So that means you have to incessantly move the mouse across the entire screen, and make sure that your mouse lands on a small target every time. In both OSX and Windows, the 3 primary window management controls (red/yellow/green and minimize, de-full screen, and X) are at the top of the screen, and the primary application management tools are at the bottom of the screen by default (Dock and Task Bar). To make matters worse, you often have to click at opposite ends of the screen. I probably click 4-5x as much as the average user, putting me over 2000 clicks per day. I couldn't find any well-crafted studies but the preliminary Google results suggest 472. I Googled to find the average number of mouse clicks per person per day. Every few seconds, people demand something new of their computer: open a new email, send an email, open file browser, select a folder, select another folder, select another folder, copy, switch to another application, paste. But today, hundreds of millions of people spend all day sitting in front of a PC. This worked well when you couldn't do much with a computer, and when you didn't spend all day sitting at a computer. The original conception of a computer mouse was based on this principle. If you want to show your friends something cool, just point. If you see something of interest, you'' point. It's fundamental to human interaction and communication. How do most 1-year-old children express that they want something? They point. But before we get into the details of BTT, let's look at the evolution of the computer mouse. BTT allows you to map any recognizable gesture to any system command or keyboard in OSX, at the global or application-specific level. This post will focus on another free OSX app, BetterTouchTool (BTT). In my first post of this 3 part series, I detailed why Alfred extends the PC keyboard into the ultimate productiivty tool.
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