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Kensington TurboMouse ...& QuicKeys
Authored by: sf addict on Dec 31, '02 09:25:52PM

I use an older 4-button turbomouse on my home desktop OS9 system; I programmed it years ago for multi-window surfing (you *do* know that a click-&-hold on a link gives you a pop-up menu...yes?) & downloading so that the upper left button executed a global "close window", upper right executed "back" for whichever browser I was in, and the lower right button executed a global "enter" to activate the default button in modal dialog windows.
The close-window-with-a-simple-click setup had me well prepared for the advent of those heinous pop-up browser windows! :P

I've been using QuicKeys for a looong time too- in Finder on the OS9 box it invokes control panels with ctrl-a (appletalk), ctrl-m (modem), ctrl-p, (PPP), ctrl-r (remote access)- don't use them much since I got broadband; ctrl-s (startup disk), ctrl-t (tcp/ip), cmd-` (view as list), cmd-t (empty trash), cmd-F1, (set display to 256 colors so I can play Tetris), cmd-F2 (set display to millions), and a few other tidbits as well. Now I just wish QK had the same capabilities (or was easier for me to geek it out) in OSX on my TiBook-550!
I don't know how I lived without QK- ...oh that's right, I haven't! -been using it since System7.

Since I just recently got an adb-to-usb adapter and downloaded the latest MouseWorks for OSX, I'll soon be trying out the turbomouse button programming on the TiBook.

- sf addict
[Fun will now commence!]



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