Apple Mouse
In a bout of insanity a few months ago, I bought an Apple Wireless mouse for my Mac G4. I bought it with a wireless keyboard thinking if I was going to have so many PC’s, at least I wouldn’t have to have so many wires.
The G4 doesn’t see much use and neither does the mouse… until yesterday!
I just got a new Thinkpad Windows XP laptop that has bluetooth. I thought to myself, why can’t I try to use the Apple Wireless mouse on this XP machine? I tried and the mouse was recognized but it didn’t install properly.
I left this alone for a week or so before I got all fired up again, annoyed that my laptop didn’t have a dedicated mouse while I was at home. Google to the rescue. All I had do to was set the passkey to “0000” and viola! A new mouse is in town.
Of course, I still don’t have a right mouse button but I have the laptop’s right mouse button. This is obviously a decent alternative and something that simply wouldn’t work on a PC that lacks this alternative method.
I also don’t have a scroll wheel, but the laptop also kind of handles that with the UltraNav pad thingy. Instead of using it as a pointing device, I have programmed it to scroll as I stroke it up and down.