{"id":253,"date":"2011-08-23T11:43:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T17:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattdturner.com\/wordpress\/?p=253"},"modified":"2011-08-31T09:08:58","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T15:08:58","slug":"os-x-lion-bettertouchtool-vs-magicprefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattdturner.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/os-x-lion-bettertouchtool-vs-magicprefs\/","title":{"rendered":"OS X Lion: BetterTouchTool vs MagicPrefs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Well its been quite a long time since my last post, and it will probably be a while between this post and the next. \u00a0Things have gotten busy here at school, and I have no free time to devote to writing posts. \u00a0But, I recently updated to OS X Lion on my Macbook Pro and ran into a few issues with MagicPrefs that I imagine others are frustrated by as well.<\/p>\n

When I first got my Magic Mouse I was very disappointed. \u00a0The mouse speed was way too slow, even on the fastest setting, and the gestures were limited at best. \u00a0I promptly discovered the app MagicPrefs, and it solved all of my problems with the Magic Mouse. \u00a0Magic Prefs (http:\/\/magicprefs.com\/) is a free application for OS X that “aims to improve the functionality and configuration options of the Apple Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad and the MacBook glass trackpad”. \u00a0The thing I liked most about MagicPrefs was the fact that there were a wide array of gestures that you could enable.<\/p>\n

But then OS X Lion was released. \u00a0A majority of the functionality from MagicPrefs still works perfectly. \u00a0However, there was 1 extremely frustrating problem I ran into; the inability to go to the previous\/next page. \u00a0The 2 finger swipe that was previously used to navigate to a different page was replaced with the navigation to a different full-screen application. \u00a0I looked through the preferences in MagicPrefs and was unable to figure out how to assign any gesture to the next\/previous page. \u00a0In my opinion, its pointless to have a gesture-enabled mouse if you can’t perform a gesture that I use hundreds of times every day. \u00a0So, I uninstalled MagicPrefs and downloaded BetterTouchTool (http:\/\/www.boastr.de\/).<\/p>\n

There are a few differences between MagicPrefs and BetterTouchTool that I would like to point out.<\/p>\n