On 2/8/05 2:52 PM, "Jerry Yeager" <jerry at browseryshop.com> wrote:
> Hmm, well it can be programmed to act as a one button mouse if you > want. It could be useful for those converting from being windroids to > being Mac users that for strange reason think you just gotta have > multi-button meeces roaming around the desktop to get work done. > > I wonder if Apple will release this in a wireless bluetooth version ... > > Apple has also announced that the number of widgets available "out > there" for Dashboard has passed 1000. What is everyone's favorite > widget? > (Yup, Panther users can answer if they have any favorites, remember you > can visit Yahoo! and download and install the now-free but formerly > cost-bucks Konfabulator or use one of the other shareware apps that let > you run "nice" widgets with Panther.) > > Jerryh > > On Aug 02, 2005, at 2:34 PM, Rob Kersting wrote: > >> Wow... >> >> You know, I've been using a Mac for over 20 years now with great >> success. In fact, I have been able to accomplish everything I have >> needed to do with the single button mouse that came with the Mac. It >> has only been in the last few months that I began using a multi-button >> mouse, and only then because it came with the Mac I bought. >> >> And you know what? I've never been held back because my mouse only had >> one button. I've never been late for a deadline because I didn't have >> a scroll wheel. I've never left a project unfinished because I didn't >> have a right-click button. And I have never found myself in a >> "cranial/rectal" dilemma because Apple never found it necessary to >> move to a multi-button pointing device. >> >> My response to the announcement? Big deal. >> >> rob >> >> Jerry Freeman wrote: >> >>> No $*%^#! Mr Jobs, it's finally the 21st Century! I'm looking for a >>> redemption certificate under my seat. Also, FS: White, like new, >>> original owner collector Apple "One" button mouse (from the cranial/ >>> rectal period), less than 2K in town miles, always garaged. All >>> serious offers considered :) >>> >>> ...jf >>> >>> On Aug 2, 2005, at 11:57 AM, Ed Wiser wrote: >>> >>>> http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/ >>>> >>>> An apple multi button mouse. >>> >>> >>> ============================================================ >>> circumlocution \sir-kuhm-loh-KYOO-shuhn\, noun: The use of many words >>> to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or >>> roundabout language. >>> >>> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be August 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> >> >> > ----------------------------------- > Someday, I will come up with a clever signature line. I am not sure if > I will use it or not, but I will come up with one. > > Hmmmmmmmmm....................ya know.....I'm afraid it won't be long that we won't be us anymore........we'll all just be.........them....... > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be August 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>