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The iPad’s strength is in its adaptability. Adding true mouse support will only add to its power. Apple Today's Best Tech Deals Picked by Macworld's Editors Top Deals On Great Products Picked by Techconnect's Editors The report that real, Mac-style cursor support is coming to the iPad is sure to…

By Malcolm Owen Tuesday, March 10, 2020, 09:21 am PT (12:21 pm ET) A future keyboard for a Mac may offer touch-sensitive keys on top of mechanical switches, a feature that could effectively turn the keyboard surface into a simulated trackpad. The design of the MacBook Pro and other notebooks…

Visualizing an action in the moments just before it takes place may influence learning, a new study suggests. We’ve all heard the saying: “Practice makes perfect.” But the new research into the neurological process of learning how to move suggests that it might be more accurate to say “mindful practice…

According to a report from 9to5mac, Apple could be working on full cursor support for the next major version of iOS and iPadOS. The report is based on code of an early version of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14.If Apple ships that new feature, it means that you’ll be able…

By Malcolm Owen Monday, March 09, 2020, 11:10 am PT (02:10 pm ET) The iPad's existing mouse support could be further built out in iOS 14 and iPadOS 14, with code references strongly suggesting Apple will be increasing support for the peripherals in the next major release of the mobile…

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Today is a busy day for iOS 14 leaks. And now we have yet another detail, this time regarding mouse cursor support.Apple introduced mouse support with iOS 13/iPadOS last year, but the feature is basically a technicality. It’s available in the Accessibility settings, and while it works well enough, it’s…

Did you know that you can easily control and navigate your Mac hands-free with a cursor that follows your eyes? In this step–by-step tutorial, we’re going to teach you how control the Mac cursor with head movement and adjust the available head-tracking options to your liking.Controlling the Mac cursor with…

Eli Bendersky recently blogged about debugging Clojure code. His post is worth reading, and shows how to read stacktraces and add instrumentation for tracing. In this blog post I am going to debug his example program without using such tooling, relying only on the rapid feedback loop provided by the…

Landing just in time for GNOME 3.36 is a merge request that has been open for nearly one year on improving Mutter's hardware cursor handling. Hitting Mutter today ahead of GNOME 3.36 is support for scaling and transforming cursor images with Cairo and using hardware cursors on rotated or fractionally…