MagicPrefs Adds a Little More Magic to Apple’s Magic Mouse

In October, Apple released it’s newest mouse offering, the Magic Mouse.  I wrote a review of it in November, here.  At first, I was worried that it was a little too low profile, but after about a week or so, my hand got used to it and I’ve loved it ever since.  The momentum scrolling is phenomenal, and the multi-touch gestures are fantastic.  They make navigating the web extremely easy while the momentum scrolling makes scrolling through large documents a breeze.  The only problem with it, however, is that Apple sort of crippled it when they shipped it.  It only supports a single two-finger gesture out of the box, and very basic, regular one-finger gestures.  The tracking is also incredibly slow.MagicPrefs is a menu bar application (soon to be a System Preferences pane) developed by Vlad Alexa that was made to solve these problems, plus some.  Here’s the Apple “Mouse” System Prefences Pane for a Magic Mouse:

Here’s what MagicPrefs adds:

This app makes me wonder why Apple shipped the Magic Mouse so crippled out of the box; It obviously can support a lot more than they enabled by default.

The app works super well, and it’s something every Magic Mouse owner should go and install immediately.  Just bringing back the “middle click” for Dashboard did it for me.  I’m sure you’ll find something incredibly useful for your workflow as well.  Let me know what you think in the comments down below.