Right-Click: The Often Overlooked Treasure

"I'd switch to a MAC, but I couldn't imagine giving up the right-click." This lament of a PC user is a broad and correctible misconception. Right-click functionality has been built into OS X since 2001, so third-party mice would work. Even though you don’t clearly see it, the Macintosh mouse has had built-in right-click since August 2005.

This article is only about right-click, so we will ignore the clickable customizable scroll-ball and side-button features of the Mighty Mouse. The magic of touch-sensitive technology transforms this seamless top shell into a two-button wonder, in wired or wireless versions.

Read the complete article from the appleJAC Macintosh Users Group.

Comments

[Betty]

Good article about an often-forgotten feature that's been around much longer than OS X. Contextual menus were in Netscape with simple click and hold. FinderPop did the same for Mac OS.

One correction: I use a Macintosh computer [Mac], actually four of them. MAC is an acronym for Media Access Control address or Ethernet Hardware Address.

Thanks!