Are you looking for a way to help your Touchpad computer make you more productive?
Heres a quick look at Scrybe, a new software from Synaptics that lets you superpower it.
Touchpad devices have become increasingly interesting as theyve included support for multi-touch gestures.
Scrybe takes it to the next level and lets you use your touchpad as an utility launcher.
Scrybe works with most modern Synaptics touchpads, which are standard on most laptops and netbooks.
It is optimized for newer multi-touch touchpads, but can also work with standard single-touch touchpads.
Get Started With Scrybe
Head over to the Scrybe website and download the latest version (link below).
Click Download when finished.
trigger the installer when its download.
It will automatically download the latest Synaptics driver for your touchpad and any other components needed for Scrybe.
Note that the Scrybe installer will ask to implement the Yahoo!
toolbar, so uncheck this to avoid adding this worthless surfing app toolbar.
The input pane shows some default gestures you’re able to try.
Here we drew an M, which opens our default Music player.
A notification balloon will let you know what gesture was preformed.
When youre entering your gesture, the input pane will show white ink.
The ink will turn blue if the command is recognized, but will turn red if it isnt.
If Scrybe doesnt recognize your command, press 3 fingers and loop back and try.
Scrybe has many pre-configured gestures that you could preview and even practice.
All of the gestures in the Popular tab are preset and cannot be changed.
However, the ones in the favorites tab can be edited.
pick the gesture you wish to edit, and tap the gear icon to change it.
Here we changed the email gesture to open Hotmail instead of the default Yahoo Mail.
Scrybe can also help you perform many common Windows commands such as Copy and Undo.
snag the Tools tab to see all of these commands.
Scrybe has many options you may wish to change.
go for the Preferences button in the Control Panel to change these.
Heres some of the controls we changed.
kick off the Scrybe control panel, and nudge the plus sign on the bottom left corner.
Enter a name for your gesture, and then choose if it is for a website or an utility.
If you want the gesture to open a website, enter the address in the box.
Conclusion
If you enjoy multi-touch gestures, you may find Scrybe very useful on your laptop or netbook.
Scrybe recognizes gestures fairly easily, even if you dont enter them perfectly correctly.
Just like pinch-to-zoom and two-finger scroll, Scrybe can quickly become something you miss on other laptops.
Download Scrybe (registration required)
