Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" ...

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 ...

The touchpad is an essential component of your Windows laptop, and it can be difficult to get much done if it suddenly stops working — especially if you're not familiar with common Windows keyboard ...

Apple released its Magic Trackpad in July 2010 but it wasn't until the release of Lion a year later with its support for multi-touch gestures borrowed from iOS that the device really came into its own ...

Before Windows 7’s arrival, touchscreen support wasn’t part of the Windows operating system itself. Instead, all-in-one PC vendors resorted to stopgaps ranging from elegant (HP’s growing TouchSmart ...

Is your laptop touchpad too hot to touch? You can drastically reduce the temperature by dropping the max processor state and ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Logitech has taken a page from Apple by offering its own version of the Magic Trackpad, but designed for Windows PCs. The device is simply ...