I was in the process of fighting with the library search functions when my mouse died, so I went off and bought a new one. Picked up the Logitech MX Revolution. Seems nice, and fits my hand ok.
One question- how do I get the side scroll bar to do something useful? Now it just toggles between apps.
On the upside, I stopped at the deli on the way home and bought a chocolate eclair and a quart of potato soup with bread, so I need to get my fat ass on the exercise bike so I can have an uber fattening dinner.
BTW- did you know that there is a spammer website set up for you to be directed to in case you misspell dictionary.com? I found that amusing.
ThymeZone
Just trying to help.
DASH diet = good
Check it out.
Krista
Mmm…sounds yummy. I hear you about the bike, though. How much do you want to lose, John? I’m wondering if we can set up some sort of competitive wager on this, as I have a few to lose as well.
Mr Furious
Is that the mouse for your Mac? What happened to it?
Jen
A trusting lot, us libs, aren’t we? :)
poliwog
The mouse should’ve come with an install CD that’d add onto your PC a Control Panel widget letting you assign functions to the various buttons. If you don’t find a CD, try their website.
richardofmystery
You should go to Apple > System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse. It sounds like the side scroll has defaulted to the “Application Switcher” function. I’d change it to Expose – All Windows, I know it makes my life easier.
Krista
Hey, we’re not talking big money here. :)
Blue Neponset
You should check it again Dan Qualye because you spelled potatoe wrong.
Jake
Tunch ate it.
Anyway, I’m pretty sure Macs don’t have mice. Don’t you just look at your screen and it reads your mind while making you dinner and giving you a foot massage?
Ed Drone
Actually, there are thousands of misspelled-URL sites out there, along with ‘sound-alike’ sites that piggy-back on legitimate web pages. Try whitehouse.com, for instance. It’s a spoof site that depends on the existence of whitehouse.gov.
Ed
John Cole
No. This is for my home pc.
Kinda pissing me off atm.
TheFountainHead
I like that mouse. It’s awesome. At work I have the wireless Mighty Mouse, it also, is teh awesomesauce.
Jen
Yeah….don’t leave the “s” out of craigslist….
But the dictionary one is funny because, well, it’s dictionary.
Punchy
With all the hills in that damn town, you’d be better off just riding outside. If you wanna get inta shape, hit those inclines in and around campus and around downtown.
Better yet, hit the pool. All-body excercise, co-eds in swimsuits, and no sweat-stained carpet and t-shirts.
Catsy
I like the feel of the MX Revolution, but I’m very reluctant to try it because I’m a PC gamer, and Logitech has retardedly and inexplicably decided not to make a corded version.
LiberalTarian
And toe fungus. Joy.
Nylund
install the disk that came with the mouse. It’ll have a utility that will allow you to change all the buttons to do whatever you want. If no disk came with it, there is probably some sort of utility available for download from their website.
Michael D.
[Channeling Kynn]: Why does John Cole treat this place as though it was his own personal Livejournal!? :-)
srv
The logitech icon will run SetPoint, and you set the buttons to do what-not. I’ve got the MX1000, crazy great, but if your display starts acting up, or cursor weirdness happens, tap the touch pad to make it stop. For some reason the touch pad acts up every now and freaks the mouse out.
TheFountainHead
Don’t let those FPS R-tards tell ya that wireless “is laggy” and “unresponsive”. The difference is often not there and when it is, it’s so miniscule it’s negligible, especially compared against the wildly erratic differences in server connection speeds. Logitech doesn’t bother manufacturing a corded model because there’s no market for it, and they know better than to believe the hype.
TheFountainHead
Things that make me wonder why people can’t see the evil for what it is.
Jamey
John:
How long does Michael D. get to parlay his one good comment four months ago into a full-time pass to demonstrate his douchebaggery?
wasabi gasp
You probably have to install a driver or something. Call up your Grandson, he’ll know how to do it.
srv
Well, you can say good or evil, but don’t say moral.
TheFountainHead
Huh?
HeartlandLiberal
I love my LogiTech MX510 USB mice. They are much better ergonomically than anything from Micro$oft or any other manufacturer. Of course, I just can’t understand your not wanting this stylish Apple mouse blast from the past:
http://lowendmac.com/roadapples/roundmouse.shtml
When I unpacked my wife’s new G4 years ago, I took one look at this lump of coal in her stocking of a new Apple and chucked it in the wastebasket, bought her a decent third party optical mouse as soon as I quit laughing and could run to the store.
Davebo
Logitech no longer includes driver CD’s with their mouses, at least lot the last one I bought.
And to make it worse, on the package they list a web address to download drivers, and the page did not exist on their site.
Because, you know, a CD would add 30 cents to the cost of the mouse.
And don’t even get me started on software that costs over a thousand dollars, yet the cd comes in a paper sleeve instead of a plastic jewel case!
ThymeZone
167 days, according to Rule 13.c.04
Unless he can get an extension based on IOKIYAR policy, or IOKIYAG, which is self-selected.
Of course, it can all be overridden by IOKIYAAFOJC, the Supreme Law of the Blogland.
Lawyers are working on the case.
What the hell, I haven’t been banned in a while.
RoaringPurpleEagle
The side scroll bar only visits macrobiotic diet sites, which apparently won’t be of much use to you, seing as you are on a macrocarbotic diet.
Davebo
Jamey,
If I were you I’d demand a full refund for that money you sent to John to help cover hosting cost.
Oh, and repeated use of words containing “douche” could give some folks the wrong impression.
And we wouldn’t want that now would we?
myiq2xu
You would get more exercise if you had to move your whole mouse (involving hand and arm) instead just your thumb.
