Silent mouse - is there such a thing?

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Post by recordplay »

it would be useful for radio stations, We've got a trackerball at our station, but you still hear it clicking if you listen carefully
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I'd go for a good trackpad, set up to tap for left click, two fingered tap for right click... And if you don't get on with navigating by trackpad, I'd use a mouse for that, and use the trackpad as a huge but silent mouse button. :headbang:
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Ah... I see I'm commenting on a more-than-decade-old post :headbang::headbang::headbang:
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Indeed... funny what things people can find and respond to when they have a link to promote... but it's a useful thread with useful recommendation, nonetheless.
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Post by wireman »

comradec wrote:Does anyone know of a commercially available computer mouse that doesn't actually click? I mean one that works, obviously.

Alternatively, don't use a mouse...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/guides/keyboard_mouse/computer/win/win7/index.shtml
https://www.amazon.co.uk/USB-Foot-Switch-Keyboard-Pedal/dp/B008MU0TBU
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Re: Silent mouse - is there such a thing?

Post by CS70 »

Hugh Robjohns wrote:Indeed... funny what things people can find and respond to when they have a link to promote... but it's a useful thread with useful recommendation, nonetheless.

Well I've gotta thank thushara25 anyways - this gotta be one of the funniest thread I've read in years on SOS.

I wonder if comradec's partnership is still going strong or not.. :D
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Re: Silent mouse - is there such a thing?

Post by ef37a »

I have one of theses: https://www.johnlewis.com/microsoft-all ... lsrc=aw.ds

Got mine ages ago from Sainsburys, uses two AAA cells which apparently last for ever. Comes with a tiny dongle.

I got mine to replace a wired kbd and mouse for a computer in my living room. The trackpad does not 'click' as such but makes a very quiet, dull thud. Quieter even than the buttons on my HP laptop.

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Post by BJG145 »

To be fair, there's only one thing that annoys me more than necroposting, and that's clicky mice. I was rummaging through a box of them in my office the other day trying to find the quietest one, but they're all rubbish. I'm really surprised no-one has come up with a good cheap one.

(Forums oughta have a control for preventing new users from bumping old threads.)
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BJG145 wrote:To be fair, there's only one thing that annoys me more than necroposting, and that's clicky mice. I was rummaging through a box of them in my office the other day trying to find the quietest one, but they're all rubbish. I'm really surprised no-one has come up with a good cheap one.

(Forums oughta have a control for preventing new users from bumping old threads.)

Oo! I don't know? SOME people take great pleasure in pointing out that one of us has been 'fooled'. They probably don't get out much?

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