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.

By 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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