Posts tagged ‘mouse’
Yet another blog post about Lion and scrolling
July 27th, 2011 at 9:45 am by Dr. Drang
No one really needs to read another blog post about Lion’s new scrolling method, but I feel the need to write one anyway. It’s a followup—and possibly a retraction—of a post about mice and trackpads that I wrote almost exactly a year ago. In that post I said I think the problem with the trackpad…
The unreasonable effectiveness of mice
July 28th, 2010 at 8:30 pm by Dr. Drang
I don’t want to turn this into an input devices blog, but Andy Ihnatko’s post on the Magic Trackpad—which, curiously, didn’t show up in my RSS reader until this morning—got me thinking. I still don’t think the Magic Trackpad is right for me (see this discussion), but he does identify an interesting niche for it.…
Magic, Inc.
July 27th, 2010 at 6:06 pm by Dr. Drang
I know it’s wrong to judge a product before using it, but I can’t help thinking that Apple’s new Magic Trackpad is a cool accessory that I will be avoiding like the plague. In the first place, I don’t understand the appeal of a trackpad on a desktop computer. On laptops, they’re certainly they’re an…
Goodbye to the Magic Mouse
December 18th, 2009 at 8:45 pm by Dr. Drang
Today I returned to the Apple Store to exchange the Magic Mouse I bought a week ago for a more prosaic Apple (née Mighty) Mouse. Not because I regretted the extra expense of the Magic Mouse, and not because the Magic Mouse is missing the middle click feature. No, it went back because of two…
Magic Mouse
December 14th, 2009 at 10:19 pm by Dr. Drang
The scrollball on my Mighty Mouse began acting up again last week, just a month after I’d given it a thorough cleaning. Time for a new mouse, but what kind? I knew from a short test that I wouldn’t be happy with a Logitech mouse, or any mouse with a scroll wheel that has detents.…
