Apple recently brought Multi-Touch™ gestures to the desktop with their revolutionary Magic Mouse, the world’s first Multi-Touch™ mouse.
The Multi-Touch™ area covers the top surface of Magic Mouse, and the laser tracking mouse itself is the button. Scroll in any direction with one finger, swipe through web pages and photos with two, and click and double-click anywhere. Inside Magic Mouse is a chip that tells it exactly what you want to do. Which means Magic Mouse won’t confuse a scroll with a swipe. It even knows when you’re just resting your hand on it.
When you use gestures, it’s as if you’re touching what’s on your screen. For instance, swiping through web pages in Safari gives you the feeling of flicking through pages in a magazine. And scrolling with Magic Mouse isn’t your everyday scrolling. It supports momentum scrolling (similar to iPhone and iPod touch), where the scrolling speed is dictated by how fast or slowly you perform the gesture.
And while Magic Mouse comes standard with every new iMac, you can also add it to any Bluetooth-enabled Mac for a Multi-Touch makeover.
Until now, Magic Mouse was Mac-only, but UNEASYsilence has performed a little hackery on Apple’s most-recent Bluetooth Update, extracting Apple’s Magic Mouse driver via WinRar which resulted in 32-bit and 64-bit versions that you can install on any ordinary Windows PC to enable all the Multi-Touch™ magic of Apple’s revolutionary Magic Mouse.
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thats awesome! now we can swipe through our blue screens!
Another Apple Trojan Horse to draw in Windows users.
wonder if they added pinch zoom to it, i’d bet they did
that’d be some nice mockery
and when the window wipers start complaining that there are issues of sorts they might wanna think different ( like they can…right) and
just get a Mac
Leave it to hackers to improve Windows functionality.
Why are these windows jerks not able to develop their own cool stuff? Their tactic of choice is apparently to let others (i.e. Apple) innovate while they simply steal the goodies.
I’ve always associated ‘pinch’ and ‘swipe’ with Windows so I see nothing new here.
Hacked drivers?
Guess I misunderstood….
Nice to have it on Windows side too…
But, why Windows user needs a mouse anymore while they can uses the Gorilla-Arms on their lovely touch screen and leaving their fingerprints all over.
Look up the definition of lipstick on a pig in Google and they show a magic mouse in front of an all-in-one Dell POS.
“Look up the definition of lipstick on a pig in Google and they show a magic mouse in front of an all-in-one Dell POS.”
Don’t look up that definition in Bing.
They show a picture of Ballmer putting on lipstick.
Did we ever forsee the day that someone would take a Mac product and hack drivers to use it in Windows? It’s totally opposite from what I am used to…. wow…
Windows jerks cannot create their own. They steal. Remember back years ago it was Steve who invented the mouse. Gready Billy gates quicky snuck out and got a patent on it. Windows is a follower but they suck at it
Neither Steve Jobs nor Apple Computer invented the mouse.
another trojan horse,
lets see, I am using an iPhone, all the kids have some type of iPod, and now I have a magic mouse!!
maybe I should buy a mac??
Putin the Apple’s magic mouse in a PC is like putting the figure that pops in and out from the Rolls Royce Phantom’s radiator in the the Yugo and the Saturn
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“they might wanna think different ( like they can…right)”
I know. They’re such sheep. Why can’t they be all smart and enlightened like we are. We are just so much smarter than all those “sheeple”. I was in Starbucks the other day and this guy was not using a Macbook. I was like, what are you some mindless drone, doing what you are told to do? You should be smart and cool and hip like me and the other Mac users. We never follow the crowds. We are just so awesome I want to hug myself. They can’t be individuals and think different and use machines that all look the same like we do.
No hackers are stealing anything. UneasySilence is a cool techblog that is mac centric.
Stop living up to the PC lovers stereotypes, you make us all look foolish
How about a hack so us non Snow Leopard users (PowerPC users) can have momentum scrolling?
I think my duel G5 tower can handle that.