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Dictate to Your Mac Using Siri and TouchPad

Posted November 30, 2011 at 3:24am by iClarified · 8541 views
Edovia has released an update to TouchPad that lets you dictate to your Mac using Siri.

Tired of having a keyboard and mouse laying around in your living room? Get rid of that lousy setup with TouchPad! Use your iOS device to remotely control your computer through WiFi. With TouchPad's intuitive use, you'll feel right at home if you have already used a track pad on a MacBook. It's almost like having a micro laptop in your hands!

FEATURES:
• Super-easy setup,
• Configurable Multi-touch gestures,
• Media controller for all major software (Front Row, QuickTime, VLC, WMP, Boxee, etc.),
• Drag files, windows, text, etc.,
• Use the iPhone 4S keyboard Siri button to dictate sentences and send them to your computer.

What's New In This Version:
- Modifiers toolbar now always visible
- More media players
- Use the Siri key on your device keyboard to send text to your computer
- Many new shortcuts (see 3 and 4 finger gestures in documentation)

- Improved support for international keyboards
- Improved help documentation
- Improved screen zooming gesture

- Many bug fixes
- Many performance improvements

**If you have a Mac or use Linux, no additional software is required on your computer. TouchPad connects through Screen Sharing, which is part of OS X and most Linux distributions. Windows users can download a free VNC server such as TightVNC which is highly recommended.

You can purchase TouchPad from the App Store for $4.99.

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