magic mouse

Something completely unrelated to JavaScript. But related to Development in general: Apple's magic mouse.

When coding more than once you will find your self scrolling through pages and pages of code. So a good scrolling mechanism has it's benefits. Here enters apple's new magic mouse. I just got one and it is really really good.

It has a touchpad and to scroll you just have to swipe over it. It senses how hard you want to scroll by measuring the speed of your swipe gesture. This makes it possible to scroll really fast and it also has momentum so your page keeps scrolling although you just swiped once. When you see the part of the code scrolling by on your screen you were looking for just tap your mouse and it stops scrolling. Also you can swipe horizontally so it is a lot easier to handle long lines of code.

I truly believe that you can speed up your coding significantly by just simply using good hardware. A fast and responsive computer, really big screen, a good set of headphones and from now on a magic mouse from apple for me.