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My New Favourite Mouse

We’ve built a better mouse.

It began with iPhone. Then came iPod touch. Then MacBook Pro. Intuitive, smart, dynamic. Multi-Touch technology introduced a remarkably better way to interact with your portable devices — all using gestures. Now we’ve reached another milestone by bringing gestures to the desktop with a mouse that’s unlike anything ever before. It's called Magic Mouse. It's the world's first Multi-Touch mouse. And while it comes standard with every new iMac, you can also add it to any Bluetooth-enabled Mac for a Multi-Touch makeover.

Seamless Multi-Touch Surface

Magic Mouse — with its low-profile design and seamless top shell — is so sleek and dramatically different, it brings a whole new feel to the way you get around on your Mac. You can’t help but marvel at its smooth, buttonless appearance. Then you touch it and instantly appreciate how good it feels in your hand. But it’s when you start using Magic Mouse that everything comes together.

The Multi-Touch area covers the top surface of Magic Mouse, and the 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.

Laser-Tracking Engine

Magic Mouse uses powerful laser tracking that’s far more sensitive and responsive on more surfaces than traditional optical tracking. That means it tracks with precision on nearly every surface — whether it’s a table at your favourite cafe or the desk in your home office — without the need for a mousepad.

Wireless

Magic Mouse connects wirelessly to your Mac via Bluetooth, so there’s no wire or separate adapter to worry about. Pair Magic Mouse with your Bluetooth-enabled Mac and enjoy a reliable and secure connection up to 10m (33 feet) away. When you combine Magic Mouse with the Apple Wireless Keyboard, you create a workspace free of annoying cables.

And because Magic Mouse is wireless, it can venture beyond the confines of your desk. A quick flick of the on/off switch helps conserve battery power while Magic Mouse is tucked in your bag. Even when it’s on, Magic Mouse manages power efficiently, by detecting periods of inactivity automatically.

 

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Spot the Difference

   

One is an expensive, gorgeous-looking machine and the other runs Windows 7. No, wait that doesn't help at all...

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(Snow) Leopard

Now, I know £25 is a bargain but can I quickly gripe about the pricing! This actually goes for all gadgets and software; why is a $29 priced at £25 in the UK when, at the current exchange rate it should be £17? I didn't pay for my Snow Leopard update out of my own pocket so it makes little difference to me but it really bugs me that the UK gets stung when it comes to pricing of, pretty much every gadget. It also bugs me that I couldn't buy a family pack for the machines at work because it's not available through the education store. It would cost £125 to upgrade the 5 machines I was intending to upgrade instead of £39 for the family pack. Anyway, I'll be honest, I didn't check how much space I had on my HD before I upgraded so I'm not 100% sure if I got 7Gb (or more as others have quoted). I can confirm, however, that on my iMac (iMac5,1 for the ultra-nerd) the OS is running much faster than Leopard. When I upgraded to Leopard I noticed a marked reduction in boot speed which has increased, at least to the speed I got from Tiger. Not exactly thrilling but, given the age of my iMac, I'm pleased to be running at full speed! One of the major complaints from those upgrading to Snow Leopard is the incompatibility of a number of applications. For those planning to update, check out this wiki which contains compatibilities for thousands of applications. The only problem I've had so far is with CyberDuck but an update is currently in beta. To be honest, unless your the app is really old, it shouldn't be long before an update is available - most developers got the release candidate of Snow Leopard some time ago. I like the new services features which means I'm actually using them with applescripts I'd written in Leopard, I like the additional features in exposé and stacks which makes them function as they should have in the first place. And for me, that's it. It seems to me that Snow Leopard is like Windows 7 - an update that should never have to be. The stuff going on under the hood (which I don't really understand - I'm not a developer) is what Snow Leopard is all about - Snow Leopard is really Leopard re-written without the need to cater for PowerPC users.

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Quote of the Day

"Did you write it on a PC?" he was asked. "No," he replied, "I wrote it on a Mac. I've never used a PC in my life."
Brian Eno on composing the Windows 95 start-up music
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Do the iPod Shuffle


With a sleaker design and a new 'Voice Over' function (that allows you to hear the informaion that would normally be displayed on an iPod's screen), the Shuffle is becoming an amazing piece of kit. The controls have moved from the body of the Shuffle to a inline control on the headphone cord and the capacity increased to an generous 4GB for £59 in the UK. I do wonder though how small can an iPod get.

I'm holding out for the next generation that will inevitably be injected subdermally.

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Anyone got £1800 spare?

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