Hacker News
- Show HN: Little Finger, a library to add a kill switch to your mobile apps http://avi.im/little-finger/ 5 comments
- Robot With Long Finger Wants to Touch Your iPhone Apps http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/08/tapster/ 6 comments
- Fingers Crossed: Google Voice May Be Returning To The App Store http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/09/google-voice-iphone/ 4 comments
- iFart And Pull My Finger Battle To Stink Up The App Store. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/12/ifart-and-pull-my-finger-battle-to-stink-up-the-app-store-please-let-it-stop-here/ 4 comments
- The first two fingers controlled virtual pen drawing app for smartphones https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qp2qp 4 comments
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- Little Finger, a library to add a kill switch to your mobile apps http://avi.im/little-finger/ 4 comments android , ios , show
- App hack: when you want to move apps to another screen just swipe with a finger that isn't holding down the app icon. https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/7oi1i4/app_hack_when_you_want_to_move_apps_to_another/ 329 comments apple
- If you 3D Touch and slide your finger left and right on a photo on the Facebook app you can scroll through the whole album. https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/4z01b5/if_you_3d_touch_and_slide_your_finger_left_and/ 8 comments apple
- The icon for this app looks somehow familiar.. I can't quite put my finger on it. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/color-accent/id453170202?mt=8 10 comments apple
- Biometric and App Logins Will Soon Be Pushed Across the Web - "Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla are supporting WebAuthn...People everywhere are already using their fingers and faces to ‘unlock’ their mobile phones and PCs, so this will be natural to them..." https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xkvb3/webauthn-google-chrome-microsoft-edge-mozilla-firefox 2 comments privacy
- Creating some awesome touchscreen apps by determining what part of a finger users are using to touch the screen using machine learning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmvg93dqxdm?t=2m12s 3 comments compsci
- The Middle Finger Emoji Could Land You in Jail in the UAE - Using middle finger emojis & “insulting words” on apps can result in jail or deportation. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-middle-finger-emoji-could-land-you-in-jail-in-the-uae 39 comments worldnews
- Apes With Apps -- "Sitting with his Motorola Xoom tablet, he’s rapt, his dark eyes fixed on the images, fingers pecking away at the touch screen." Teco can't speak - he's an ape - but he's building a vocabulary of thousands of words http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/apes-with-apps/0 697 comments science
- [DeRoos] Cavs fans going to the opener will receive a silicon band to put on finger. When looking at band through their phone using the Cavs app they will see a virtual ring. https://mobile.twitter.com/danderoos19/status/789650946657755136 270 comments nba
- Strava unveiled a handy beta feature it calls Route Builder for Mobile. The tool, which lives inside the Strava app, is purpose-built for smartphones and makes finding new routes as simple as tracing your finger over a map: Just draw where you want to go and it spits out a route. https://www.wired.com/story/strava-route-builder-for-mobile/ 23 comments bicycling
- Qantas 737 “tailstrike” was caused by iPad data entry fail. Copilot fat-fingered "6" instead of "7" on iPad app used to calculate takeoff speed. As a result, the plane didn't have quite enough thrust to clear the runway without clipping the ground with its tail. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/11/qantas-737-tailstrike-was-caused-by-ipad-data-entry-fail/ 28 comments technology