And another one: jitouch. Which definitely beats the pants off of
magicprefs and BTT.

Cinch is a little difference. I myself use TwoUp for this (free),
which uses keyboard shortcuts instead of mouse drags.

On Jan 7, 3:25 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I was going to post the same app (magic prefs).  I think it's tough to
> get the right settings.
>
> Another app I just stumbled across:  http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/cinch/
> gives you windows 7 like docking.  very cool
>
> On Jan 6, 1:53 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > (regarding the holiday special).
>
> > It's not working particularly well for me, so YMMV, but apparently
> > these tools work much better on snow leopard than on leopard, but...
>
> > BetterTouchTool:http://blog.boastr.net/
>
> > and:
>
> > magicprefs:http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/magicpref...
>
> > allow you to go as nuts as you wanna get. You can use tap-to-click
> > (ill-advised), add special actions from swiping across the surface, or
> > even swiping the apple logo to the left or right, you can restore an
> > explicit middle bit of the mouse as a clickable area, and for most
> > clicks/taps you can set up actions for using 1, 2, 3, or 4 fingers on
> > the mouse when you do it.
>
> > One of the major issues is that the capacitive surface of a magicmouse
> > is NOT, contrary to popular opinion, 'like an iPhone'. It has less
> > granularity (either that, or magicprefs isn't very good at this) -
> > when 2 fingers are reasonably close together (but not close enough to
> > confuse either an iPhone or a unibody macbook glass trackpad),
> > magicprefs says its one finger.
>
> > I tried to set it up for a 3-fingered click to exposé all windows of
> > the current app, but it worked about 90% of the time. For this stuff,
> > if its less than 99%, its far too annoying to use, so I turned it off.
>
> > But, YMMV. Maybe it works better for you guys.
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