Do you middle click?
Do you use the middle button on your mouse to click for a special function?
I use the middle button on my Mighty Mouse to click on web links to open them up in new tabs in the browser. It’s very handy and I miss it when I use a trackpad or a mouse without a middle button.

Like the new trackpads on the latest Mac Notebooks or that touch sensitive rodent the Magic Mouse.

But help is at hand, those Mac geeks at the Mac Observer’s ‘Mac Geek Gab‘ podcast featured an app called middleclick.app in their latest pod cast.

The idea is you tap with three fingers to get a middle click function. It works really well.

I had dismissed the Magic Mouse just because of it’s lack of a middle button, but I may take another look now that there is a work around for this vital function.

Apple launched some new products yesterday.

A gorgeous looking new range of the iMac, with superb high definition screens. The MacBook laptop gets a makeover and looks really nice. The Mac Mini gets a speed boost and now they do a server version. (I have had three Mac Minis, a firm favourite of mine.)

And a mouse.
What can I say? Apple can’t make pointing devices. I have a Mighty Mouse, it sucks. I HATE it. It does not click correctly, the scroll feature keeps clogging up and jamming, the side buttons are useless, IT’S RUBBISH APPLE!

The new mouse looks like it they put a Mighty Mouse and trackpad in a box and allowed them to breed. The result looks like the worst of both devices.

It’s really easy Apple:-

Go to PC World, pick up a cheap £10 mouse.
Take to the design labs and copy it.
Make it white plastic.
Don’t do anything else to it, less is more with a mouse.

OR

Farm out your rodent production to Logitech.