Drawing on the iPad
Making the iPad Pro feel like paper will take more than a screen protector
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A new Kickstarter claims to help improve the feel of Pencil on your iPad Pro, but it’s a quick fix to a bigger problem.
Taptic Engine
Taptic AF
Nintendo, Apple and forcing the future of tactile feedback
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Apple's iPhone 7 made haptics exciting. Now Nintendo's Switch Joy-Con is making it fun. So, what happens next?
Secret shortcuts
Twelve Taptic tricks for your new MacBook!
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What can you do with a ForceTouch Trackpad? Here are all the secrets!
Mastering Force Touch
Force Touch Trackpad for Mac: Ultimate guide
How do you set up, customize, and use Apple's Force Touch Trackpad on Mac? Like this!
Click. Click. Boom.
iPhone 7's secret weapon: The new Taptic Engine
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Once upon a time you had to give up tactility to get adaptability. Now iPhone 7 and the new Taptic Engine bring you both.
Change is inevitable
NSFW: Learning and unlearning, Taptic panic
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Something interesting happened to me this past year: My Mac ceased to have any use for me as a document scanner. The iPhone took it over. Now, in fairness, I don't do any really high-resolution scanning. For me scanning is pure utility: Needing to legibly digitize real-world documents. But it's an evolution. And so much of how we use our devices is about evolution. Even a couple of...
Tap out
Apple Watch supplier allegedly experiencing Taptic trouble
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The Taptic Engine is what Apple uses to power the the tap-like haptics in the Apple Watch and MacBook. According to a report, one of the two suppliers of the part for Apple Watch is facing quality control issues resulting in manufacturing defects — Taptic Engines that rapidly stop producing haptic feedback. Time was I'd link to reports like these from major business publications...
Mastering Force Click
How to adjust Force Click firmness on OS X
By default, Force Click requires a "medium" level of intensity to activate. Apple gives you the option, however, of switching to "light", which makes it easier to engage, or "firm", which requires you to put even more muscle behind it. Whether you're having a hard time triggering Force Click, or you're triggering by mistake, there's likely a setting that's perfect for you.
Experts
The science behind Force Touch and the Taptic Engine
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The Taptic Engine is Apple's new brand name for their haptic feedback mechanism in their new devices, including the Apple Watch and the new MacBook. The whole assembly is made up of two things, a force sensor and a lateral vibrator. It is able to provide haptic feedback which is able to trick your fingers into feeling different textures through different oscillation settings. To...
Multi-touch Tactile Keyboard for iTablet -- Apple Patent Watch
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AppleInsider has come across an interesting patent from Apple, titled "Keystroke Tactility Arrangement on a Smooth Touch Surface that details a multi-touch tactile keyboard for an iTablet-like device: "The articulating frame may provide key edge ridges that define the boundaries of the key regions or may provide tactile feedback mechanisms within the key regions. The articulating...