Today Apple revealed the Magic Mouse — the world’s first multi-touch mouse. Inspired by the multi touch technology in the iPhone and trackpad on modern MacBooks, Magic Mouse is the zero-button, gesture-sensing, wireless pointing-device of your dreams.
Its design is quintessentially Apple. The sleek, minimal lines of Magic Mouse definitely look like something straight out of [...]
Mouse technology has advanced a lot over the past two decades. The Apple Lisa-derived mouse with its DE-9 connector and thumb screws that attached it securely to my first Mac, a 1988 Mac Plus, was a pretty crude piece of engineering, with an analog ball of course, and a noisy, long-travel, somewhat stiff single button. [...]
The Logitech V550 Nano wireless mouse is marketed as a notebook mouse, but the real story is that this is just a really superb mouse, whatever sort of computer you use it with — notebook or desktop.
I never thought I would say that about a wireless mouse, having not been a fan of wireless input [...]
I’ve mentioned this quite a few times before, but my place of employment is a Mac shop. Being a Mac shop we have dozens of Mighty “Mice” lying around. At first I did not really like the Mighty Mouse, but after using one for a few days, I came to love it. [...]
To right click on any Mac without changing any configuration:
Click “crtl+Mouse button”
A right click menu should pop up
To enable right click on an Apple desktop with an Apple mouse connected:
Go to “System Preferences”
Click “Keyboard & Mouse”
Click the “Mouse” tab
A picture of the mouse will show up. Click the drop down menu on the right [...]
I was teaching recently and blew a few kids’ minds by doing this. If you’re using a mouse with a scroll wheel, you can zoom in and out on the entire Finder by simply holding the control key (by default) and scrolling up and down. You can change the key in System Preferences if you [...]
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