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Following up my earlier review of the magic mouse, and thanks to Don in the comments for pointing it out, BetterTouchTool is a small application for OS X that gives you a third mouse click with the Magic Mouse. It does more than that though. It allows you to do all sorts of custom gestures. For example, now If I put my whole hand on the mouse for a second it brings up the application switcher, and swiping down with two fingers is the equivalent of hitting the end key. It’s pretty cool and worth checking out if you have a magic mouse.

I’ve never been one of those people who hated every Apple mouse. Sure, I loathed the hockey puck that came with the original iMac, but then who didn’t? I didn’t find the original pro mouse that bad or the mighty mouse (when the scroll ball was working). Still, I couldn’t resist trading up for Apple’s new multi touch rodent. Actually, it was kind of a spur of the moment decision. I was walking through my local HMV (which has recently started selling Macs and other Apple products) and there it was on the shelf, calling to me, luring me with it’s curvaceous miniscule packaging.