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I Hacked the Magic Mouse

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Re: I Hacked the Magic Mouse

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Post by diego_moita »

GlumWoodpecker wrote: post #3

As a hobby project: cool. But as a solution to a problem, how about not supporting companies that make ridiculously overpriced products with hugely deficient functional designs? Apple consistently makes products that work worse than their competitors', for quadruple the price, but, hey, I guess they "look nice". ...which is subjective, personally I think Apple products look absolutely atrocious, with half of screen r…

> how about not supporting companies that make ridiculously overpriced products with hugely deficient functional designs?

You made a very good point.

This whole post reminds me the whole iPhone Jailbreak thing: people devoting an huge amount of time and effort to "fix" something Apple doesn't want to be fixed.

And they're even proud of it! I find it to be utterly pathetic.

Over and over again Apple forces their manipulative decisions over their costumers and the majority just follows along.

And the funniest thing is the standard reaction on HN, a place for Apple fanboys. When Microsoft does the same this place erupts with anger, e.g: all the complaints about adds and telemetry on Windows. If Apple does it they invent excuses and over-complicated workarounds for it.

Re: I Hacked the Magic Mouse

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Post by rasz »

thebruce87m wrote: post #90
mission_failed wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, the magic mouse is fine to use if you don't use it as a mouse...? I can't decide which is more appropriate, "Think different" or "you're holding it wrong"

Reminder: he never said “you’re holding it wrong”

You are right, he said:

>Gizmodo put their video on the web people were touching x marks the spot here and they were seeing a large drop in bars

> doesn't seem like a good idea if you can touch your phone one particularly grip your phone in a certain way and the bars go way down

and the fix was adding hysteresis to Cellular signal meter so it wont immediately react, no bars going down on screen = fixed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqSLZ1jqhFQ

Re: I Hacked the Magic Mouse

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Post by graphe »

alpaca128 wrote: post #70
goosedragons wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find scrolling is even more enjoyable with a trackball. You get an entire ball to spin!

For me nothing beat scrolling with an unlocked scrollwheel on my old Logitech mouse. It could keep spinning for >10 seconds and allowed super fast scrolling. Though FPS games with weapon switching bound to the mouse wheel did not like that feature at all...

Try the home and end button, or the pgup pgdn button.

Re: I Hacked the Magic Mouse

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Post by hahamaster »

lemper wrote: post #86
hahamaster wrote: post #82

There are thousands of mice available on the market, and almost all of them can be used on a Mac. It's strange that anyone bothers to fix any mouse. Just buy a mouse that fits your requirements.

bro, let him cook. he hasn't cross the line.

I’m not saying he shouldn’t do it, I’m just saying it’s strange.

Magic Mouse was designed to be held with two fingers and moved with the wrist.

Personally I would never buy a product completely, diametrically different from what I need and then adapt it. But I guess some people like the challenge and I have no problem with that.

Re: I Hacked the Magic Mouse

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Post by nrabulinski »

sunrise54 wrote: post #96

https://mousebase.io

Except it’s not comparable because they make a case for the Magic Mouse, don’t allow charging it and use a lens to have the sensor track while this guy added a charging port and disassembled his mouse to have the sensor truly be on the surface

Re: I Hacked the Magic Mouse

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Post by jmholla »

ryandrake wrote: post #36

Good for this guy, wow. Nice project. I always thought that the Magic Mouse was really the ideal technology for interacting with a Mac--just too bad that it's so unergonomic. I can't prove it, but I blame a decade of Magic Mouse use for my very painful RSI, which I now have the pleasure of experiencing using any mouse at all. Apple's input devices are beautiful, but they totally blow comfort. It's as if their industr…

Have you tried vertical mice? I hvae one and it helps with my carpal tunnel (which incidentally I'm pretty sure was caused by Mac's butterfly keyboards and their lack of travel distance).
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