Accumulative Effect

The rants of Ashley Angell. Developer, Geek and Husband and Father.

Apple’s Magic Mouse Now Running Properly Under Windows

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Ash

As I’ve indicated earlier, I am a massive fan of Apple’s Magic Mouse. While it does carry a heavy price tag, I thought it was completely worth it. But a sad draw-back was that under Windows (pecicially Boot Camp), the mouse only works as a standard 2 button mouse.

But thanks to a little hackery from Apple’s Bluetooth Update (located here) the Magic Mouses driver was extracted via WinRar resulting in a 32bit version and a 64bit version that you can install on any ordinary Windows PC that will enable all the scrolling ‘magic’ of the Magic Mouse.

MagicPrefs – Making the Magic Mouse Even More Magical

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Ash

MagicPrefs is a free menubar application which aims to improve the functionality and configuration options of the Apple Magic Mouse.

It features the ability to bind a variable number of finger clicks, taps, swipes, pinch and other gestures to functions like Middle Click , Hold Down Both Mouse Buttons , Spaces , Expose, Dashboard etc.
Touch Sensitivity implements a single point control for a number of factors impacting the algorithms of the taps, swipes, pinche and other gestures.
Tracking Speed adds the ability to increase the maximum mouse speed by a extra 200%.
Also featured is a real-time display of the fingers touching the surface of the mouse that you can enable to test

You can download it, here for free.

(Via Gizmodo)