Thanks to our buddy Bill Rabel in Seattle for the impetus to write this article. After Mark Anbinder wrote in “Call Me ‘Two Finger’ Mark” (2007-05-21) about how he was surprised to find himself ...

[Interesting Thing of the Day (ITotD) is an ongoing series of articles about any topic I find interesting, including surprising discoveries in food, geography, science, language, history, philosophy, ...

A mouse with a rubber or plastic wheel. When the wheel is moved on the scroll mouse, the content in the active application window scrolls up or down. Introduced in the mid-1990s, the scroll mouse ...

The time has come for phones to get weird again. Nothing kicked off the return of fun-designed gadgets with eye-catching transparent aesthetics and an LED “Glyph” system with the Phone 1, then the ...

Ny partner does admin work for a university and spends an awful lot of time scrolling through web pages and long document. She is getting RSI in her right arm thats very painful. She reckons that a ...

No doubt you use your mouse’s scroll wheel to scroll up and down in browser windows and in programs like Microsoft Word – perhaps without even realizing it. If you’re a gamer, you may even find it to ...

Nearly three years ago, I reviewed an early version (1.1b1) of Marc Moini’s Smart Scroll, a utility that let you scroll documents—line-by-line, as opposed to paging up and down—using the keyboard.

Sitting in front of a computer all day isn’t exactly what the firmware between our ears was tuned to do. We’re supposed to be hunting and gathering, not hunting and pecking. So anything that makes the ...

A scroll wheel (or mouse wheel) is a hard plastic or rubbery disc on a computer mouse that is perpendicular to the mouse surface. It is normally located between the left and right mouse buttons.