Let your fingers do the working Review You've got to hand it to Apple. While it may not be the innovator it likes to think it is, it does have a knack for re-inventing old ideas and coming up with something better. Music players, small form-factor computers, tablet PCs - it's taken existing concepts and given them a major makeover.…
Apple’s long history of design consolidation is obvious at every level, from the no-button Magic Mouse and Trackpad, to the adoption of MiniDisplayPort, to the iPhone’s iconic home button. But Cupertino doesn’t want to stop there: a new patent filing, Apple is now exploring ways to combine the headphone jack with the microphone on their [...]
You can confide in me if the thought of a fawn and duck-egg blue Magic Trackpad gets you hot. I won’t tell anyone. Least of all your bank-manager, who’d be pretty pissed at you spending $US75 on a paint job. [ColorWare]
Apple Magic Trackpad Review is a post from Chris Pirillo Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Apple’s Magic Trackpad is definitely magical. It made some money disappear from my wallet faster than you can count it out. Show More Summary
ColorWare has added the Magic Trackpad to the long list of Apple products it can chromatically customize to your heart's liking.
There’s not a gadget under the sun that the chroma-crazy lads over at ColorWare won’t slather in Pantone hues if you pay them enough money, alleviating the necessity of the Mac-loving hockey fan from trying to turn his iMac into as gaudy a display of team pride as his torso and face with the help [...]
Think that Apple's recently-announced Magic Trackpad is a little too boring for your tastes? The folks over at ColorWare are here to help you out again, and this time they're offering to customize your Magic Trackpad with different colors for $75. Show More Summary
You can confide in me if the thought of a fawn and duck-egg blue Magic Trackpad gets you hot. I won't tell anyone. Least of all your bank-manager, who'd be pretty pissed at you spending $75 on a paint-job. [ColorWare] More »
Look: if you want an all-red Magic Trackpad, we can't and won't judge you. We can, however, judge you for spending $145 for the privilege of getting it. Like clockwork, custom paint job guru ColorWare has just flipped the switch on Magic...Show More Summary
One modder turned their wireless Magic Trackpad into a wired model with a little help from a wooden dowel. Universal Serial Bus - Magictrackpad - Performing Arts - Apple - Magic
The Magic Trackpad is a fantastic addition to a desktop, but it’s insistence on being battery powered is a little strange. For most users, it’ll never leave their desk, yet there’s no USB option, unlike Apple’s own keyboards; additionally, unlike the Magic Mouse, where a cable would limit its effective range, the Magic Trackpad is [...]
While many hacks we feature on these virtual pages are terrifyingly complex, this one is anything but. Even more surprising, it's actually useful. Mark Bog decided to tether his Magic Trackpad to the sweet, endless power supply of his computer over USB, instead of swapping out AAs endlessly. Show More Summary
I get it, Magic Trackpad. You don’t want any gaudy cords messing up the smooth lines of your industrial design. But some of us prefer USB power over batteries – and we will not be denied. (more…)
Jitouch lets you configure up to 31 different trackpad gestures and 19 different Magic Mouse gestures.
I get it, Magic Trackpad. You don't want any gaudy cords messing up the smooth lines of your industrial design. But some of us prefer USB power over batteries—and we will not be denied. More »
While many folks would love to have all their gadgets be wireless, there's no denying that it can be irritating to have to replace the batteries every now and then. Obviously the creator of this hack felt the same way, as he decidedShow More Summary
Don't tell the rabid Apple freaks, but the Magic Trackpad is flawed. Really, it is. There is no reason why it should be AA-powered only. An USB option would be awful nice seeing as it might never leave some users desks. But you know what they say, necessity is the mother of innovation. Show More Summary
[Mark Bog] thought it was a waste to use batteries for his desktop touch pad. Quite frankly we agree that if you can avoid using disposable cells you should. He ditched the dual AA batteries inside of his Magic Trackpad and built a battery-sized adapter to feed it some juice. It consists of a dowel [...]
Three weeks into using Apple’s Magic Trackpad, there’s some good news and not so good news to share as an update to my earlier articles on both the Trackpad and the Apple Battery Charger. The good news: my “early hands-on” left open the possibility that the initially good accessory could come to feel great, and it did. Show More Summary
A clever modder has mashed up MacBook Air internals with Apple keyboard parts and a Magic Trackpad to make a "keyboard computer" that runs Mac OS X.
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