UncleBeer - Exactly what I would have said, had I found this thread a little sooner. I love having an instant double-click.
Sunlips, once you have the URL highlighted, you have to have your mouse arrow pointed right on top of the highlighted part and then right click to get the menu to choose copy. OR, the other option (which is actually much faster) is to hit Ctrl C on your keyboard to copy. And FYI, Ctrl V is paste, Ctrl X is cut and Ctrl A is select all.
And Douglips, I completely agree about the mousewheel. I just started using one at work and was reluctant at first. But now that I’m used to it, it drives me nuts to use my mouse at home that doesn’t have one. I wonder if you can get them in black. Hmmmm, gonna have to check into that.
Oops! I just renamed Sunbear. So sorry! LMAO at myself here.
I’ve been using the Logitech 3 button Trackman with the middle button programed for a double click. Got the new one with the scroll wheel on the middle button. Took a week or so to train my fingers but, once I did, it ruined me for other meeses. Got two other machines in the house without the scroll wheel and they drive me nutz.
JB
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No problem, Im clicking all over. I managed to copy an address, which you can’t read(unless you right click of course), but it should be a fuzzy picture of me.
http://njet.net/njet/images/users/00000122.jpg
Just using my right clicking practice as an excuse to stick it there.
Heyhey, I have the brand new super-expensive (to me) scrolly MS mouse thingy that’s compatible with Macs (or so I hear) and it’s got that glowy red bottom and two THUMB BUTTONS on the side I have as select all and copy. Love my mouse.
And as for stupid things with mice done, I frequently get tiny bugs that attach to my screen and to brush them off I wave mouse pointer under them. Sometimes click them. And it doesn’t work! 
Snappy
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Yup, that scroll wheel thing kicks ass. Once you get used to them, its so hard to switch back. My only problem is that IE5 seems to have 3 speeds, very slow, slow, and really friggin fast.
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The Xerox Alto, which Apple was inspired by / stole from, had a 3 button mouse. It was a concious decision of Apple’s to reduce the number of buttons. My guess is that they figured out how to do all of what the alto could do with just one button, so they left it at that and didn’t try to think of nifty tricks for the other buttons. (IIRC the altos mouse interface wasn’t real great. It didn’t have concepts like a click-and-drag or double-click)
And somewhere (maybe on the SDMB) I read a good definition of vi: the editor you use to compile emacs.
That’s one evil-looking pic, sunbear! Two parts Charles Bronson, one part Charles Manson!
Hell is Other People.
Well, there’s a somewhat nicer picture, of the same, in the TM page.
I had a trackball mouse, if that’s what you guys mean, for quite a while. They all have a chord at the back of the mouse end, my kids kept unplugging it several times a day. I took it off. maybeI should have glued it on.
Thanks UncleBeer and Nekosoft, but aparently my system doesn’t have that feature. I went to Control Panel>mouse, but there is no wheel tab on mine. I can’t imagine why as this machine is only a couple of months old and I’m running WIN98, but there you have it.
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