I thought my puter was taking a shit! Turns out my mouse was screwing everything up. Pages jumped...kept getting kicked offline...pages froze...etc.

Anyway...I had one of those mouse's (mice? meese's) with the thumb roller ball. You didn't have to move the whole mouse, just the ball. I had my "back" and "forward" buttons on my mouse to the left and right of my "left click" and "right click" buttons. It was very convenient! Now I'm using the one that came with the puter and I have to manually move the mouse to move the cursor.

I looked for a comparable replacement and I didn't see anything like what I had. Dunno if they quit making them or what. However, I did only check one store!

What's out there now? Anything for lazy, not-very-coordinated peeps who like to leave the mouse on it's pad and roll a ball to peruse a site/thread? What's the faves and latest crazes?

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LixyChick,

Here are a couple of links for the Logitech Trackman Marble. It seems to be what you describe.

http://www.dealtime.com/xGS-logitech_trackman

http://www.pricerunner.com/computin...ce/55621/prices

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I could have you could sit on my lap dictating what you wanted typed.

I’m not sure those are the balls Lixy wants to roll this time, DB.



I think the key word is “trackball”, Lixy. I am totally with you on the advantages of the ball over the conventional mouse. I do a lot of CAD drawing and the work surface is always cluttered with catalogs, reference drawings, actual parts, calipers, etc. Real estate on my desk is too valuable to give up a square foot to a rodent.

We had a thread (that I can’t locate right now) about ‘meeses & marbles’ where I related my disgust in myself for waiting so long to spend the couple extra $ for the Microsoft Trackball Explorer. As long as you’re right handed and not a super-gamer, it’s hard to beat.






(I do have a question about your mouse causing your computer to shut down though )

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I have the Logitech Trackman Marble on one of my computers and it is great.

I hated those roller-ball mouses. Don't know how you ever got used to using that.

I love the mouse we have at home. it's wireless and it has little buttons on it so that you can not only click normally, but also to move forward and backward a page. :] I don't know, I'm easily impressed.

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