I’ve had the mouse for over a day now and here are some of my thoughts on it.
The original settings that come with the mouse are ridiculously shit and not very well thought out. For example, there’s no middle click. The sensitivity settings for the tracking don’t go high enough and it’s very limited in functionality – really, this magnificent bit of hardware with massive potential had been reduced to a simple buttonless mouse. Kinda going backwards, don’t ya think?
I immediately installed bettertouchtool and started tweaking settings. I can now say that the magic mouse is pretty awesome.
Here’s a list of things I changed:
1. Left click is now 3-finger click. Why? When I use a mouse, my hand is usually resting completely on the mouse, which means all fingers are on the mouse. Setting left-click to left-click involved lifting my middle finger in order to click, which ended up getting tiring.
2. Right click is now 2-finger click. Same reason, now when I want to right click, I just lift my index finger.
3. Middle click is single click – but only from the middle to right of the mouse. The range for the middle click was too small so I decided to completely remove single right click (hence 2 finger right click) and now it works pretty well. No more missing middle click range.
4. 3-finger-swipe-up brings up my “alt-tab”.
5. 3-finger-swipe-down brings up finder.
6. 3-finger-swipe-right goes next in iTunes – from any program
7. 3-finger-swipe-left goes previous in iTunes.
8. Pinch zoom works like it does on an iPhone in Preview
9. 2 button tap makes movies play in Quicktime
10. 3 button tap makes Quicktime go full screen
11. Pinch zoom outwards selects all in Finder
12. Pinch zoom inwards resizes pictures to make them smaller in Finder <-- I thought this was pretty cool/geeky
So yeah it works pretty well right now. If you combine it with Quicksilver, you can pretty much set any keyboard shortcut to any recognised gesture… see this is the kind of potential the mouse has, yet wasn’t given.
- Matt
PS. Thanks to Stuart Atchison for the mouse – was a christmas present!