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Magic Sales for a Not-So-Magic Mouse

December 30th, 2009 at 10:00pm Under Hot Apple News

Holiday spending has seen sales of Apple’s Magic Mouse soar. According to a report by NPD and covered today by AppleInsider, last month saw a twofold increase in Apple’s share of domestic mice sales. By the end of November, Apple had captured 10 percent of the market.
NPD analyst Stephen Baker told AppleInsider:
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Hands-on with the Magic Mouse

November 3rd, 2009 at 05:00pm Under Hot Apple News

Filed under: Peripherals, Features, Bluetooth, Reviews

Well, I got my Magic Mouse a few days ago, and I’ve been using it for my everyday tasks for a few days (and I’m still using it), and here are my impressions.

Packaging:

This packaging is clear, showing the actual Magic Mouse, just like the packaging that Apple has been using recently for the iPod shuffle, iPod nano, iPod touch and accessories.

Downloading the update:

As we posted earlier, you’ll want to to download the Wireless Mouse Update to enable the new features of the Magic Mouse, which is available for Snow Leopard and Leopard.

Set Up:

Once you’ve installed the Wireless Mouse Update, you’ll want to go to the Mouse Preference Pane in System Preferences and click the new “Set Up Bluetooth Mouse…” button. You no longer have to use the Bluetooth Setup Assistant to pair, which makes it a little simpler. It will then search for your Magic Mouse, and make sure it’s turned on, which is done by a switch on the bottom of the Magic Mouse. Once it’s paired, you’ll be all ready to use your Magic Mouse.

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TUAWHands-on with the Magic Mouse originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Apple tablet that wasn’t

October 29th, 2009 at 10:00am Under Hot Apple News

Filed under: Hardware, Portables, Odds and ends

TechCrunch has posted pictures of what they’re calling an “unlaunched Apple tablet.” In 1990, as the story goes, Apple was supposedly working on a pen-based touchscreen tablet called the Pen Mac that was actually extremely small for the time — just about an inch thick, with a screen the same size as a Mac Portable. They were bringing a few different companies in on the deal, and apparently it worked well — ran a full Mac OS, used a pen to control or let you plug in a mouse and keyboard, and there was even a smaller version called the PenLite (bulky by today’s standards, but remember that this is 20 years ago now).

So why weren’t we all using tablet computers 20 years ago? TechCrunch blames John Sculley, who apparently thought the tablet idea was out, and the PDA idea was in, and we ended up with the Newton instead. I won’t second guess him — while it’s easy to think that anything could have beaten the Newton, would the current Apple touchscreen tablet craze even be here if it weren’t for the iPhone? And isn’t Apple’s smartphone just a hop, skip and a jump from their original PDA?

TUAWThe Apple tablet that wasn’t originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple Unveils the Magic Mouse

October 20th, 2009 at 09:04pm Under Hot Apple News

Today Apple revealed the Magic Mouse — the world’s first multi-touch mouse. Inspired by the multi touch technology in the iPhone and trackpad on modern MacBooks, Magic Mouse is the zero-button, gesture-sensing, wireless pointing-device of your dreams.
Its design is quintessentially Apple. The sleek, minimal lines of Magic Mouse definitely look like something straight out of [...]

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Apple’s newest peripheral is the Magic Mouse

October 20th, 2009 at 07:25pm Under Hot Apple News

Filed under: Peripherals

TUAWApple’s newest peripheral is the Magic Mouse originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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New Apple Products, Including Magic Mice and Desktop Multi-touch Tomorrow?

October 20th, 2009 at 03:44am Under Hot Apple News+ Iphone

According to Daring Fireball, Apple is set to introduce new products tomorrow morning, including:

Redesigned Plastic MacBooks, Redesigned (‘Impressive’) iMacs, Updated Minis (Including One That Ships With Mac OS X Server), the Multi-Touch Magic Mouse, and, as the Wildcard I’m-Not-Sure-I-Really-Believe-It-Myself Out-There Rumor, Maybe Even Some Sort of Mentioned-Nowhere-Else-But-in-This-Very-Headline Multi-Touch Trackpad Gadget for Desktop Macs

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Ask TUAW: Joystick as mouse, remote access, PC friendly zip files, and more

October 14th, 2009 at 05:00pm Under Hot Apple News

Filed under: Features, Troubleshooting, Ask TUAW

Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we’ve got questions about using a joystick as a mouse, remotely accessing a Mac from a PC, creating zip files without the Mac-specific metadata, replicating certain Windows features, and more.

As always, your suggestions and questions are welcome. Questions for next week should be left in the comments. When asking a question please include which machine and which version of Mac OS X you’re running (we’ll assume you’re running Snow Leopard on an Intel Mac if you don’t specify). And now, on to the questions.

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New Apple Wireless Keyboard and Mouse show up in FCC database

October 2nd, 2009 at 11:00pm Under Hot Apple News

Filed under: Peripherals, Rumors

We’ve been hearing a lot about a new mouse from Apple lately, and earlier today images and additional documentation about a new Apple Wireless Keyboard and Mouse (using Bluetooth) showed up in the FCC database. The new keyboard has a model number of A1314, while the mouse has a model number of A1296. The dimensions of the new wireless keyboard are smaller than the current Apple Wireless Keyboard, particularly in the distance between the top and bottom of the keyboard. There are still few details on the new mouse at this point.

The FCC images were quickly pulled from the FCC database, then re-added later in the day with details cropped out, but they can still be found in all of their original glory over on our sister site Engadget.

[via Engadget]

TUAWNew Apple Wireless Keyboard and Mouse show up in FCC database originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Here it comes to save the day: New Mighty Mouse

October 2nd, 2009 at 07:00pm Under Hot Apple News

Filed under: Hardware, Rumors

“Twenty five years after introducing the world to mouse-based computing, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is now hoping to deliver significant advances to the input device by applying the company’s extensive research and development in multitouch technologies,” AppleInsider reports.

In other words, “new mouse.”

I own the often maligned Mighty Mouse, both wired and wireless. We have an on-again, off-again relationship. On one side, I like the feel of the thing. The extra weight added by the Bluetooth model’s batteries is especially nice, as is the smooth surface. It travels well in my bag, absorbing bumps and jolts without complaint.

The little trackball nubbin is another issue. It requires more cleaning than I’d like to perform, and makes me wish for an old ADB mouse. Popping the ball out and cleaning the rollers was a quick and simple job. I’ve used the Mighty Mouse paper trick — rub the ball on a sheet of paper or a few seconds — with mixed results.

AppleInsider reports that the current model is back ordered across retailers, and that its replacement won’t be white plastic, will ditch the trackball and feature “…expanded touch sensitive housing and ‘multipoint touch detection mechanism’ technologies.”

The new mouse could ship with the rumored iMac update.

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Updated: Multi-Touch to Go from iPhone to Mouse?

October 2nd, 2009 at 05:59pm Under Hot Apple News+ Iphone

UPDATE: Looks like Engadget managed to score the mouse and keyboard diagrams from the FCC filings before Apple had them yanked. They look the same from what little outline is shown, though the new keyboard is a tad smaller.

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