Advanced mouse productivity [Hack Your Day]
One of my first posts here on Hack Your Day was about buying a new Technica, simple 3 button mouse, and how that’s all I need. Well it was, until I had enough of always needing to change batteries. More specifically I had enough of never having batteries at hand. I went out and bought myself a Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 8000.
This mouse has 5 buttons, side scrolling and it has an awesome charging pad which is not the stand up thing most people have, but a simple pad you just put the mouse on. One of the best things about it hardware-wise is that it works with Bluetooth, meaning you won’t have to plug in a receiver if you have Bluetooth built in.
What really made my day productive was the software Microsoft bundled with the product. You can customize all buttons, like make the left mouse button be a shift button, or the right mouse button become an enter button. What’s even better though is the applications specific configurations.
When using notepad for example for html editing I never actually use the right mouse button. There are however three actions I do very often. Cut, paste, and delete. I have set up my mouse so that the right mouse button deletes, the 4th button (found on the top left) is copy, and the 5th button (on the top right) is paste. This way I don’t even need to touch the keyboard for many operations, saving me time, energy and making me productive.
Since you can customize this for any application you can create some new controls for Media Player, Photoshop, Word, and you won’t have to switch between these, as this is done automatically when the specific window is on focus. I have to give it to Microsoft, this is a great product!
Original post here: Daniel
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