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Count me in!]]>Nov 9th 2009 6:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 9th 2009 7:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/using an apple mouse is like patting a dog.
it's sad that people still need mice at all. the only thing that really NEEDS a mouse is the web, and that's purely through flaw of design.]]>Nov 9th 2009 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 9th 2009 8:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 9th 2009 9:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/
Just imagine, the small screen, the svelte factor, the lack of any joysticks or buttons and then this mouse grafted on the side for some fragging action. You could use your feet and toes to activate any accelerometer functions.

man that combo would dominate ; ) ]]>Nov 9th 2009 10:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 10th 2009 2:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/
USB control interfaces are good, but once projects get very complex, they become useless. ]]>Nov 10th 2009 3:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 10th 2009 5:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 9th 2009 6:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 9th 2009 6:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 9th 2009 6:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 9th 2009 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 9th 2009 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 9th 2009 7:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 9th 2009 6:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 9th 2009 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 9th 2009 7:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 9th 2009 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 9th 2009 10:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 10th 2009 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/]]>Nov 9th 2009 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 9th 2009 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 9th 2009 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/
It was a gaming mouse, but the gamers puked at the visual so he painted it white and is now trying to sell it people writing letters and spreadsheets. Apparently market research showed they were less finicky about things like ergonomics, years of MSWord nightmare trained them to be submissive.]]>Nov 9th 2009 10:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 9th 2009 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 9th 2009 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Have you ever used it or are you just being a douche?]]>Nov 9th 2009 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 9th 2009 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 9th 2009 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 9th 2009 7:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/
I haven't used it since I discovered you could right click on the taskbar and open it.

In XP too :/]]>Nov 9th 2009 8:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 9th 2009 8:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 9th 2009 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/]]>Nov 9th 2009 10:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 10th 2009 7:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/
Not saying that isn't a useful feature, maybe the place you work at or bought your computer from set it up that way, but if you do a custom install it does not ask you to Ctrl Alt Del to login.]]>Nov 10th 2009 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 9th 2009 7:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 9th 2009 9:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/
You went back didn't you, yup I thought so. This is the same, something so bad that you just have to see it again!]]>Nov 9th 2009 11:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 9th 2009 7:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/No sarcasm. I really do love this mouse.]]>Nov 9th 2009 7:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/
Wait, no, we don't :P]]>Nov 9th 2009 7:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 9th 2009 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/I sincerely doubt that :P]]>Nov 9th 2009 7:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/
But that's just silly.]]>Nov 9th 2009 8:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 9th 2009 8:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 9th 2009 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 9th 2009 7:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/09/openoffice-distances-itself-from-openofficemouse-joins-everyone/Nov 9th 2009 7:44PM