Recently two of my relatives complained of the same maddening problem: They’d be typing along on their laptops when suddenly the cursor would jump, resulting in garbled text or even an unwanted ...

Generally speaking, the best way to control any personal computing device is a wired mouse. Of course, if you're using a laptop on the go, you may not have the space necessary for a mouse, assuming ...

Many Toshiba laptops feature a touchpad that you can use to control the cursor on your Windows desktop. This increases the laptop's portability because the touchpad replaces the need to connect a ...

Apple will most likely wait until the release of the next major version of Mac OS X to bring Siri to the Mac, but you can use its dictation capabilities with your Mac or PC right away using Edovia’s ...

Like most folks, I predominantly use the TouchPad on my notebook computer only to move the cursor around the screen. However, I recently discovered that this little rapscallion can do a heck of a lot ...

Learn how to create a shortcut that opens your mouse properties to the dialog that lets you change your touch pad's settings. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for ...

If for some reason your laptop touchpad responds slowly or you are experiencing delay, this post will show you how to fix touchpad delay on Windows 11/10. Among the users who experienced this issue on ...

Trackpads on laptops have essentially replaced the mouse as many users' interface tool of choice, but I've never met a touchpad I truly liked. I'd rather use a $10 mouse just about any day of the week ...

Smartphones have long been taking over the key duties of laptop and desktop computers, like checking email, browsing the web, and posting to social media. As such, some tech firms believe that when ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Hewlett-Packard Co. unveiled its first tablet computer that uses smart phone pioneer Palm's technology on Wednesday - a skinny black gadget that the companies believe will help ...

Many moons ago I wrote about TouchFreeze, a free laptop utility that solves one of life’s most maddening problems: accidental swipes of your touchpad while typing. (Why isn’t Windows smart enough to ...