A rodent-shaped device used to move a pointer on the screen
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How can I select buttons with just the keyboard?
Many user interface (UI) elements or dialog boxes have buttons. I would like to be able to select a button with just the keyboard, without the mouse. How can I do this?
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Does the Microsoft Intellipoint software work with Mountain Lion?
I've been using the Microsoft Intellipoint software with Leopard, Snow Leopard, and currently Lion, to provide mouse cursor movement that feels a lot more like Windows. Has anybody tried installing ...
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Macbook Pro with Lion: scrolling via trackpad vs. mouse
So the default scrolling behavior for the trackpad in Lion is to scroll in the direction of your finger movement similar to the iPad. This can be changed in the trackpad preferences by un-checking ...
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How can I set a different scrolling direction for mouse and trackpad in Lion?
I want to give the new scrolling behavior in Lion a try (both on the built-in as well as on the magic trackpad).
But on my Mouse (a Logitech Anywhere MX), I don't want reverse scrolling. In ...
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Can I have multiple mice & keyboards for one Mac?
I would like to control two cursors with two mice in the same time, as well as have two keyboards for separate control and text input.
My goal is to have two users on one computer, so I can let my ...
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When MouseKeys are on, how do I click or move the mouse using AppleScript?
This post suggests that the command tell application “System Events” to key code 37 in AppleScript should move the mouse pointer one pixel down and to the left if run when MouseKeys are enabled. In OS ...
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Disable mouse acceleration
Is there any way to disable mouse acceleration on a mac?
Mouse acceleration is what causes the mouse to move slowly when moving it a tiny bit, and a farther distance when moved fast. In other words, ...
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How does HTML mouseover work on apple multitouch devices?
I asked about this in connection with this network of websites, but it brings up a more general question that I don't know the answer to.
Is it a problem that mouse over events are not able to be ...
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How can I make focus follow the mouse cursor?
I will often click on a button expecting it to be clicked but instead all that happens is the application it is in becomes active, and I have to click again to actually click the button. It would be ...
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How can I disable the trackpad when my mouse is plugged in on Lion?
For the last few hours my trackpad has been behaving terribly, jumping all over the place and sticking. I believe I remember there being an option to disable the trackpad when a mouse is plugged in in ...
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How do I clean the apple mouse so that it can scroll down?
My current apple mouse works fine for moving, clicking and scrolling down. The scrolling functionality with the tiny ball on top is not working while going down. I had the same issue back in 2008 at ...
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How can I increase the mouse sensitivity of Magic Mouse?
I have a MacBook Pro, running Snow Leopard and I'm using a Magic Mouse which connects through Bluetooth.
While I like the mouse, it's way too slow for my taste. Moving the mouse cursor takes ages. On ...
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How can I map a middle click to control click?
Just started to use a Mac for my new job and not being able to use the middle button to open links in a new tab is killing me. I know I can press control and do a regular click but it's not the same. ...
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Can I dismiss a Notification Center Alert using the mouse?
Is it possible to dismiss a sticky "alert" (from Notification Center) from the upper-right corner of the screen by using the mouse?
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Is there a 3rd party program that can change the cursor size?
I've always used a larger mouse icon in Windows (made it easier to find when zipping around multiple screens :p). Recently switched to using OSX and discovered that the option to enlarge the mouse ...
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Can I reverse the scroll direction of my mouse?
I upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion from Snow Leopard and all of a sudden my scrolls in the browser window (chrome, Firefox etc) have reversed.
I need to scroll up to go down and vice-versa. Is there a ...
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Need to set mouse setting to default
In no pop up when right click, I ask how to make right click. The right button works as the same as the left button and it bothers very much!
I searched on google and someone said he set the ...
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Trackpad and mouse require two taps/clicks to register first click
I'm having a horribly frustrating issue that I can't seem to work out. Here are the steps to reproduce the problem, which happens with both an external Logitec VX mouse, the internal MacBook Pro ...
