MS New Mouse

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ast3r3xast3r3x
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
http://news.com.com/2100-1040_3-5071013.html?tag=cd_mh



Sideways scrolling...another reason for people not to have to worry about thinking when designing webpages that fit into the standard resolution.





I guess this would only be useful for desktop publishing.

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  • Reply 1 of 19
    pscatespscates Posts: 5,847member




    Black leather, huh? The Microsoft BDSM mouse. Great.



    Somewhere in here is a joke about using Windows and sado-masochism...but I'm just not clever enough to put it all together real cool.



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  • Reply 2 of 19
    markivmarkiv Posts: 180member
    Black leather, I think someone's been very naughty.
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  • Reply 3 of 19
    rageousrageous Posts: 2,170member
    I think leather was a nice touch, unfortunately it's not practical. Wait until someone is working with that thing using a sweaty hand day after day. It'll soak up that stink so fast you'll hear a sonic boom.
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  • Reply 4 of 19
    scottscott Posts: 7,431member
    Maybe it would make a nice **** **** if you're into that kind of thing.
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  • Reply 5 of 19
    dark seraphdark seraph Posts: 104member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by rageous

    I think leather was a nice touch, unfortunately it's not practical. Wait until someone is working with that thing using a sweaty hand day after day. It'll soak up that stink so fast you'll hear a sonic boom.



    I can think of another reason why someone might get sweaty palms furiously clicking and trying to close pop-upwindows of some uhh... sites..

    *chuckle*
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  • Reply 6 of 19
    baumanbauman Posts: 1,248member
    You know you can sideways scroll in OS X if you hold down shift while you scroll. It's pretty handy... that is if you have your other hand on the keyboard... and not... uh...
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  • Reply 7 of 19
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    Sideway scrolling sounds nice to me.



    Yes, shift scrolling works, but scrolling up and down to go left to right is highly counter-intuitive.
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  • Reply 8 of 19
    buonrottobuonrotto Posts: 6,368member
    Sideways scrolling is nice, but why wouldn't you reshape and redesign the scrollwheel from its current form when you do it? Seems like an odd way of combining the two at first glance at least.



    BTW, how many people actually use their middle finger on the scroll wheel? I've kind of wondered why it's in the place it is, other than it second as the "middle" mouse button, equally arbitrary. Always seems like an uncomfortable spot to me.
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  • Reply 9 of 19
    murbotmurbot Posts: 5,262member
    I've never used my middle finger on the scroll wheel... always jump my index finger over and back.



    I just realized this now, after reading your post.



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  • Reply 10 of 19
    rageousrageous Posts: 2,170member
    I use my index for scrolling.
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  • Reply 11 of 19
    ernest emacernest emac Posts: 108member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by BuonRotto



    BTW, how many people actually use their middle finger on the scroll wheel?





    I do.
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  • Reply 12 of 19
    madmax559madmax559 Posts: 596member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by ast3r3x



    I guess this would only be useful for desktop publishing.





    Grin!~!~..thats like saying theres no market for computers.....
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  • Reply 13 of 19
    chychchych Posts: 860member
    Meh, I have sideways scrolling enabled when I press the wheel in and scroll (thumb scrolls, MS trackball).
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  • Reply 14 of 19
    scottscott Posts: 7,431member
    That's interesting. I have my middle mouse wheel click set to command - "<-" (left arrow) to go back in web pages. I use it so much at at home that I use it on my PeeCee at work.
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  • Reply 15 of 19
    chychchych Posts: 860member
    I use cocoa gestures for web page manipulation, ie click and drag left to move back. I want more mouse buttons, 5 isn't enough 8)
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  • Reply 16 of 19
    zozo Posts: 3,117member
    middle scroll whell is Apple + H for me...



    I may change that to some "Expose'" shortcut with Panther



    oh yeah, and leather???? That is seriously going to be horrible after a few minutes of work. Imagine death matching! Christ, you'll never get that thing off your hand!!!



    MS Implanting has started!
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  • Reply 17 of 19
    dvlndvln Posts: 6member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by ZO

    middle scroll whell is Apple + H for me...



    I may change that to some "Expose'" shortcut with Panther



    oh yeah, and leather???? That is seriously going to be horrible after a few minutes of work. Imagine death matching! Christ, you'll never get that thing off your hand!!!



    MS Implanting has started!



    Sounds stupid... I rather get a wireless chargeable Logitech mouse, which probably costs less too.
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  • Reply 18 of 19
    aquaticaquatic Posts: 5,602member
    Quote:

    It'll soak up that stink so fast you'll hear a sonic boom.



    nice.



    Quote:

    You know you can sideways scroll in OS X if you hold down shift while you scroll.



    I had no idea. Thanks! That's cool. OS X is just as full of neat tricks as OS 9. Any more tricks?
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  • Reply 19 of 19
    ast3r3xast3r3x Posts: 5,012member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Aquatic

    nice.







    I had no idea. Thanks! That's cool. OS X is just as full of neat tricks as OS 9. Any more tricks?



    Tips or tricks...don't log in as root and delete the kernel!
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