Having get used to the way Mac OS handles mouse wheel scrolling, I was wondering if there is the same functionality in Windows: In Mac OS, when you scroll with the mouse wheel, the window your mouse ...

I'm running several development environments in VMware Workstation 9. In each and every one of them, the mouse scroll wheel will make the entire virtual machine useless. If I use the scroll wheel in a ...

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 ...

Scroll wheels are one of the greatest additions to the mouse since a second button, but they aren't always great for scrolling long pages or for long periods of time. Instead, this DIY, hand-sized ...

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 ...

[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, ...

Microsoft Outlook uses your PC's default mouse settings. Depending on the brand of mouse you use, these defaults aren't always ideal, leading to unwanted scrolling in the program. If the default ...

After the mouse itself, the mousewheel is the single greatest navigation tool ever invented. Mine is spinning constantly, especially in https://www.pcworld.com/tags ...

Logitech's cool new Touch Mouse M600 is a stylish wireless mouse that lets you scroll rapidly through lengthy documents and navigate websites by simply swiping its sleek touch-sensitive surface. The ...

Four patents are awarded to the company for various technologies used over the past few years, including the ubiquitous iPod scroll wheel. Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding world of Google, ...

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