What's new in MagicPrefs 2.4.3
Jan 20, 2016
- Added support for the rechargeable magic mouse and trackpad.
New in MagicPrefs 2.4.2 (Oct 22, 2012)
- new action: Toggle Scrolling
- fixes a issue with multiple instances running concurrently
New in MagicPrefs 2.4.1 (Jul 23, 2012)
- Mountain Lion tweaks
- Miscellaneous fixes and optimizations
New in MagicPrefs 2.4.0 (Apr 21, 2012)
- added Mountain Lion support
- added Lion support for MagicMenu
- miscellaneous fixes and optimizations
New in MagicPrefs 2.3.2 (Oct 17, 2011)
- Changed the scrolling preferences and added an option for Diagonal scrolls, previous settings were reset
- Improved some cases of wake from sleep handling
New in MagicPrefs 2.3.1 (Sep 21, 2011)
- new actions Hold Both Left&Right, Hold Both Left&Middle, Shift Left Click, Ctrl Left Click
- many small fixes for MacBooks
New in MagicPrefs 2.3.0 (Aug 2, 2011)
- dropped support for 10.6 Snow Leopard, this update and those to follow are only for 10.7 Lion
- now plays nice with the Lion "Look up" three finger tap gesture
- inverse scrolling option replaced with Ctrl+scroll to zoom screen
- added global option for also generating native pinch and rotate OS X gestures in addition to the action assigned to that gesture (if any)
- new trackpad gestures: 4 finger swipe up/down/left/right
New in MagicPrefs 2.2.3 (Jun 13, 2011)
- reverse scrolling now works properly with Magic Menu
- improved refreshing of battery level display
- removed notifications of critical battery level (now changes color of icon instead)
- menubar plugin ✔/✘ glyphs now properly reflect the status rather then the action
- zone editing now works even if the cursor moves outside
- zones having positional limitations now display them then the limit is hit
- zones stuck outside allowed limits will now be reset back within their limits
- selecting a gesture zone while editing the scroll zone is not possible anymore
New in MagicPrefs 2.2.2 (May 30, 2011)
- now properly handles devices when waking up from sleep even with "Allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer" enabled
- if battery display is enabled for a device with statistics a graphical history is displayed in dock for that device
- fixed a issue with self generated clicks not being double/triple clickable
- fixed bugs with battery level display/refreshing
- fixed a memory leak
New in MagicPrefs 2.2.1 (May 12, 2011)
- inverse scrolling now works with carbon based applications
- growl battery notifications are now only shown when statistics are enabled
- fixed issues with installing plugins
- patched vulnerability to Unsanity Menu Master infinite loop
New in MagicPrefs 2.2.0 (Apr 8, 2011)
- fixed "Hold Both Right&Left" action broken in 2.1.0
New in MagicPrefs 2.1.0 (Apr 8, 2011)
- added global inverse scroll option
- added swipe, rotate and pinch gestures for trackpads
- fixed trackpad click gestures dismissing some actions
- fixed inconsistency with tracking speed restored on quit
- fixed reversed amplitude component for swipes triggering
- brings maximum CPU usage back to 1.9x levels (down to 1.5% from 2.5%)
- fixed a crash in the plugins process
- fixed a bug preventing plugins to autoupdate
- the plugins process no longer runs while no plugins are enabled
- other minor bug fixes
New in MagicPrefs 2.1.0 (Apr 8, 2011)
- added global inverse scroll option
- added swipe, rotate and pinch gestures for trackpads
- fixed trackpad click gestures dismissing some actions
- fixed inconsistency with tracking speed restored on quit
- fixed reversed amplitude component for swipes triggering
- brings maximum CPU usage back to 1.9x levels (down to 1.5% from 2.5%)
- fixed a crash in the plugins process
- fixed a bug preventing plugins to autoupdate
- the plugins process no longer runs while no plugins are enabled
- other minor bug fixes
New in MagicPrefs 2.0.2 (Feb 25, 2011)
- Fixes the preference pane setting tracking speed with no magic trackpad.
New in MagicPrefs 2.0.1 (Feb 23, 2011)
- removed tracking speed settings for the MacBook Trackpad
- uses the current tracking speed value as default when installed
- cosmetic tweaks and small fixes
New in MagicPrefs 2.0.0 (Feb 21, 2011)
- added support for the Magic Trackpad and MacBook Trackpad
- migrated everything but the core functionality from the main process into optional plugins
- presets can now also be confined to apps missing executable information (hl2_osx etc)
- scroll zone settings are now also properly applied when loaded automatically for apps confined to a specific preset
- added growl notification when loading presets automatically for apps confined to a specific preset
- MacBooks with two graphic cards are not forced anymore to use the nvidia one by the core application
- removed twitter features
- removed OSX 10.5 support
- removed intel 1st gen mac support
- many bug fixes
New in MagicPrefs 1.9.3 (Nov 15, 2010)
- added support for 10.6.5 on 1st gen intel macs from 2006
- fixed false negative warning about a missing mouse on some systems
- removed excessive logging on macbooks
New in MagicPrefs 1.9.2 (Jul 2, 2010)
- previous tracking speed is now restored with no magic mouse connected
- the MagicMenu pref pane can be installed on demand from the menubar
- optimized the twitter/google reader interfaces
- fixed alt click and command click
- increased the time before touches are forgotten from 1 millisecond to 5 seconds
New in MagicPrefs 1.9.1 (Jun 10, 2010)
- memory usage improvements
- previous tracking speed is now restored when disabled
- fixed a crash and leak with the camera functionality
- fixed a bug with the disable autostart option
- fixed a bug with installing while system preferences is open
New in MagicPrefs 1.9.0 (May 5, 2010)
- significant core optimizations
- addressed inconsistencies with device detection
- 4 new actions: Snap Picture, Tweet, Read Tweets, Google Reader
New in MagicPrefs 1.8.2 (Mar 29, 2010)
New in MagicPrefs 1.8.1 (Mar 17, 2010)
- the zone for scrolling is now editable
- fixed a typo in scrolling preferences, existing presets with "Both axis" will have to be resaved
- the Left Double Click action is now also available for all gestures under the "Clicks" section
- MagicMenu gets properly selected now when triggered from a click action
- added a check for Two Fingers Swipe Left/Right to Navigate
- improved the graphics of the preference pane
New in MagicPrefs 1.8.0 (Mar 14, 2010)
- The zones for all gestures are now editable
- Added 2 new MagicMenu triggers: One Finger Middle Axis Click and Three Finger Click
New in MagicPrefs 1.7.3 (Mar 6, 2010)
- built in actions now support non english and non qwerty keyboard layouts
- changed the middle axis zone from left40%-middle20%-right40% to left33%-middle33%-right33%
- fixed a crash with some custom keyboard actions
New in MagicPrefs 1.7.2 (Mar 1, 2010)
- New actions: Recent Applications,Cmd Left Click, Alt Left Click.
