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Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 09:00 pm
Apple releases Magic Mouse software updates
Today, Apple released updates for both Leopard and Snow Leopard enabling the OS to use the multi-touch capabilities of standalone versions of the Magic Mouse.The updates, which weigh in at 64 and 36 megabytes respectively, require Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard) or 10.6.1 (Snow Leopard) in order to install. Alternatively, yet to be released OS X version 10.6.2 is slated to have native Magic Mouse support and will not require this update for the multi-touch functions to work.
The Magic Mouse is included with the newly introduced iMac models. The standalone version of the mouse retails for $69.
The Magic Mouse is the world's first multi-touch enabled mouse and was introduced October 20th alongside updated iMac and MacBook models. It replaced the Mighty Mouse, which had to be renamed the Apple Mouse due to trademark issues.
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Can you do the, almost universally amongst most mice, easy task of click-locking now? No? Why not. It would be So easy to add it to the control panel. sigh...
Madge likes to be stroked with both 1 and 2 fingers. Just be careful when dragging her as she 's very skinny and can mess up your thumbs. I wanna hear some in depth user reviews on using Madge. 
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Originally Posted by xwiredtva 
Huh. It's 10:27pm on 10/27/2009 (I know right)...
Software Update is down.
Mighty Mouse was a copyright issue? I didn't think the cartoon would care.
Huh. It's 10:27pm on 10/27/2009 (I know right)...
Software Update is down.
Mighty Mouse was a copyright issue? I didn't think the cartoon would care.
The story is not quite accurate. A licensing fee would have to be paid to continue using the copyrighted name "Mighty Mouse". So, while it's true that copyright comes into play it's really a licensing issue. However, there is really no proof that the name "Mighty Mouse" was dropped due to copyright or licensing considerations.
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Originally Posted by teckstud
Just be careful when dragging her as she 's very skinny and can mess up your thumbs.
Just be careful when dragging her as she 's very skinny and can mess up your thumbs.
Plastic surgery is always an option.
Do they have the Magic Mouse available in Apple stores?
Don't know if it's in stores yet but my suite-mate just got a new iMac on my advice (my office now has 3 attorneys and one secretary with macs - not bad for the legal profession!).
The new mouse is giving me a multiple-personality disorder. Sometimes when I use it it's great. BUT . . . if my fingers are even slightly sweaty, or I just put down a drink with condensation (coca-cola etc) I can't execute any of the gestures on it. My fingers stick to the plastic. It's almost as if they need a Teflon coating instead of plastic.
I really want to like the mouse, but am having issues with it, in short.
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Originally Posted by Crimguy
Don't know if it's in stores yet but my suite-mate just got a new iMac on my advice (my office now has 3 attorneys and one secretary with macs - not bad for the legal profession!).
The new mouse is giving me a multiple-personality disorder. Sometimes when I use it it's great. BUT . . . if my fingers are even slightly sweaty, or I just put down a drink with condensation (coca-cola etc) I can't execute any of the gestures on it. My fingers stick to the plastic. It's almost as if they need a Teflon coating instead of plastic.
I really want to like the mouse, but am having issues with it, in short.
Don't know if it's in stores yet but my suite-mate just got a new iMac on my advice (my office now has 3 attorneys and one secretary with macs - not bad for the legal profession!).
The new mouse is giving me a multiple-personality disorder. Sometimes when I use it it's great. BUT . . . if my fingers are even slightly sweaty, or I just put down a drink with condensation (coca-cola etc) I can't execute any of the gestures on it. My fingers stick to the plastic. It's almost as if they need a Teflon coating instead of plastic.
I really want to like the mouse, but am having issues with it, in short.
Interesting problem... just like what happens with the iPod touch with sweat or slight amounts of oil on the fingertips.
Let's face it, touch is a bit of a fad and Apple's the best purveyor of the fad so far. Touch is not the answer to everything, and this too, shall pass.
A little magic mushroom for the Magic Mouse? 
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Originally Posted by SpamSandwich
Let's face it, touch is a bit of a fad and Apple's the best purveyor of the fad so far. Touch is not the answer to everything, and this too, shall pass.
Let's face it, touch is a bit of a fad and Apple's the best purveyor of the fad so far. Touch is not the answer to everything, and this too, shall pass.
I don't think it's a fad, just early in the development curve. (You're not suggesting going back to a mechanical ball, are you?)
I'm actually surprised how long the bloody Qwerty keyboard has persisted. Future generations will look back on us and think we had no imagination for the past hundred years.
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Huh. It's 10:27pm on 10/27/2009 (I know right)...
Software Update is down.
Mighty Mouse was a copyright issue? I didn't think the cartoon would care.