-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2006-09-19 at 21:45 -0400, Ed McCanless wrote:
Switch to a trackball for a while.
Carlos, that's what I was about to say. Why is it that trackballs are used by so few when they are so comfortable?
Well... I can think some reasons. Let me see... they are not as "intuitive" as the mouse for a first timer. They are more expensive. The first contact will surely be with a mouse 90% of times. Switchover can take some time, as many things in computers (learning curve). I switched when I was testing one for a client over a week or two. We wanted a mouse that could work in a mechanics shop, with inevitable dirt and grease... and it did: the ball has little dots that are read directly without wheels. It took some time to get used to, but I noticed that my elbow ache disappeared. Instead I get sometimes a slight thumb ache. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFERG8tTMYHG2NR9URAkwaAJ9HFOzp6X9FGKBOCzbzAQ0QNYfX6gCffbq8 ykhHOTOGcUsM0g2r6Tfz83Q= =VpHh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----