http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/Nov 6th 2009 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/
Apple Magic Mouse, eat your heart out!]]>Nov 6th 2009 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/Nov 6th 2009 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/Nov 6th 2009 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/
Fight!]]>Nov 6th 2009 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/Nov 6th 2009 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/Nov 6th 2009 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/Nov 6th 2009 4:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/Nov 6th 2009 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/Nov 6th 2009 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.journeyed.com/item/Microsoft/Office%20Standard/87011473LARS]]>Nov 6th 2009 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/Nov 6th 2009 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/Nov 6th 2009 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/Nov 6th 2009 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/Nov 6th 2009 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/
I'm wondering if you could get two, and then use them as your keyboard!]]>Nov 6th 2009 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/
It had to continue with that OpenOffice tradition to get the branding.
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http://img29.imageshack.us/i/mousecad.jpg/
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The design of the keyboard, qwerty layout, placement of keys, ergonomics, and so on, has undergone more than 100 years of trial and error to get us where we are today. Do you think that the OpenOffice mouse, which is a rejection of everything that makes sense in a mouse, should skirt that?

I oppose you and your mousal anarchism! Trotskyite! ]]>Nov 6th 2009 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/Nov 6th 2009 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/
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I'm pretty sure I could get used to this.]]>Nov 6th 2009 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/Nov 6th 2009 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/You'll have at least two, probably three fingers up there. Each finger is responsible for a 3x3 grid of buttons. I can operate the calculator that I use _maybe_ once a week with one finger without looking at the buttons, and that's a 4x4 grid. And a couple arrow keys up near the top. I can operate a TV remote control with one finger without looking, and that's probably 20+ buttons. You can't do 9?

Hell, I can even manage (with some difficulty) to type with 2 or 3 fingers without looking. Hell even if I did look it wouldn't help much - keyboard is labeled in QWERTY but I type in Dvorak.

I think the concern is more the size of the buttons than the amount. They could probably throw a decent bit more on there and you could still use it just fine, assuming the buttons were large enough to actually press (...which at that point they wouldn't be)]]>Nov 6th 2009 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/
I can't believe I actually had to type this, but I guess no matter how ridiculous an idea is, someone will defend it like crazy.]]>Nov 6th 2009 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/
Seriously though, how could you possibly expect to be accustomed to this when it has only just come out, Mark? Do you really think people are not capable of getting used to using it?

If so, then I hereby declare, on your behalf, that all future versions of computers, Windows, Mac OS, Linux and Firefox should be cancelled as no one is, at this point in time, used to using them and it will take time to get used to them.]]>Nov 6th 2009 5:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/


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noob]]>Nov 6th 2009 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/
not that you couldnt learn to use it without looking.]]>Nov 6th 2009 6:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/Nov 6th 2009 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/
you can choose what each button does making it easier to remember becasue each button does what you want it to.]]>Nov 6th 2009 10:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/Nov 9th 2009 10:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/Nov 6th 2009 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/
so true

I think the colors on this mouse make it look pretty cheap. If they made it all gunmetal and black and red like a hot gaming mouse it would probably be received better... Hell as a gaming mouse instead of productivity mouse it would probably be received better.

How many people in an office environment could learn to use a crazy mouse like this when so many people are barely computer literate enough to use email and word processors?]]>Nov 6th 2009 6:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/Nov 6th 2009 7:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/Nov 6th 2009 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/Nov 6th 2009 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/
Is charging the batteries that much fun?]]>Nov 6th 2009 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/

Forget the buttons, this mouse reminds me of the 80'. I picture this mouse next to a Pentium 90...]]>Nov 6th 2009 5:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/Nov 6th 2009 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/Nov 6th 2009 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/Nov 6th 2009 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/Nov 6th 2009 4:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/Nov 6th 2009 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/Nov 6th 2009 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free-isnt-pretty/
Imagine them giving this to Milton...]]>Nov 6th 2009 6:56PM