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of mice and men and women

nickyskye — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:22:10 -0800

Nine Ways to Make Your Mouse Roar l elegantly hand painted mouse l visual mouse software l Mouser: Operate your mouse with your keyboard

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By: humannaire

humannaire — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:38:12 -0800

Open a New Tab in a Tabbed Browser. If you use a tabbed browser, click your scroll wheel once on a link to open it in a new tab. Glad I stopped in. Good tip, nickskye!

By: Foci for Analysis

Foci for Analysis — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:49:10 -0800

Opera has supported mouse gestures for years. Once you discover them, there's no going back and you find yourself doing stuff like the /right-click mousedown mouseright/ movement (close window) in all kinds of windows that don't but really should support mouse gestures.

By: teleskiving

teleskiving — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:59:10 -0800

Since you've linked Mouser, I hope I can be excused for linking my own program, Type to Click. I haven't had a whole lot of feedback about it yet, but I think it's a workable (although still slower) alternative to the mouse for those of us who find the keyboard more comfortable.

By: PareidoliaticBoy

PareidoliaticBoy — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:13:32 -0800

Nice. Thanks.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:32:59 -0800

Once you discover them, there's no going back This is why I don't use Opera. It's just a gateway drug and I don't want to get hooked on that good stuff.

By: JHarris

JHarris — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:33:25 -0800

AH, I think I remember seeing Type To Click on Projects. Anyway, I have no problem with a relevant, comment-only self-link, but I'm not an admin.

By: teleskiving

teleskiving — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:44:31 -0800

Regarding mouse gestures, you can get software that will let you use them across all your programs. I used the unfortunately named StrokeIt for a while. I have no problem with a relevant, comment-only self-link, but I'm not an admin Actually, I'm sure it's fine - the "I hope I can be excused" stuff was just me being spineless.

By: Foci for Analysis

Foci for Analysis — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:20:20 -0800

Brandon Blatcher: This is why I don't use Opera. It's just a gateway drug and I don't want to get hooked on that good stuff. You don't believe everything that they tell you, do you, bro? Did you like know that less people die because of Opera than say beer and cigarettes every year? In fact, Opera could save the sanity and lives of thousands of people if it wasn't for the crusade against it. It's the truth, man. I tell you what, the latest version is on me *grins*.

By: Chuckles

Chuckles — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:16:12 -0800

I hope I can be excused for linking my own program, Type to Click. Very interesting teleskiving. I've had an idea for a related application for a long time, but it isn't really my core skill set. The idea is to move and resize windows using the keyboard. First, with focus on the window to be moved/resized, you'd hit a hot key to create a grid overlay, or even a pop up. You would then use arrow keys (or whatever aliased keys, of course) to navigate to the upper right corner of the destination, hold down shift, and use arrow keys again to navigate to the lower left corner of the destination. When you release the shift key, bam, moved/resized window! Seems like something you could roll into Type to Click pretty easily :P

By: Moistener

Moistener — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 18:12:35 -0800

Neat.

By: Foosnark

Foosnark — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:17:12 -0800

Opera has supported mouse gestures for years. Once you discover them, there's no going back Not really. It's a love-or-hate thing. Any sort of mouse gesture system just brings back memories of the awkward and disappointing game Black & White. And I fail to see how right-click, drag down, drag right is faster or more intuitive than just hitting Ctrl+W.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:47:07 -0800

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