I love trackballs . . . on laptpos. I'm not so crazy about them on the desktop. I've got a couple of Billiard Ball Kensingtons myself, but I haven't used one since I hooked one up to the laptops on the swing out shelf of my AppleWorkstationDisplay for a while before I last moved.
I was in a great little "TechServe" in Philly near my son's apartment. The salesperson and owner got a big kick out of the compliment, he knows David Lerner from the VAR Council or some sort.
Whatever . . . they had a fabulous lookin' oversize trackpad that is placed on either side of those ridiculous Aluminum Chicklet Boards Apple is foisting on an ignorant public. The oversize trackpad looked useful as hell! The only time I used any such a device was a 12" x 12" Wacom Serial Tablet/Puck combo in relative mode that was, admittedly, somewhat larger than optimal. It's still leaning alongside other goodies in my closet.
A 4+" x 4+" finger tappable trackpad right next to a NumPad Impaired REAL KeyBoard (chicklets SUCK!!!!!! . . . erm . . . need not apply . . . ) could be very useful for tweaking bezier control points if it were DPI adjustable on the fly, say by the positioning of the thumb a/o pinkie in one or both of the corners.
BTW: it's Trash or jt and it's not a very high bar, I approve of just about any hack! :lol:
That being said, take it over the top! Have the LED take on a color as if it were tracking the pixels on a screen filling color range plot! [
] ]'> If the ADB or Serial interface is up to it, use feedback from the positioning wheels or absolute cursor position to make the color of the ball match the cursor's position on the screen. I'll bet it would be easy over USB.
Bonus points for programming a black outlined cursor that fills with the colors as they're passed over the imaginary color plot dot in the screen buffer at the point and then trail the rainbow of what has been passed over across the cursot arrow's tail.
MegaPoints for leaving a rainbow cursor contrail behind when in cursor tracking mode! [}
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I was in a great little "TechServe" in Philly near my son's apartment. The salesperson and owner got a big kick out of the compliment, he knows David Lerner from the VAR Council or some sort.
Whatever . . . they had a fabulous lookin' oversize trackpad that is placed on either side of those ridiculous Aluminum Chicklet Boards Apple is foisting on an ignorant public. The oversize trackpad looked useful as hell! The only time I used any such a device was a 12" x 12" Wacom Serial Tablet/Puck combo in relative mode that was, admittedly, somewhat larger than optimal. It's still leaning alongside other goodies in my closet.
A 4+" x 4+" finger tappable trackpad right next to a NumPad Impaired REAL KeyBoard (chicklets SUCK!!!!!! . . . erm . . . need not apply . . . ) could be very useful for tweaking bezier control points if it were DPI adjustable on the fly, say by the positioning of the thumb a/o pinkie in one or both of the corners.
BTW: it's Trash or jt and it's not a very high bar, I approve of just about any hack! :lol:
That being said, take it over the top! Have the LED take on a color as if it were tracking the pixels on a screen filling color range plot! [
] ]'> If the ADB or Serial interface is up to it, use feedback from the positioning wheels or absolute cursor position to make the color of the ball match the cursor's position on the screen. I'll bet it would be easy over USB.Bonus points for programming a black outlined cursor that fills with the colors as they're passed over the imaginary color plot dot in the screen buffer at the point and then trail the rainbow of what has been passed over across the cursot arrow's tail.
MegaPoints for leaving a rainbow cursor contrail behind when in cursor tracking mode! [}
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