The Eternal Battle: Mouse or Touchpad

The Eternal Battle: Mouse or Touchpad

“Oh yeah, I HATE THAT!!!” How about when you are typing, using your mouse and unknowingly, your thumb brushes up against your touchpad causing the cursor to move to…who knows where, until you see your typing appear in a strange place.

Logitech Dongle

Unification of Sites, Mice, Keyboards and More

During this time of world unrest and other difficulties which are affecting our county at this time I thought I would write something that would be unifying! Do not get overly sensitive as this is not about political unrest, riots, or face masks. I write about technology and I have two unifying concepts in tech…

Dongle Troubles?

Well you know the internet…everything you read is true. Okay, you know me, I doubt many things I read on the internet. In 2016, security people found another security hole.  Can you believe that? It seems like this type of thing pops up on a pretty regular basis. And usually they are the mountain-out-of-a-molehill variety….

Out with the Old, In with the New

Well, it had to happen sooner or later. I lost a tech device this week that I knew well and held close for years. We first met around 2002 when I also started writing for the Daily News-Record. The end came about over the past month or so. It started acting “wrong” by stopping when…

Logitech M310 Wireless Mouse

FACTS: I have owned approximately 7-8 wireless mice over the years, including ones for my wife.   I am currently using the Logitech M310 on my Latitude D620 notebook. I have used it extensively for about two years. I bought it to replace a worn out Microsoft  Wireless 3000, with the big USB receiver shown below…

Select Text…Maybe

I recently received an email from Bev which at first seemed very strange.  She said, "Recently, when I select a portion of text to change it such as bold it, delete it, etc. — the selection won’t hold."  At first I thought it was just in Word and figured that possibly her Word documents were…

A Mouse with no Tail!?

My mouse has no tail! No, I do not mean the little rodent variety, but the ones fitting comfortably under your hand that you poke and prod all the time at your computer. One of my readers/listeners, Jenny saw me in a local eatery the other day while I was working on something.  I go…