AppleSauce, December 2009 - South Australian Apple Users' Club
AppleSauce, December 2009 - South Australian Apple Users' Club
AppleSauce, December 2009 - South Australian Apple Users' Club
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Computing at<br />
Computing at<br />
Entropy House<br />
One recently spent a fortnight working on<br />
a client’s PC, with cumbersome Microsoft<br />
mouse, and, fortunately, minimal interaction<br />
with Windows XP. The buttons worked<br />
as advertised, but the scroll wheel did nothing<br />
with the software in use.<br />
Very different from <strong>Apple</strong>’s new Magic<br />
Mouse, a wireless device with no visible buttons.<br />
As with the trackpad on recent Mac<br />
portables, there are gestures to control scrolling<br />
and zooming.<br />
Douglas Engelbart’s original mouse had only<br />
one button, but they seem to have been proliferating<br />
ever since, with standard Unix mouse<br />
devices having three buttons.<br />
The latest is the OpenOfficeMouse, with no<br />
fewer than 18 buttons, an analog joystick, and<br />
support for as many as 52 key commands.<br />
Read about it at .<br />
One blogger recalled a mouse from the past,<br />
the ProHance PowerMouse 100, from around<br />
1990, with 40 buttons.<br />
Shades of the Space Cadet keyboard... Jobs<br />
was right to put a one-button mouse on the<br />
original Mac, and then wait for technology to<br />
develop.<br />
Magic Mouse gestures<br />
The first computer<br />
mouse<br />
OpenOfficeMouse<br />
ProHance PowerMouse 100<br />
November <strong>2009</strong><br />
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