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optical is great, but I wouldn't reapeat the cordless. At the end of the day (or rather the beginning of the next) the accus go low and I have to stop working. Not a good idea when the customer is waiting (well I didn't throw away the old mouse yet).
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I defuzz my mouse whenever it deviates from its normally smooth as silk behavior, usually about every 3 weeks.
/ravi
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I guess that was exactly the question - how often does your mouse *need*defuzzing?
I can't imagine a serious coder who does it always and only on (e.g.) Monday morning.
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I agree. This is what I do when I am not using an optical mouse. But I'd say it is less than once a month.
John
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Does anyone elses mousmat get clogged with the same stuff? mines a fabric mousemat any its now gone grey-brown with crap. It originaly had a guiness logo on it but that has since been fuzzed....
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Fuzz in mousemats is an issue that's been kept under wraps for too long. Thank you for exposing this vile phenomenon!
Can you tell I feel strongly about this? 
/ravi
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Yes Fuzz and gunk in mousepads is a serious issue.
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Colin J Davies
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I beleive that contributed greatly to my 3 deceased mice/(mouses?) this year.
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Have you considered writing to your Congressman or member of Parliament about it. Its a disgrace. Possibly this Fuzz is being put there by terrorists.
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Colin J Davies
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I think that it is a government conspiracy by the Bush administration.
Duncan S.
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I agree!!! The mousepads are allways gettin fuzzy 
And what is the way to clean them up?
Bolti 
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I use a stack of paper as my mousepad. It's always available, easily disposable when i spill my drink on it, get food on it, etc., i can take notes on it, write down a to-do list, all kinds of good stuff. Tracking sucks for mechanical mouses, but it's good enough most of the time, and the new optical ones have no problems at all. 
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Are touchpads and those joystick-like-things-in-the-middle-of-the-keyboard-from-toshiba-notebooks cosidered a mouse ?
Mauricio Ritter - Brazil
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I think if you dont have the standard style mouse with ball in bottom (how rude) then its classed as 'another type'.
Jonny Newman
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SOT:
I have always thought a mouse that hovers or levitates would be nice.
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Colin J Davies
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Colin Davies wrote:
I have always thought a mouse that hovers or levitates would be nice.
Cool! So when you get drunk you are not sure whether it's the mouse or the alcohol that gives you the feeling that the earth suddenly lost it's gravity
Nish
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Born and brought up on CP.
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Pens - once you start its hard to go back, just like the mouse with the roller vs no roller...
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The trackball that I have gets gummed up every two or three days because I use my thumb with it. An optical trackball would be nicer. I do like the track ball on my desk because there is very little room for a mouse. It is impossible to play quake with though.
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I have logitech optical wheel mouse, it is great, but i have mouse pad with photo of boat int front of dusk  The problem is that when i'm moving mouse over black area, cursor sometimes stops moving, it is only chaotically jiggling around one point, untill i get off the dark area. Sometimes cursor is jiggling also when mouse is over dark area and is not moving  .
Do you use some special mouse pads for optical mouses ? I want to use some, becouse moving on table desk is not so smooth, it doesn't have so smooth surface
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You don't need a special mouse pad, however the surface does need to have some distinct non-repeating pattern so that the camera in the mouse can tell when (and in which direction) the mouse is moving. That being said, I have an all-black mouse pad both at home and work and the MS Intellimouse Explorers work perfectly on them, so I guess the minute texture in the surface is enough to be picked up by the camera.
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I have used both Microsoft and Logitech optical mice, and have to say I think the MS one is much better at not getting troubled by the picture on the mouse pad.
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I use the laminated wood surface of my desk -- never had any problems. It's good stuff.
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I've found for the most part, optical mice work the best without a mouse pad on just about any surface. I am using one right now on a terracotta tile table and it works great.
John
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John M. Drescher wrote:
using one right now on a terracotta tile table
Isnt that a bit too abrasive to the plastic of the mouse?
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Andreas Saurwein wrote:
Isnt that a bit too abrasive to the plastic of the mouse?
I just checked and the mouse shows only a little bit of scratches on the four pads that make contact with the desk. There is a small amount of gunk on them which probably acted as a lubricant between the abrasive tile and the plastic.
John
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