Apple and Mighty Mouse

[Buffy]

I smell a Mac mini!

Actually its a floor-standing G4...

 

Towering Infernal Computer,

Buffy

[alexander]

shesh, you should see my hair when it's shorter and more of it is spiked up ;)

 

nope, t, MBP here :P

[alexander]

which G4, the whe green or the silver one, or is it one of those silver silver ones with 2 procs, or a newer one with like 1+ghz ones?

[Buffy]

which G4, the whe green or the silver one, or is it one of those silver silver ones with 2 procs, or a newer one with like 1+ghz ones?

Silver/gray. I honestly don't know whether it has 1 or 2 processors in it, and don't really care since about the only thing it gets used for is testing our web app on Safari and Firefox/Mac! :P

 

Testing 1, 2, 3,

Buffy

[CraigD]

In defiance of the findings of decades of ergonomic studies, I just don’t like mice. I like trackballs a little better, the thumb-balled more than the finger-balled ones, and center-of-the palmrest skidpads found on most laptops even more. So, usually, I prefer using a laptop to a desktop.

 

My true preference is to keep my hands on the keyboard and do everything with accelerator/shortcuts – at work, my coworkers occasionally visit, sometime bringing guests, to marvel at how little I use my mouse (a ratty OEM commodity, ball-bottomed one I replaced my favorite 3-buttoned Logitech thumb trackball with when one of its little rollers finally cracked, killing it).

 

A surprising number of people, even app developers, appear to be unaware that keyboard accelerators even exists – which goes a ways toward explaining why they’re so awful to non-existent in so many apps. Few things annoy me more than large, chaotically organized applications that can’t be navigated without using a mouse.

 

I’ve introduced several html page authors to the joys of the IMHO underappreciated (and even more underdocumented and standardized) accesskey attribute – when support of this began appearing in the late 1990s, I began marking up my html-based note pages with it, and can now traverse them neatly with economical keystrokes.

 

VBulletin adds a few accesskeys to hypography, but I’d bet only a handful of members are aware of them.

[alexander]

lol i use keyboard shortcuts all the time, you should have seen my custom fvwm setup on my linux box. literally i had shortcuts to move windows to 9 predefined spots on the screen, and running 10 desktops with 8-9 cluttered up when writing something more or less complex was normal, yes doing as much as you can to avoid moving the mouse is great!!! :phones:

 

I use my mouse for graphic applications and such though... and unfortunately it's not as simple to define keys to do what you want them to in OS X.. :(

[Tormod]

VBulletin adds a few accesskeys to hypography, but I’d bet only a handful of members are aware of them.

 

I'm not even among them... :phones:

[CraigD]

VBulletin adds a few accesskeys to hypography, but I’d bet only a handful of members are aware of them.

I'm not even among them... :)

The only one I use with any regularity is Alt+4 (In IE and IE-using browsers, you have to then press Enter) for Advanced Search.

 

Alt+X will take you to “New Reply”, Alt+R clicks “preview” and Alt+S “submit”. There’s never, to my knowledge, been an accesskey for the message and title panes, on top of which, in an upgrade some time ago, title seems to have fallen out of the tab order. This is my #1 hypography ease-of-use gripe – You get one shot at the title after clicking quote or Alt+X (and tabbing twice), but I know of no keystroke that will take you back to edit it – I must touch my dreaded mouse! :)

 

If you view the html source for a webpage and search it for “accesskey=”, you’ll find often find all sorts of odd, barely or completely undocumented key shortcuts. In an application, including embedded ones and scripts, you can’t even find them this way, and are at the mercy of documentation or random key pressing experiments :(