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Middle Click on Multitouch Magic Mouse
Using my shiny new multi-touch “magic” mouse now, and I love it. Scrolling is as natural now as it is on a trackpad, and right-click works flawlessly for a mouse with no buttons. But, oops! How do I send a middle-click (button 3)? You know, to open a link in a new tab?
Typical Apple: two steps forward and one step back. The traditional Mouse preference pane allows you to assign button 3 to the scroll wheel. But the new Mouse preference pane, for the magic mouse, doesn’t. It plays little videos to show you how to use the mouse, but the number of things you can do with it has been limited. Ugh.
Enter BetterTouchTool by Andreas Hegenberg, available at http://blog.boastr.net/. Launch it, map “three finger click” to MiddleClick, and you’re done. It ain’t pretty (yet?) but it works.
