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Your favorite wireless mouse for editing in DP
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Re: Your favorite wireless mouse for editing in DP
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Re: Your favorite wireless mouse for editing in DP
You just got me thinking about something interesting. I am left-handed but I control all the mice, trackpad etc., with my right hand. Always have. But the Magic Trackpad doesn't care which hand you use. I tried it on the left and I was surprisingly good at it- maybe as well as with my right. All that signing with my finger at the grocery store checkout has paid off.dix wrote:Good to know, but no lefty versionSMS wrote:My MX Revolution scrolls correctly.
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Same here. I used a data entry pad at Goodyear that really didn't work with the left hand and just got used to it. For some reason, I started with the mouse on my Mac+ and never thought twice. So when I lost the use of my left arm, typing right-handed was the only transition that was easy—slower, yes but easy. Some key combinations are a real bear involving me picking up my left arm and hoping the finger stays in place while I finish the rest. I hate Option-click.Killahurts wrote:...
I am left-handed but I control all the mice, trackpad etc., with my right hand. Always have. But the Magic Trackpad doesn't care which hand you use. I tried it on the left and I was surprisingly good at it- maybe as well as with my right. All that signing with my finger at the grocery store checkout has paid off.
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Re: Your favorite wireless mouse for editing in DP
Just a note that the Kensington trackball software permits you to change the direction of the scroll wheel for left or right hand use, which I thought was pretty remarkable. Of course the basic device is ambidextrous.
If you get one, it appears in the software that the left button is set to "Click" permanently, as its edit window is grayed out, but as soon as you change the right button to "Click" the left button becomes editable so you can make it a "Right Click" button instead.
Also, the top two buttons can be combined in the "Expert" models to do something, as can the bottom two buttons when clicked together. It also can have "software/application aware" setups.
Terry
If you get one, it appears in the software that the left button is set to "Click" permanently, as its edit window is grayed out, but as soon as you change the right button to "Click" the left button becomes editable so you can make it a "Right Click" button instead.
Also, the top two buttons can be combined in the "Expert" models to do something, as can the bottom two buttons when clicked together. It also can have "software/application aware" setups.
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Re: Your favorite wireless mouse for editing in DP
Left handed here too, very left handed, but right handed with a mouse, probably because playing a guitar left handed involves fine and precise finger movements with the right hand.Killahurts wrote:You just got me thinking about something interesting. I am left-handed but I control all the mice, trackpad etc., with my right hand. Always have.dix wrote:Good to know, but no lefty versionSMS wrote:My MX Revolution scrolls correctly.
For DP, the best mouse I have is a cheap MS USB wireless I got as a door prize. Before it became obsolete, my best was the mouse that came with a Wacom Intuos, great if you have a use for the pen.
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Re: Your favorite wireless mouse for editing in DP
Just came across this app for controlling Macs via an iPad.
Dunno if it is good, bad, or otherwise.
Caveat emptor.
http://www.quadro.me
Dunno if it is good, bad, or otherwise.
Caveat emptor.
http://www.quadro.me
Cheers,
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Re: Your favorite wireless mouse for editing in DP
I'm wondering if there are any other non-Apple (ambidextrous) mouses out there that support inertia. Anyone?dix wrote:Oh, nice! Though both'd be nice, I might set aside the incremental scroll thing if I could have inertia in DP.Yes, the Kensington does support inertia.
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Re: Your favorite wireless mouse for editing in DP
My favorite "DAW-combo":
- my MX Master. The thumbwheel is completely useless to me because it's not comfortable, I use shift-scroll for horizontal scrolling - but the mouse is great, supports smooth-scrolling and feels great in my hand, I'm left-handed but have always used mouses as a right-handed...
- and my newly acquired faderport 8 ...ok ok it's not wireless
- my MX Master. The thumbwheel is completely useless to me because it's not comfortable, I use shift-scroll for horizontal scrolling - but the mouse is great, supports smooth-scrolling and feels great in my hand, I'm left-handed but have always used mouses as a right-handed...
- and my newly acquired faderport 8 ...ok ok it's not wireless
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Re: Your favorite wireless mouse for editing in DP
I love my magic mouse. I know that's not the general consensus around here, but hey, it's what I like. Maybe it's because I have small hands?
Don't go there....
Just don't!
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I use a MM too, but my hands are HUUUGE.Phil O wrote:I love my magic mouse. I know that's not the general consensus around here, but hey, it's what I like. Maybe it's because I have small hands?
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MM is my mouse of choice and my hands are juuuuust right.HCMarkus wrote:I use a MM too, but my hands are HUUUGE.Phil O wrote:I love my magic mouse. I know that's not the general consensus around here, but hey, it's what I like. Maybe it's because I have small hands?
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I just KNEW you guys would go there!
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BTW, I have an original MM. I don't know what the MM2 is like. Anyone using one?
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Re: Your favorite wireless mouse for editing in DP
I've got both. As far as I can tell, pretty much the same from a feel perspective Phil. But don't forget:Phil O wrote:BTW, I have an original MM. I don't know what the MM2 is like. Anyone using one?
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You're going to get us in so much trouble.
[back on topic] So what you're saying is the real difference between the original and MM2 is pretty much the battery? 6/half-dozen eh?
[back on topic] So what you're saying is the real difference between the original and MM2 is pretty much the battery? 6/half-dozen eh?
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