![]() The body of the mouse is no longer the all plastic construction of old but now sports a brushed Aluminium base and battery cover. Like the wireless Mighty Mouse before it, communications between the mouse and the PC are done over Bluetooth. The final bonus is that the Magic Mouse now uses Laser tracking for improved accuracy on even the most stubborn surface and is apparently more frugal on battery life. It is slightly narrower and longer than its old counterpart and oh yes, it’s only available at the moment in a wireless version. The Magic Mouse then eliminates the scroll ball, also loses the side buttons as well as some weight with the old wireless Mighty Mouse (the wired version is still available and is now renamed the Apple Mouse) weighing in at 134g and the new Magic Mouse at 106g including batteries. A considerable area is sensitive as well, covering from the front edge of the mouse to an imaginary line left-to-right across the mouse roughly through the middle of the Apple logo. ![]() The application is seemingly unusual at first with the top surface of the mouse convex in shape (unlike the other multi-touch devices by Apple which are all flat) but still supporting multi-touch. The Magic Mouse borrows multi-touch technology which is now common place in other Apple products: MacBook and MacBook Pro TouchPads, iPod Touch and the iPhone. ![]() (Top Left: The Hockey Puck Mouse Top Right: The Apple Pro Mouse Bottom Left: The Mighty Mouse Bottom Right: The Magic Mouse)Īnd the stage is set for the new Magic Mouse - so named due to a copyright infringement brought against Apple for the old name Mighty Mouse. This time however there was no way to remove the ball to clean it (long a feature in ball mice) which lead many a Mac enthusiast to give up on the mouse entirely. Whilst the additional buttons were generally well received the scroll ball reintroduced the cleaning problems of ball based mice of the past and within months of use usually the scroll ball became clogged. In 2005 they tried the Mighty Mouse which added sensitivity for right-clicking and side-buttons as well as a scroll ball. It still was only one button (although the whole mouse was the button) when competing mice at the time were introducing scroll wheels and side buttons, although it had LED Optical tracking and departed from the problematic and cleaning intensive ball mice of the past. Apple came back with the Apple Pro Mouse which was a less stylish and more elongated version of the Hockey Puck in 2000. It all seemed to go off the rails for them with the “Hockey Puck” in 1998 whose round shape and size made it difficult to use (however stylish it was intended to be). When this is all done, you can tap a button on the Touch Bar and fire any Keyboard Maestro macro you desire.Apple hasn’t had the best track record in recent years for making one of the most basic of Personal Computer input devices - the humble mouse. (While in Keyboard Maestro, be sure to set the trigger for the macro to be a script.) … and then paste it into BetterTouchTool. To get that, you will need to select “Copy as UUID” in Keyboard Maestro: Where I have that placeholder text, you’ll need to paste in the UUID of the Keyboard Maestro macro you want to execute. Osascript -e 'tell application "Keyboard Maestro Engine" to do script "PLACEHOLDER"' The action you need to use is named “Execute Terminal Command (Async, non-blocking),” which makes the button fire off a script. Turns out, you can even have BetterTouchTool become a trigger for Keyboard Maestro.įirst, create a button in the Touch Bar section of BetterTouchTool, or a group that you can place buttons in, like I have: ![]() I then fired up BetterTouchTool, which among many other things, allows you to create custom UI elements on your notebook’s Touchbar, tying them to a wide range of actions. To re-use these macros on my MacBook Pro, I made a copy of them in Keyboard Maestro, which I have sync its data over Dropbox. Here’s what that looks like, with my secret URLs redacted:Īs you can see, on my Mac Pro, this is triggered by a specific button my Stream Deck, as pictured above. I’m doing this via with Keyboard Maestro, another incredibly flexible tool. The MPU page in Relay’s ad-tracking system.The Stream Deck is incredibly flexible, but one of my most common use cases is to tap a single button on it to open a bunch of related Safari tabs when it comes time to prepare for a show.įor example, if I press the button with the MPU logo, it opens these pages: As with most things, he was right about how much I would come to love it. As such, it seems wise to me to make it more useful.Ī little backstory first, though… earlier this year, David Sparks finally talked me into buying a Stream Deck to use at my desk. Love it or hate it, it seems that the Touch Bar is here to stay on the MacBook Pro. ![]()
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