BLOG HAS BEEN MOVED TO HERE!

12 December 2005

We all know how over time our input devices get contaminated by particles from objects that tend to reside in our hands in between acts of data input. Basically I am speaking about those bread crumbles in the keyboard and that slightly sticky stuff that covers the buttons of a mouse after a few months of everyday usage. Today it got too much for me and I gave my mouse a bath - disassembled it and washed all non-electronic components with liquid hand soap. After a couple of minutes and drying with a paper towel, all the parts looked dry enough for a reassembly. The patient lived on, giving a much more pleasant tactile feedback to its user (me).

P.S. It looks like I botched the clicking feel that a wheel of a mouse makes when scrolled. I've heard that it is actually better so, let's try to find out by trying.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I messed up the clickiness of my scrollwheel when cleaning my mouse the frst tie-- turns out I had just misplaced a small piece of wire that fits in the inner track of the wheel. putting that back fixed it.

12 December, 2005 04:43  

Post a Comment

<< Home