If your sitting behind an older Mac notebook that doesn’t have the unibody trackpad or if you have a Mac Pro tower, you might be interested in snagging the new Apple Magic Mouse

I read ‘Sesamouse adds more multitouch gestures to Magic Mouse‘ yesterday and figured that if this software was able to dispatch OS level gestures than Adobe Air 2 would probably be able to pick this up and run with it.

Turns out this works rather nicely.

You can download the software here.  And here’s the instructions to get up and running.

There isn’t much to it, just run this application in the background and you’ll be able to respond to TransformGestureEvents.  Remember to set your Multitouch.inputMode to GESTURE and listen for TransformGestureEvents.

Currently, you will not be able to responded to actual TouchEvents.  OSX only provides the Flash platform with gestures.

Here’s a quick video this working:

Be sure to thank Calf Trail Software.  They are asking that everyone donate to small businesses in Haiti for the rebuild effort instead of charging for this software.

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