For Christmas, one of the gifts I received was Apple’s new magic mouse, which you can buy here. I absolutely love this thing. The Magic Mouse is the total revamp of Apple’s previous Mighty Mouse. Apple has take multi touch technology and placed it in this mouse. The entire top of the mouse is one big touch pad that can accept multiple gestures.
There is one glaring problem with the new Magic Mouse, which is the fact that Apple decided to not build any extended functionality into the multi touch surface. The only thing it allows you to do is flick up and down, which represents scrolling and two finger swipe right and left which cycles forward and backward in your browser. With such a powerful piece of hardware, I wonder why they made the software so limited.
Alas, all is not lost. Some awesome developers came up with Magic Prefs. Magic Prefs allows all the functionality that the Magic Mouse was built for. Pinch to zoom, three finger click for expose, and much more is now available if you install Magic Prefs (shown below). With this software, the Magic Mouse has become the best mouse on the market. It has become the standard for all other mouse makers to be compared to, just like the iPhone did to the mobile phone market. If you don’t already have the Magic Mouse, I definitely suggest getting it.
