I'm sure everybody's heard of the Mighty Mouse by now. Pop culture and pop tech news travels fast around here. I usually hear the same news four to seven times a day, every day, my entire life. If you ever see me parrot some stupid news that everybody knows by now, such as the aforementioned Mighty Mouse, then you can rest assured that I did it so that people would notice and stop telling me about it. ;)

Apple's marketing department is talented. I love the way the Apple website looks and feels, and the way they structure everything. That was a trip when their site went black while Tiger was getting ready for release.

I feel so paranoid.

Thanks to Tarun for the heads up on this site: XP SP3
Nice. Too bad the site has creepy Google ads (notice I dropped them) that always try to sell you spyware and crap. Yeah, get these registry cleaners that do more harm than good. Google, why must you only peddle junk software that tends towards scams and spyware? I never really see actual good software listed there. Ever. Stupid asses. Over the years, Windows has hardened itself against the number one threat to Windows stability that has ever existed: every thread or process that could ever exist that was not originally installed by your Windows installation media. That's right, you third party imbeciles, stop making crappy software.

DjLizard> did you miss me
DjLizard> or did you nearly hit me
ToastyX> I missed you, I missed you, now I have to kiss you
ToastyX> OHHHHHHHHHHHHH I GET IT NOW

This just in… http://www.start.com/1/ http://www.start.com/2/ http://www.start.com/3/ (and of course http://www.google.com/ig)

// 2005/08/03 —–

Newhotness asks:

not sure if you know or not, but is the mighty mouse only usable on a mac? and if not, is there any benefit to using it on an XP comp?

It works on PC as well. The USB Device Class Definition for Human Interface Devices (HID) (defined by the USB Implementers Forum, Inc.), contains universal implementations of mice, keyboards, pen/tablet, and other input devices that modern operating systems perfectly understand (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux kernel 2.6, etc.). You can plug a Windows mouse into a Mac or a Mac mouse into Windows (give or take features and drawbacks). I prefer using my imfamous Logitech Wheel Mouse Optical (Blue) on my Apple Powerbook G4. I have three Optical Blues, my mom and dad have one, and even ToastyX has a Blue. (Part # 830386-0000)
Using the previous Mac mouse in Windows really sucks… it only has one button (well, its entire body is the button), and no scroll wheel. It's like a cro-magnon mouse. Unga, me click-*pound*.

Using the Logitech Blue on that is excellent – scroll wheel is detected and used, second button performs command+clicking, which is exactly the same as right-clicking in Windows. Using this new mouse in Windows should prove interesting… 360-degree scroll ball. What if I don't want to scroll sort of sideways while I'm scrolling up and down?

Yes, USB keyboards are HID-compliant as well. Logitech's keyboards are sometimes printed with both Mac and Windows meta-key symbols/names, making them that much more attractive in the marketplace. Too bad I've always hated Logitech (and Microsoft) keyboards… suckers. I use an IBM Model "M" keyboard (no, not buckling spring version (the rubber dome version). I'm not into giving my fingers more of a workout than they already get when going 120 words per minute).