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Friday, August 19, 2005

Mighty Mouse follow-up

One thing I'd like to add about my Mighty Mouse musings (parts one and two) is that I've actually found more reasons to use the sideways (left to right) scrolling functionality of the scroll nubbin on the Mac than I have with the Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer 4.0 I usually use on the PC (which has offered sideways scrolling for years). The reason? Two of the applications I use most often on the Mac--iMovie HD and Final Cut Express HD--both require you to scroll horizontally fairly often, because their movie tracks often run great lengths horizontally. On the PC, I tend to just scroll vertically in applications like Firefox, Word, and Outlook, and in those cases, the IntelliMouse scroll wheel gets a nice workout. But I don't use Excel almost at all, or any other application on the PC that requires horizontal scrolling for that matter.

Scrolling horizontally in these movie editing applications seems very natural to me. Indeed, I wonder how I ever lived without it.

And I still really like the little mechanical tactile feedback thing that the Mighty Mouse nubbin makes.

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