I've been thinking about ditching my mouse, because when using it for long hours it gets very uncomfortable.
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I'll also start trying out a bunch of peripherals to see if I can solve some of my mouse-arm problems that way.
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By the time I awoke the next day, shook off the collywobbles and registered my mouse clicks, only a dog's breakfast of event choices were left.
But regardless of how many displays are hooked up to it, there genuinely are some interface niggles in this OS. Despite having mastered the basic shortcuts, I'm still having to reach for my mouse way too often, and the arm ache is starting to dampen the good vibes left over from my last diary post.
ENGADGET: Windows 8 upgrade diary: multiple monitors make my mouse mad
And if the shortstop feeds my daughter's mouse when we are gone ...
No multiple Google calendars in the Metro Calendar app, which meant I initially had to run my calendar in a mouse-demanding Chrome window.
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Whenever there's a hiccup in my Metro flow, I have to rack up around a foot (30cm) of total mouse movement to get my cursor over to the Metro panel and put things back on track.
ENGADGET: Windows 8 upgrade diary: multiple monitors make my mouse mad
Before buying, I wanted to put my hands on the keyboard and mouse pad, see the screen and listen to the sound.
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It's about the size of a computer mouse and if I touch my chest, I can feel it.
He also got me thinking about a box that has been sitting on my desk for several weeks: A Microsoft Touch Mouse, which features a surface studded with touch sensors, so you can perform gestures on the mouse, the same way you might on a touch pad.
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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When I first started, I was like a little mouse in the corner because I had so much drama in my life.
Unless I'm missing something, I can't run Spotify or play my ALAC lossless music collection in Metro, which means I'm still running mouse-hungry desktop music applications for this stuff.
ENGADGET: Windows 8 upgrade diary: multiple monitors make my mouse mad
My memory is that they were chunky machines, operated solely by keyboard - no mouse - with a screen where a blinking cursor invited you to fill in various boxes with your script.
Before KeepShot, I had a hard time imagining doing any book editing without a computer mouse, but after a couple of days with the iPad app, my fingers' on-screen gestures were able to create a photo book with no problem.
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"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.
The limitations to my system is that it requires wired connections and a half dozen control devices, a full sized keyboard and mouse.
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