{"id":148,"date":"2005-06-15T21:06:03","date_gmt":"2005-06-16T00:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=148"},"modified":"2005-06-15T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-16T00:07:00","slug":"the-mouse-evolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"The mouse evolved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">S<\/span>lashdot has a discussion about <a href=\"http:\/\/hardware.slashdot.org\/hardware\/05\/06\/15\/1444252.shtml?tid=227&#038;tid=137\">mice with a scrollpad<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.logitech.com\/index.cfm\/products\/details\/US\/EN,CRID=3,CONTENTID=9508\">images here<\/a>), which functions as a vertical\/horizontal &#8216;scrollwheel&#8217;. Meaning that besides scrolling up and down, it also allows the user to scroll left and right. Uh. It&#8217;s like a touchpad, the ones you regularly find on laptops.\n<\/p>\n<p>I think that&#8217;s the worst invention one can think of: integrating a &#8216;touchpad&#8217; on a mouse. Every laptop I tried (and used) I <em>ignored<\/em> those things.\n<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a far better idea for simulating that scrolling movement: put a small stick on it. Remember the IBM laptops with their red &#8216;pointer sticks&#8217;? It probably works better as a third button too. Plus gives you the additional advantage of having two mice on one mouse. Tired of moving the mouse, just switch back to the pointer stick mouse.\n<\/p>\n<p>Oh. And: <a href=\"http:\/\/pharyngula.org\/index\/weblog\/comments\/if_you_doubt_this_is_possible_how_is_it_there_are_pygmies_dwarfs\/\">And how is it that there are PYGMEES + DWARFS??!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slashdot has a discussion about mice with a scrollpad (images here), which functions as a vertical\/horizontal &#8216;scrollwheel&#8217;. Meaning that besides scrolling up and down, it also allows the user to scroll left and right. Uh. It&#8217;s like a touchpad, the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=148\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}