New Pro Mouse?

[Steve M]

The first thing I did when I bought my iBook is buy a 2-button optical mouse with a scroll wheel. Once you're used to using that second button and scroll wheel, you'll HATE not having them.

Apple could add a second button capability without altering the lines. Just make the part that clicks now, also rock. If you click on the left side of the mouse, it's a left click. If you click on the right side of the mouse, it's a right click.

They could even have some sort of sensor where the wheel would go, that if you make forward & backward motions with your finger over the sensor, it performs scrolling functions.

But if they don't do it, I'll just keep buying third party 2-button wheel mice and keeping the Apple mouse as a back-up. Or maybe using it as a Christmas ornament.

 

[gopher]

Mouses!!! It is mice!

Come on folks....we of all people should know it is mice. Apple innovated mice as a way to input information into computers. It was IBM who made a big stink about it when they released the PC Jr, and they advertised it as the first PCs to use mouses! Look it up in a dictionary if you don't believe me....the plural of mouse is mice!

Originally posted by matznentosh
But wouldn't that be cool if they could make their no button mouse right clickable?!

Actually I have one of those. Believe it or not, it's a right and left click buttonless mouse, with a scroll wheel. Transparent, so it lights up, and the scroll wheel is lit bright blue!

It's called a COMMouse, or Crystal Optical Mouse. Only problem with it is that you can't maintain a click drag if you pick the mouse off the table. All Apple mouses allow you to drag to the end of the mouse pad, pick the mouse up and move it back, then continue dragging. I've configured it with USB overdrive and use the scroll click as a click drag, so that sort of solves the problem.

 

[Rower_CPU]

Re: Mouses!!! It is mice!

Originally posted by gopher
Look it up in a dictionary if you don't believe me....the plural of mouse is mice!

I'm still sticking to meeces...it's in my dictionary of nonexistent words...

 

[ibjoshua]

yeah? well i'm down with mice too

the plural of mouse id definitely mice.

i think it might be a north american thing. invent new words rather that accept the original ones. i saw this american woman on tv today who claimed she had 'disentangled' a creature. it's just 'untangled'. and what's this 'burglarized'? i think it's 'burgled'

sorry, got a bit carried away there.

out

 

[Rower_CPU]

Disentangled is real...
Burglarized is real...

Meeces is not, but I can't believe we're arguing over the plural of mouse, so I threw it in for the sake of parody...

 

[SPG]

To Steve "button" is real, "buttons" is not real.

 

[AlphaTech]

Originally posted by Rower_CPU
Disentangled is real...
Burglarized is real...

Meeces is not, but I can't believe we're arguing over the plural of mouse, so I threw it in for the sake of parody...

But what if you hate those meeces to peices??? LMAO Just had to put that in... needed a little toon relief.

 

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by AlphaTech


But what if you hate those meeces to peices??? LMAO Just had to put that in... needed a little toon relief.

I do what I can to keep things light around here...especially when you're late-night posting like ourselves.

 

[AlphaTech]

Originally posted by Rower_CPU


I do what I can to keep things light around here...especially when you're late-night posting like ourselves.

I can understand that... and your avatar's motion is making me wanta hurl... blow chunks... I'm gonna spew... lol..

Actually it looks cool, but the constant motion.............. *just messing with you*

 

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by AlphaTech


I can understand that... and your avatar's motion is making me wanta hurl... blow chunks... I'm gonna spew... lol..

Actually it looks cool, but the constant motion.............. *just messing with you*

Ha ha...very funny...I keep waiting for yours to drive off the screen...whatsa matter, no gas in the tank...need an overhaul...?

I've been thinking about changing it...it's kinda busy...but I got such a great response when I first put it up...hmmmmm...maybe I'll do some sort of animation with a CPU chip...

 

[Foocha]

Rower, your avatar is cool - I think you should keep it.

 

[AlphaTech]

Rower_CPU, how about making more sliding balls on it??? One per line?? Of course, you would have to time them so that they don't collide and explode, then again, that might be a cool effect.

I just haven't gotten around to modifying my avatar yet. Other items have been taking up my time. Things like riding the motorcycle . It is one sweeeeeeet ride too . Went for a few hours on Sunday, and loved it.

 

[Rower_CPU]

Food for thought....maybe an update to celebrate 1K...