In game, the location was more familiar to me as I treated it more like a gaming mouse.
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When I first started, I was like a little mouse in the corner because I had so much drama in my life.
Then a puppeteer, wielding a device called a Waldo, somewhat like a computer mouse, worked the face, opening the mouth, raising the eyebrows, distorting the perspective.
The on-board ATMega32u4 communicates with your computer using the Human Interface Device (HID) protocol which means that it can act like a keyboard or mouse.
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For instance, you can perform a keyboard or mouse function, launch a program, switch profiles or even tweak settings on another connected Razer product (like a standalone gaming mouse).
Second, newer approaches to CAPTCHA have been developed that try a different approach to a Turing test by asking users to perform operations through input devices, like a keyboard or mouse.
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Of course the Mac was created in part as sort of a backlash against the command line interface of DOS (typing long strings of complicated computing commands, not pointing and clicking with a mouse like we're used to now), though Mac OS X now boasts a Unix Shell terminal with its own command line interface.
Formed seemingly from a single block of Lucite, the new mouse looks more like a drop of mercury than an input device.
"It's like a game of cat and mouse to see who can win, " he says.
On my 1, 920 x 1, 200 screen, the mouse cursor looks like a giant fat finger trying to squash a lilliputian commenter.
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But he warned that the effects may be less pronounced in humans, saying "an enriched mouse is more like a normal human".
Prices, even the dealers' true cost, are now laid bare with the click of a mouse on sites like Kelley's Blue Book and Microsoft's CarPoint.
In any event, other trends suggest that for every Timmy Willie, there is a Johnny Town-Mouse: many people like urban life and want to go on living in a city, particularly the centre.
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Diamond provides a 3-in-1 remote that features a keyboard, mouse and motion control, allowing you to use your television like a computer device or a game console.
From a design standpoint, the new mouse is a far cry from the round mouse with its color-coded side panels that look like they were attached with Elmer's Glue.
Travelling with the message is an attachment that, when clicked, launches animation of a bouncing Pikachu - the yellow mouse-like Pokemon that fights with electricity.
" Working with post-Smiths bands like Modest Mouse or the Cribs, his goal as a guitarist, he said, was to "hide in the shadows, to do something meaningful and expressive.
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Radiologist Suzanne LeBlang is moving a mouse and firing away, feeling a bit like her kids do playing videogames.
It works like this: After downloading a tiny bit of software, users mouse over any word on any Web page, within any e-mail, within any document, hit the "Alt" key and automatically get an Answers.com page with information described above.
Right clicking requires a lifting of the left click finger, just like the Mighty Mouse, though all-in-all it feels much less frustrating to use than the Mighty Mouse, which almost seems to rage against the click at times.
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In a deal poised to shift the media landscape, Netflix confirmed plans for an instant streaming service that would allow its subscribers to watch popular flicks like Iron Man 2 and Dinner for Schmucks at the click of a mouse.
His mouse was a bulky, rectangular affair, with what looked like steel roller-skate wheels.
"My dream is that these transposable elements will be tools that we can use to make the mouse more like the fruit fly, " says David Largaespada, a researcher at the University of Minnesota.
We underestimate the value of a gamepad or mouse-keyboard set-up and look to things like touch or motion as better replacements.
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With a multi-touch display - no keyboard or mouse here -- housed in what looks in size and shape like a chic coffee table, the company hope that the table-style computer will change the face of computing at the office and in the home over the next decade.
The buttons and trackpad feel a bit like a low-end netbook, and we had to do some fiddling to get that mouse across the desktop.
In fact, touch computing has eliminated the mouse on mobile devices and speech recognition like Siri and Evi could eliminate the need for a keyboard.
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Put a Cius into its dock with a landline handset connected to a monitor, keyboard and mouse, and it could load your virtual Mac or Windows desktop and act just like a traditional PC as well as a desk phone.
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