Magic Mouse Sensitivity

I think there is more of a problem than I last thought and I have now resorted to using TWO mice! Both bluetooth, the magic AND the mighty mouse! Here is what I have figured out about the magic one:

1) The click surface is also the scroll surface. For me at least, when I bring my finger down to click it is almost impossible not to roll or slide just the teeniest bit, so the screen scrolls a line or so just before the click. With "momentum" this is exacerbated. So in Google maps, or Omnigraffle, the delicate selection and click is very, very hard. One must bring one's click-finger STRAIGHT-DOWN without any sideways or rolling motion. I find this quite hard.

2) I was messing with a program named MouseWizard, http://www.samuco.net/web/node/23, and I found that the mouse would sense my finger just about BEFORE it actually touched the surface of the mouse. In other words, the sensitivity of the mouse was such that even BEFORE I actually contacted the surface, the mouse would register my finger. As in 1 above, if there was ANY sideways or rolling motion the mouse would pick it up and the screen would move a bit. In Omnigraffle this was impossible, likewise Google maps in the zooming in and out it was terribly sensitive, even in Word it was sometimes hard to select a line or a word.

As I noted, changing "Scrolling" to minimum and removing "Momentum" helped, but not sufficiently, and besides - I love the momentum! Then when moving OUT of maps or Omnigraffle, or Photoshop too - any program where precise selection is required - I found the scrolling sensitivity was way too low.

None of this happens with the mighty mouse or a trackpad, so why with the magic mouse I wonder.

So I now have two meese, a magic and a mighty, and I am happy!

But I would like somehow to fix the magic mouse. First, there DOES need to be a sensitivity selection. This would measure how much "closeness" or "pressure" the finger needs to exercise on the surface for a movement to be registered. Then there is a clear, and "mysterious" in my opinion, sensitivity dichotomy between programs like Google Maps and a simple browser, the mouse is terribly sensitive in the one and fine in the other. Not so with the trackpad which would seem essentially similar.

If the mouse preference pane could be selected from the menu bar, like the "Displays" it might help a little. I could use one of them Macro Languages to assign key-strokes to selections like "Lower Scrolling" and "Raise Scrolling" and "disable momentum" and so on. But there is still a fundamental issue with the magic mouse.

So I shall use the Magic for general stuff and the Mighty for fine stuff and hope for a fix.

I do like it though, whatever folks say I find it very comfortable, easy to use and I do like not having a mechanical ball which I seemed to be forever cleaning!

Cheers - Lawrence

That would explain why in some applications the thing is uber-sensitive, and in others it is better. I still find myself rolling my finger ever so slightly when I go to click and as a result the selection moves just enough to cause me to bellow. And the fact that it senses my finger before it quite touches the surface - that causes problems too I think. The "touch" sensitivity needs to be adjustable, and Adobe will certainly need to listen to the settings.

It is a grand mouse, but more work is required. Do you think Apple is doing anything, anyway to get these thoughts heard by them I wonder?

Lawrence

Well - I had a girlfriend once tell me my aura was too potent and maybe I should use more deodorant. I shall run tests, perhaps it is more intransigent after some chocolates, or a cigar.

Thanks, good solutions, I particularly like the hardware solution.

Just stick on a bigger patch...