3751 Calf Trail Software, LLC announces Sesamouse 1.0.2, a free new utility for extending the gesture capabilities of the Magic Mouse. Sesamouse works by imitating real multitouch trackpad gestures, enabling the user to exercise fine control over pinch and rotate gestures without needing to set up keyboard shortcuts.

The Magic Mouse hardware is full of potential - so much more than scrolling and swiping. Sesamouse interprets more motions, letting you zoom and rotate in gesture-capable apps like iPhoto and Preview. It even sends information about each finger on the mouse's surface to software that supports advanced multitouch.

Sesamouse also sends the position of each finger as touch information (known to Cocoa developers as a set of NSTouch objects) that can be recognized by more advanced multitouch apps. Users can practice gestures and see how their fingers have been recognized above Sesamouse's own application window.

In a post introducing Sesamouse on their blog, Calf Trail writes, "Since seeing Jef Han's [multitouch demonstration at the 2006 TED conference], it's been obvious that multitouch is a great way to do more stuff with less fuss on the computer." By extending the multitouch capabilities of Apple's Magic Mouse hardware, Calf Trail hopes to open more multitouch benefits to desktop users.

Because Sesamouse does rely on some undocumented system features, Calf Trail is releasing it as a free utility in hopes that it will still benefit both users and developers of multitouch-aware applications. In lieu of donations at this time, Calf Trail is encouraging users to contribute directly to help Haitian small businesses rebuild via a link on the Sesamouse product page.

New in version 1.0.2:
• Changed the way input devices are found, which hopefully fixes most MacBook issues.
• Corrected erroneous sent field that could cause minor trouble in advanced multitouch apps.

System Requirements:
Requires Mac OS X 10.6

Sesamouse is a free utility. If you like it, please consider a donation to support our efforts donating directly to help small businesses in Haiti rebuild.

Haiti Business Recovery Donations:
http://www.partnersworldwide.org/news/haiti_business_recovery

Calf Trail Software:
http://calftrail.com/

Sesamouse 1.0:
http://calftrail.com/sesamouse/

Download Sesamouse:
http://calftrail.com/release/Sesamouse-1.0.zip

Screenshot:
http://calftrail.com/images/Sesamouse-Screenshot-touches.png

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