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OS X even works w/Japanese mouse!
Authored by: dzurn on Feb 07, '02 06:17:46PM

I was in Akibahara for Christmas vacation and bought a tiny optical mouse, with two buttons and a scroll wheel, for my PowerBook G3 Firewire. The label was almost all in Japanese, but it did include a little "Mac OS X 10.1" label, so I bought it (about $30). The brand is Elecom, and it's translucent blue with a bright blue LED inside the mouse! Talk about snazzy!

Anyway, even though it included a little 3" CD-ROM with its (Japanese langugage) control panel, I ignored the CD-ROM and just plugged the cute bugger into the USB port and it works like a champ in OS X! The scroll wheel works in almost every application, including all the browsers I use. And a click-scroll scrolls entire pages.

The only complaint is that OS X has no way to reprogram the right button, since it's assigned as a control-click, but I got used to it. I'm looking forward to using USB Overdrive for OS X to do some reprogramming.

I also use USB Overdrive on OS 9 for my Kensington TurboBall. USB Overdrive works 100% better than Kensington's flaky control panel/application setup.

dzurn



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