
if you have a mouse with extra buttons, and drivers that support it...
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Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:47,
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only use 3 and the wheel though
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Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:48,
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by one wheel... dead handy, although I'm sure I'm supposed to make more imaginative usage of them than just going forwards/back through pages/folders
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Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:50,
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that just gets in the way. I wanted one with a trackball, but ebuyer weren't selling them.
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Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:52,
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but I don't use hardly any of the extra buttons... I don't even use windows-key shortcuts
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Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:53,
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for along time because they changed some keyboard shortcuts. ^_^
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Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:55,
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I feel left out of all this "mouse" talk.
it's the same as when all the big kids talk of boobies!
waaaaah!
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Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:52,
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it's the same as when all the big kids talk of boobies!
waaaaah!

but it looks nothing like any mouse I've ever seen!
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Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:58,
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is it a nipple in the middle of the keyboard, a la Toshiba, or a pad you move your finger around on?
Or something else?
sorry, nosey
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Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:59,
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Or something else?
sorry, nosey

I'm using one of those on my laptop at the moment.
It is generally called a Synaptics pad after the company that developed them, and hold 90% of the pad-type HMI devices market, Synaptics Corp.
/geek
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Tue 16 Sep 2003, 21:03,
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It is generally called a Synaptics pad after the company that developed them, and hold 90% of the pad-type HMI devices market, Synaptics Corp.
/geek

it's generally called a touchpad, 'cause no-one cares who invented them, and you touch them a lot
:P
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Tue 16 Sep 2003, 21:04,
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:P

i agree with you justhere, knower of all knowledge.
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Tue 16 Sep 2003, 21:06,
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thats what most people who work for the Dixons group call them because they can't pronounce Synaptics :D
I mainly hear them called Synaptics, but then I work with a lot of computer geeks...
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Tue 16 Sep 2003, 21:07,
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I mainly hear them called Synaptics, but then I work with a lot of computer geeks...

I keep getting other fingers in the way so that the cursor suddenly jumps to the other side of the screen.
Hence getting the posh mouse that could do loads of great things, but only has one functional button.
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Tue 16 Sep 2003, 21:05,
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Hence getting the posh mouse that could do loads of great things, but only has one functional button.

it was fun, if a little pointless.
They were working on mounting a tactile array on one last time i looked.
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Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:59,
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They were working on mounting a tactile array on one last time i looked.

it's flippin' expensive.
glad i never started to be honest!
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Tue 16 Sep 2003, 21:02,
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glad i never started to be honest!

I might wear it to the Halloween bash.. it's like a cat o' nine tails
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Tue 16 Sep 2003, 21:01,
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b3ta donation hadn't cost me £38 in bank charges on top of my actual donation, I could have afforded to replace my current mouse. not that I'm bitter or anything.
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Tue 16 Sep 2003, 20:55,
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