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A wireless mouse sold by Apple. It features a touch-sensitive surface, which allows certain gestures to be performed, such as scrolling.

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How to enable the "middle" button of Apple's new Magic Mouse?

The Magic Mouse seems to be a vast improvement over the old Mighty Mouse after using it for a few hours. However, I just discovered that there seems to be no way to execute a "middle" click. I use middle-click all the time to open Safari windows in…
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Does Apple Magic Mouse fully work on Windows 7 x86/x64?

I would like to know if Apple Magic Mouse works on Windows 7 (x86/x64) on non-Apple computers. Here are some checklists: x64 compatibility left click right click middle button? vertical scroll horizontal scroll bind additional gestures to…
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Magic Mouse scrolling on Windows 8

I've managed to get the mouse detected and the general clicking and mouse moving functionality works fine, but no scrolling, nor gestures? I'm unsure if gestures are supported, if not that's completely fine. But does anyone know how to get the…
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Apple Magic Mouse scrolling in Ubuntu 9.10

Just received new Apple Magic Mouse and tried to install it on my computer with Ubuntu 9.10. Mouse was found as Bluetooth mouse, I entered PIN as 0000 (could not find it in user manual, so just googgled it). Now I have 2 buttons working well - left…
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Magic Mouse: Turn it into a touchpad

Does anyone know of a program or utility that will turn my Magic Mouse into a touchpad (I'm running OS 10.5.8)? That is, with the nice multi-touch surface, why not just use all of the MacBook gestures (most importantly moving the pointer and…
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Disable magic mouse back-forward gesture only in XCODE

Is it possible to disable magic mouse back-forward gesture only in XCODE? While in browser it is fine, in XCODE it just totaly unwanted feature for me.
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Magic Mouse on Windows Vista machine

i just got a magic mouse for my vista basic dell laptop. i installed the 32bit driver for it by following uneasysilence instruction. i have basic functions like left and right click. i read some comments on uneasysilence. it appears that some…
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Swap left/right click on OS X via terminal

I'm looking for a way to swap the left/right button on my mouse (left/right handed person) via the Terminal. Currently every time I want to switch this I need to go to System Preferences » Mouse » Change the option for Secondary click. It would be…
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What is causing spurious mouse wheel events using Magic Mouse in applications?

I recently switched to using an Apple Magic Mouse and have found that I am getting spurious mouse wheel events (mouse-5) when moving the mouse intermittently. I've seen this in Chicken of the VNC. With my fingers lightly resting on the mouse edges,…
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Mac OS X - Magic Mouse - increasing the scroll speed

I have a Magic Mouse on my iMac and I am using BetterTouchTool. How do I increase the scrolling speed? I want to scroll more swiping smaller distances... I want to set the scrolling more than the maximum possible at the preference values. Probably I…
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Magic mouse momentum scrolling on Windows 7 bootcamp

I have my Magic Mouse and I've gotten it working with Windows 7. Left and right click works as well as scrolling. Now I want smooth/inertial scrolling as well as middle click. Is it possible? Also, is there a way to imitate the ability in OSX to…
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Apple Magic Mouse on Ubuntu - slow scrolling

I have an Apple Magic Mouse installed and working with Ubuntu 10.10 x86 on a Dell laptop. The problem is that vertical scrolling is very slow in Gnome. A flick of the finger only scrolls a little bit. I want the fast hyperscroll action I get with…
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Why has my zoom feature stopped working in OSX 10.6?

For the life of me I can't get the zoom feature to work on OSX 10.6 on my Max Mini. It's a fresh install, I have the wireless mighty mouse with the small grey scroll ball and the small wireless Apple metal keyboard. I've tried enabling "Zoom using…
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Windows 8 gestures with apple magic mouse

I want to be able to use Windows 8 Gestures with apple magic mouse, is it possible? I tried to find some clue but unable to get any... Can we use touch surface on mouse as touch pad maybe?
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Where can I download Windows driver for Magic Mouse?

Uneasysilence.com seems to have removed the driver from their site. Does anyone know here I can get the driver now?
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