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Is your laptop touchpad lagging, clicking on its own or refusing to work? These simple Windows settings and tools can help ...

Although the touchpad on an Asus laptop can be useful for clicking, scrolling and selecting content, it can be a nuisance if you're using an external wired or wireless mouse. If you're a business ...

The touchpad or trackpad on a laptop keyboard is convenient to use when you're on the road or sitting in a tight space. Those tiny tables in coffee shops and airports don't leave a lot of room for a ...

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ASUS was rather cryptic about this little peripheral with its "It'll move you" teaser, but now we get it. Dubbed the VivoMouse, ASUS claims this to be the world's first mouse-and-touchpad hybrid, and ...

A good notebook computer needs a good touchpad, but some folks prefer a mouse. Foxconn has a possible solution for people that don’t want to carry a separate mouse: a touchpad that you can eject from ...

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 ...

CheerTok is a new multifunctional pocket touchpad, air mouse, presenter and shortcut controller that has raised over $250,000 via Kickstarter thanks to nearly 5,000 backers. The CheerTok offers ...

Microsoft changed Windows for the better when it introduced trackpad gestures in Windows 8. The new gestures made controlling your PC a far more fluid experience, helping you get things done more ...

This is the Gigabyte Aivia Xenon TouchPad mouse in trackpad mode, almost like a laptop touchpad in operation. You can read ...

Even people who don't like mouse touchpads like the MacBook's mouse touchpad. Beyond the iPhone-friendly features, it's probably the thing I miss most about my MacBook during my ongoing experiment ...