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Mouse Explores New Surfaces
News Ever have the urge to run a mouse across ceramic tile, lacquered furniture, metal, photo paper or opaque glass? The Logitech MX 1000 laser cordless mouse is for you. The Swiss-American mouse king will announce an optical mouse on Wednesday that...
[September 1, 2004, 8:40]
Scientists Produce "stress-free" Mouse
News The mouse looks ordinary enough, but the exterior conceals a super-sensitive internal mechanism that can pick up, for example, how hard the buttons are being pressed. The new mouse, coupled with software able to adapt a computer's behaviour, could...
[March 21, 2000, 11:25]
US Report: Mouse Maker Slaps Microsoft With $1B Lawsuit
News The legal action stems from a meeting between Microsoft and Goldtouch in September of 1997, at which time Goldtouch disclosed the design of its ergonomic mouse with an eye toward licensing the technology to Microsoft.
[December 16, 1998, 16:51]
Nuggets: Sporty Mouse In Chrome... Darling
News The latest in Lindy's rodent range is the Cromo Mouse. Going ever so slightly over the top, the company says that the mouse is inspired by the design of classic sports cars and bizarrely states that its packaging "suggests the influence of eau de...
[January 17, 2000, 13:33]
Comdex '99: Get Ready For The Biometric Mouse!
News Third, and possibly the most important, some biometric developers believe they have hit on a biometric platform that will be widely accepted -- a fingerprint reader in a mouse. At Comdex, two biometric vendors, SafLink of Tampa, and SecuGen of San...
[November 15, 1999, 10:14]
Logitech Launches Free-wheeling Mouse
Talkback £80 for a mouse? Get the f**k out of here!
[August 24, 2006, 15:40]
Contour Lets Ergonomic Mouse Loose On CeBit
News All Contour Mouse products will be compatible with the Macintosh platform, and Sun, Hewlett-Packard and Silicon Graphics workstations. Ergonomic features in the devices' 'open hand architecture' will include elevated wrist and thumb support.
[March 7, 1997, 12:26]
Microsoft Mouse Sports Leather Look
News Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled a range of wireless keyboards and mice that mark the debut of a sideways-scrolling feature and the company's first leather-clad mouse. The three new mice products with tilt wheel technology are the Wireless...
[September 4, 2003, 9:55]
Who's In Charge -- You Or Your Mouse?
Talkback Ctrl+Z = undo last action (quicker than mouse) Ones I use all the time (and work in most Windows applications, especially Word, Excel, PowerPoint): Ctrl+Y = repeat last action (very useful for e.g.repetitive format changes: do it once & then Ctrl+Y...
[September 25, 2004, 13:31]
Logitech Mouse: Such An IFeeling
News Logitech Monday announced the latest additions to its line of optical computer mice: the iFeel MouseMan and the iFeel Mouse. When a cursor is dragged across an icon, menu, tool bar or hyperlink, for example, vibrations from the mouse will give...
[August 22, 2000, 10:54]
Who's In Charge -- You Or Your Mouse?
Talkback It makes my heart sink when I see people reach for the mouse to click on the highlighted button in a dialog box. The most overlooked shortcut key is Enter!
[August 25, 2004, 0:31]
Nuggets: African Culture And The Mouse That Sinks
News The blurb says this is the mouse to be seen fiddling with if you're a notebook user. Even more worrying is the claim ‘everything you can do with a mouse, PLUS all the things you can't'. In other words wherever your mouse is, your cursor will be in...
[January 28, 1999, 17:30]
Muscle Means 'little Mouse' In Latin...
Blog It's a computer mouse with additional electrocution circuitry. But why on earth integrate the device with a mouse? .because of the way they ripple beneath the skin like rodents scurrying beneath cloth.
[November 17, 2006, 13:13]
Who's In Charge -- You Or Your Mouse?
Talkback The F2 key in Excel allows you to edit a cell without double clicking the mouse. Ctrl Shift and + allows to to insert cells aswell. Very Handy.
[September 1, 2004, 9:05]
DELL Optical Mouse Problems Of Drifting Over & Off Screen
Talkback After spending over two hours trying to find mouse driver updates for my computer on the Dell Website which brought up over 250.000 answers to my query (! I rang my son who is a Microsoft Professional and he said the light coloured Dell Mouse Mat...
[March 21, 2006, 8:29]
Apple Releases Multibutton Mouse
Talkback on a desk with no space for a mouse mat and for people who have the sense to use only 2 fingers to move the ball and use the other 3 to click at intervals the mouse is an amazing investment for them and in my opinion what looksbetter a trackerball...
[August 10, 2005, 9:48]
Touchy-feely Mouse Heralds New Era On The Net
News The mouse uses force-feedback technology to provide surfers with a tactile impression of what they are viewing. Online shopping could benefit significantly from the new mouse, enabling shoppers to "touch" something before they buy it, but...
[July 8, 1999, 11:00]
Companies Warned After RSI Payout Over Mouse Use
Talkback I've long thought that the mouse is far too primitive a device to be used all day, day in and day out. Also, the placement of the mouse is too important to ignore. My mouse is on the desk, while the keyboard is on a drawer, which means that, in...
[June 9, 2006, 18:32]
Comdex: Punters Experience Mouse Sensation
News The FeelIT mouse lets users feel when files and icons are being dragged across the screen, drawing lines are stretched, or contours of an engineering application are created, and is seen as being particularly useful in computer gaming.
[November 20, 1997, 10:04]
When A Mouse Is Like A Turtle
News Consider the computer mouse, and you will be one of the few. After all, it's just a mouse. Now consider that a mouse ships with every single PC. Last year, Microsoft introduced the optical mouse, which has proved popular among consumers.
[July 10, 2000, 11:04]
