Oh! Oh! It's Magic for Macs - The UpStream

Oh! Oh! It's Magic for Macs

posted Tuesday Nov 24, 2009 by Jon Wurm

Oh! Oh! It's Magic for Macs

Odds are if you're an Apple fan that usually does not include being a fan of the oddly shaped and otherwise lacking mouse. That is about to change by way of some Apple branded magic that is long overdue. The Magic Mouse ditches the old Apple style of form over function, mostly. The mouse uses touch gestures to determine what you want to do. Swiping up and down will activate the up and down scroll functions in programs and web browsers. Swiping two fingers side to side in Safari will take you backwards or forwards through your webpages as well as flip through photos in the Mac OS X Preview App. Not to worry though if Safari isn't your thing there is a hack for Firefox that will let you switch between tabs like never before (without using the keyboard).

The Mighty Mouse is an optical mouse which is another plus and optical mice have been around forever so it's good that Apple is starting to take advantage of them. Watch out Mac users if Apple keeps this type of innovation up I might even own one again some day.

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