- The space switching actions are now dynamic.
- The scrolling settings are now implemented into presets.
New in MagicPrefs 1.7.1 (Feb 14, 2010)
- Implemented scrolling behavior control.
- PPC is not supported anymore.
- Added finger pointer off notification.
- Added caps lock off notification.
- More checks and fixes.
New in MagicPrefs 1.7.0 (Feb 10, 2010)
- Implemented Magic Menu.
- New action : Finger Pointer to move the pointer with the finger.
- Dashboard action reverted to non auto dismissing one, use a custom custom keyboard action instead to get dismiss back.
- Added a detection routine for broken OSX keyboard shortcuts.
New in MagicPrefs 1.6.1 (Jan 26, 2010)
- implemented tracking speed synchronization when fast user switching
- tracking speed now is properly applied when loading a preset from the menu bar
- fixed a crash when disabling magicprefs
- added notifications
- added a option for caps lock notification
- miscellaneous fixes (taps count,gestures count,tracking speed)
- application switcher is back
New in MagicPrefs 1.6.0 (Jan 18, 2010)
- presets can now be assigned and restricted to user configurable applications lists (OSX 10.6+)
- implemented reading the system shortcuts for shortcut triggered actions
- screen zoom is automatically toggled on if disabled when zooming
- dashboard now properly dismisses itself
- implemented notices when enabling potentially disruptive gestures
- implemented growl integration
New in MagicPrefs 1.5.4 (Jan 13, 2010)
- Improvements to autoupdate
New in MagicPrefs 1.5.3 (Jan 11, 2010)
New in MagicPrefs 1.5.2 (Jan 11, 2010)
- settings are never applied to other devices than magic mouse
- improved notice images
New in MagicPrefs 1.5.1 (Jan 8, 2010)
- added Lock Session action
- added Left Double Click target action for taps
- improved the reliability and compatibility of custom keyboard actions
- improved the stability of the application
- to avoid confusion the default preset is no longer the default selected one
New in MagicPrefs 1.5.0 (Jan 5, 2010)
- moved the preferences window from the app to a system preferences pane
- added custom AppleScript target actions
- miscellaneous optimizations
New in MagicPrefs 1.4.2 (Jan 3, 2010)
- Improved handling of custom keyboard targets.
- Fixed a issue with wireless keyboards.
New in MagicPrefs 1.4.1 (Jan 3, 2010)
- Added option to disable one finger scrolling.
New in MagicPrefs 1.4 (Dec 30, 2009)
- added custom keyboard shortcuts/macros bindings
- added custom application launching bindings
- implemented more checks for macbooks with trackpads
- visual improvements
- miscellaneous bug fixes
New in MagicPrefs 1.36 (Dec 27, 2009)
- Most binding targets are now accessible for any gesture.
- Does not apply settings to trackpad clicks anymore.
- Does not apply settings to trackpad after waking for sleep.
- Added about screen.
- Added disable magicprefs option.
- Added disable autostart option.
- Fixed a crash in the real time display on 10.5
New in MagicPrefs 1.35 (Dec 27, 2009)
- Added welcome screen.
- Speed improvements.
- Added "noAutostart" and "noStartUpCheck" hidden defaults.
New in MagicPrefs 1.34 (Dec 23, 2009)
- optimizations and small tweaks
New in MagicPrefs 1.33 (Dec 21, 2009)
- implemented handling of sleep/wake events
- selecting targets now auto-enables associated gesture
New in MagicPrefs 1.32 (Dec 17, 2009)
- Fixed a bug affecting users of older macbooks with no glass touchpad
New in MagicPrefs 1.31 (Dec 17, 2009)
- Fixed typo causing a bug when multiple bluetooth mice are paired
New in MagicPrefs 1.3 (Dec 16, 2009)
- Swipes : bindings for three finger swipes left, right, up and down,
- Drag, Pinch : 1 finger drag apple tail left and right , two finger pinch , three finger pinch
- new binding targets: Spotlight, Screen Zoom , Application Zoom ,Switch Applications , Switch Space
- fixed having to restart app after a mouse disconnect
- does not apply the settings to the trackpad anymore on macbooks
- in case of multiple apple wireless mice paired the settings are applied to the favorited one
New in MagicPrefs 1.1 (Dec 7, 2009)