{"id":330,"date":"2009-11-02T20:53:17","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T19:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.blackdown.de\/?p=330"},"modified":"2016-10-29T03:51:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T01:51:00","slug":"thoughts-on-apples-magic-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackdown.de\/articles\/thoughts-on-apples-magic-mouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Apple&#8217;s Magic Mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few random thoughts on Apple&#8217;s new multi-touch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/magicmouse\/\">Magic Mouse<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apple killed the third mouse button!  I am conditioned to open tabs in browsers with the a middle click, so this is quite some problem for me.  (I still hoped for an Open-in-a-New-Tab gesture for Apple&#8217;s touch pads but I guess it is unlikely now.)<\/li>\n<li>You have to press down the entire mouse to generate a click.  Not really new but on this mouse I instinctively try to use Tap-to-Click like on a touch pad.  It just does not work that way.  Bummer.<\/li>\n<li>Right click still requires you to lift your left finger like with the <em>Mighty Mouse<\/em>.  This requires some time to get used to and also means that it is impossible to press both &#8220;buttons&#8221; at the same time.<\/li>\n<li>Scrolling with one finger works fine but touch pad conditioning kicks in again here: I tend to try scrolling with two fingers.<\/li>\n<li>There are no gestures for Expos\u00e9 and Spaces.  Would have been nice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And it is flat.  Almost too flat for my hands.<br \/>\nMy conclusion is that Apple can always come up with interesting mouse concepts but still fails at actually building usable mice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few random thoughts on Apple&#8217;s new multi-touch Magic Mouse: Apple killed the third mouse button! I am conditioned to open tabs in browsers with the a middle click, so this is quite some problem for me. 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