This assumes, of course, that you aren’t soooo lazy that you’ve been using a Logitech Trackball mouse for the last 10 years like I have.
BTW – My right thumb is undefeated at thumb-wrestling and looks pumped-up compared to my left thumb. And I’m left-handed!
Punchy
It’s a mushroom
Jen
myiq, have you noticed that your Goldberg Principle got picked up by no less than Dave Neiwert?
Also, I have prompted him to get Balloon Juice properly blogrolled. You’re welcome.
Face
Not…getting…..the full acronym here….
Arrogant Fucking O-hole?
Airheaded Fool of One?
Awesome Friend of Ours?
qkslvrwolf
They don’t tend to include drivers for their mice because you can usually get away with the drivers built-in with windows.
You should be able to go into control panel and just open the mouse applet and fix it from there. If it does turn out that you need drivers, doing a google search yields this site.
If I were you, though, I’d attempt to avoid installing that whole package or see if you can’t just extract the actual driver files from it (usually a .inf file), or see if it works with any windows native drivers, because logitech’s bullshit “mouseware” is utter crap. Never, never install software that runs in the background for no good reason. If you have more than about 5 icons in your taskbar on a desktop, or 6-7 on a laptop, you’re doing something wrong. IMNVHO.
Love the blog, btw.
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
“A friend of”, Face.
TheFountainHead
Actually, that’s a Morel, but I applaud your intent.
wasabi gasp
I thing the F stands for Funbag.
myiq2xu
No, and you could have linked for me instead of making me search. Unlike John, I’m not concerned about my weight.
I’m lazy and overweight, I’m just not concerned about it.
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
Jen, you nominatininin myiq for BJ status?
What does his title get to be?
I know his motto: “first in anger”
/runs away :P
wasabi gasp
All of a sudden I’m Ricky Ricardo.
RSA
Yes, and the semi-dangerous ones, for Web novices, are URLs that are misspellings of online bank sites designed to look very similar to the real thing. Ah, phishing. . . The financial sites I use have stopped allowing user and password entry on their main page; they now direct me to a secure page first.
Fe E
Going back to atopic from yesterday,
Here’s why the stimulus checks should go to those who make more than $75k
Oh wait, amybe it doesn’t….
myiq2xu
If you’re not angry you’re not paying attention.
Come back you wimp! I’ll show you the thumb-wrestle version of the “Boston Crab”
ThymeZone
AFO = “a friend of”
I think you can take it from there.
One solution might be “a friend of Jesus Christ.”
For example.
Xanthippas
This blog is so oddly personal at times.
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
The question is, what is it you’re paying attention to?
I find it rather pointless, not to mention hard, to get angry when I’m watching Care Bears!
(god, I cannot remember for the life of me what that show was about, short of teaching kids the meaning of “saccharine”)
myiq2xu
What grade are you in?
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
Cue Apoplectic (or whatever his name is) complaining that, being in the fourth quintile, said bracket should be getting 50% or more of the rebates.
My bet on the reasoning: The toys that people in the fourth quint buy are obscenely priced. I mean, have you even SEEN the price of a PS3? There’s no possible WAY I can afford one now. I mean, what kind of toys do the lower quintiles get?? Ball-in-a-cup? Gimme a break! What are those, like, $30?? I could pay that really easily RIGHT NOW! You want the money, I’LL GIVE IT TO YOU. RIGHT AFTER I GET MY REBATE CHECK!!!
(I think that struck the right tone, no?)
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
We don’t have grades! It’s a special school where we do whatever we want!
Recess is an hour long! I can do some awesome tricks on the monkey bars, wanna see??
/my cat’s breath smells like cat food
Bombadil
It’s his blog. Duh.
Ninerdave
I like funbags.
myiq2xu
When I was a kid the only toy I had was “two balls and a stick”
I’ve had hours and hours of fun with it though.
LiberalTarian
I think it has something to do with the abundance of funbags and douches that can be found here. ;)
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
[AravosisMODE ON]
SEE, that’s EXACTLY what I mean. Kids have free entertainment right there! Democrats don’t care about the rich, they’d rather subsidize YOUNG CHILDREN’S LUBE EXPENSES!
[AravosisMODE OFF]
[Shutting Down…]
/ enough of that prick.
Emma Anne
It’s not in fashion anymore, but low carb works best for losing weight.
HyperIon
you mean, hours of fun with them, don’t you?
/prick joke
bago
Those typo sites are what I like to call ParaSites.
OxyCon
Best damned “mouse” eva’.
Jen
Sheesh, not one scintilla of joy at being sort of kind of locally in a really uber-geeky way that you’d never want to tell anyone you actually know famous.
demkat620
I agree.
wasabi gasp
Metoos.
4tehlulz
FUCK YEAH MARBLE MOUSE.
Mine dies a little while ago and I replaced it with a Microsoft optical mouse. This is a mistake I will correct soon.
Jimmm
No, Davebo, John can keep the money.
And to show you that I’m no douchebag, I’ll give you double what I gave him. Be waiting by your inbox.
myiq2xu
I’ve been in famous for years.
I’m very popular. In fact, you could say I’m most wanted.
The Other Steve
Amen. I have several of the Logitech G5. I’m so over wireless. Not because they are laggy or whatever, but because they cut out on you occasionally and you have to reposition the receiver or whatever.
I just picked up a Steelseries Experience I-2 mouse pad. This one should last me a good long time.
The Other Steve
Ah ha! Thymezone is really Mike Huckabee.
The Other Steve
Why aren’t you making fun of the Boycott Chuck Norris blog?
cleek
and yeah, Hillary must be stopped.