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You can take my Magic Mouse when you pry it from my cold dead hand. That said, regarding the geek fascination with multi-button mics - IMO Apple got it right w

You can take my Magic Mouse when you pry it from my cold dead hand. That said, regarding the geek fascination with multi-button mics - IMO Apple got it right with one-button (and pseudo-one button like the Magic Mouse & Might Mouse) mice. Yes, you guys/gals can handle multi-button mice. I can handle multi-button mice. But I've witnessed far too many people (even today!) who have a hard time distinguishing between right/lift clicking. Add to that the propensity of many Windows-software authors to provide options that can only be accessed via right-click (some Mac software does this also, but IME much less than Windows software) and you have a recipe for confusion. Provide one-button mics for everyone and allow advanced users to upgrade to multi-button mice (which is what the Magic/Mighty mice do without having to buy additional hardware) is a good compromise IMO.

city41 16y ago
I agree with this. The turning point for me was when I first taught my Mom how to use a computer. Two buttons on the mouse was probably her biggest hurdle.
marknutter 16y ago
Have you tried Better Touch Tool (http://blog.boastr.net/ http://blog.boastr.net/)? If not, you really should.
- weaksauce 16y ago
  An alternate that I like is magicprefs for the middle mouse button click and coupled with jitouch for the tap and swipe gestures. I LOVE IT!
  - Anechoic 16y ago
    Dammit! I tried magicprefs and the first thing it did was change the mouse acceleration curve to something more Windows-like. Into the trash it goes...
    - weaksauce 16y ago
      Apple disabled mucking around with the acceleration curves if I recall correctly. The only thing that they do that is different than the normal mouse prefs is allow you to change the speed of the mouse to a super fast rate which minimizes the effect of the acceleration curve. Try slowing the mouse pointer speed down and see if it is normal.
      - Anechoic 16y ago
        I played around with it a bit and couldn't find a tracking speed that I was comfortable with. I also remember that (supposedly) Apple removed the acceleration curve API but some sites (including http://osxdaily.com/2010/08/25/mouse-acceleration/ http://osxdaily.com/2010/08/25/mouse-acceleration/) seem to suggest that it can be turned off. At this point I'm not going to waste the time to figure it out.
        weaksauce 16y ago
        fair enough. you should do the jitouch thing though as that is such a win for gestures I was looking for this exact thing. If it did the middle mouse click it would be all that I need.
        weaksauce 16y ago
        The fact that it disables itself sometimes after waking the computer up from sleep drives me crazy though. I wish the jitouch people would fix this.

city41 16y ago

I agree with this. The turning point for me was when I first taught my Mom how to use a computer. Two buttons on the mouse was probably her biggest hurdle.

marknutter 16y ago

Have you tried Better Touch Tool (http://blog.boastr.net/ http://blog.boastr.net/)? If not, you really should.

weaksauce 16y ago
An alternate that I like is magicprefs for the middle mouse button click and coupled with jitouch for the tap and swipe gestures. I LOVE IT!
- Anechoic 16y ago
  Dammit! I tried magicprefs and the first thing it did was change the mouse acceleration curve to something more Windows-like. Into the trash it goes...
  - weaksauce 16y ago
    Apple disabled mucking around with the acceleration curves if I recall correctly. The only thing that they do that is different than the normal mouse prefs is allow you to change the speed of the mouse to a super fast rate which minimizes the effect of the acceleration curve. Try slowing the mouse pointer speed down and see if it is normal.
    - Anechoic 16y ago
      I played around with it a bit and couldn't find a tracking speed that I was comfortable with. I also remember that (supposedly) Apple removed the acceleration curve API but some sites (including http://osxdaily.com/2010/08/25/mouse-acceleration/ http://osxdaily.com/2010/08/25/mouse-acceleration/) seem to suggest that it can be turned off. At this point I'm not going to waste the time to figure it out.
      - weaksauce 16y ago
        fair enough. you should do the jitouch thing though as that is such a win for gestures I was looking for this exact thing. If it did the middle mouse click it would be all that I need.
        weaksauce 16y ago
        The fact that it disables itself sometimes after waking the computer up from sleep drives me crazy though. I wish the jitouch people would fix this.