Enabling additional multi-touch gestures on the Apple Magic Mouse

Apple’s new Magic Mouse features multi-touch technology that allows you to scroll, swipe or click from anywhere on its surface and improves upon many of the flaws the Mighty Mouse suffered from.

mighty-mouse-bettertouchtoolBy default the Magic Mouse offers only basic multi-touch functionality, but the free BetterTouchTool menubar plugin adds a menubar item to your Mac that will let you define additional custom commands such as:

  • zooming in and out by pinching
  • tip-tapping (tapping on the left, then the right side of the mouse)
  • two-finger swiping up, down, left, and right
  • three-finger swiping up, down, left, and right
  • single-finger tapping (anywhere, left, or right)
  • two-finger tapping
  • two-finger clicking
  • three-finger tapping
  • three-finger clicking

If your MacBook or MacBook Pro features a multi-touch trackpad, BetterTouchTool will let you define custom gestures for that too.

BetterTouchTool can be downloaded here.

 

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