[BJungNan]

The round mouse is the most easily recognizable mouse in the world. When you see that round mouse, you know it is an Apple mouse. It's an ingenious marketing ploy via industrial design.

And that folks proves why some people will fall in love with anything even if it is round and a nightmere to handle.

Every nuance of Apple's products serve a purpose. Take the new iMacs. Apple has put the logo on the back of the computer. Even when seen from the rear, you know it is an Apple computer.

Open up the box to an iMac or a G4, and the first thing you see is a picture of the iMac mouse on the box of accessories.

The mouse. That round mouse.

Devoid of any other reasonable estimation of a movements worth, people will continue to flock to a bad idea so long as you reinforce their notions with images of it.

And then there were Fonts...

(skipping 1 and 2 to keep this from being a "hundreds-pages-long" post
...Solution 3: Remove the Univox font (if installed).

If you've installed the Univox font from FontManager 3 (Mac Fonts package, 2005 Mac Xware) remove it.

Solution 4: Troubleshoot fonts by disabling a few at a time.

In Mac OS X v10.3.x-10.4.x:

1. Deactivate all font management utilities, such as Adobe Type Manager or Extensis Suitcase.
2. Start Font Book from the Applications folder.
3. (Mac OS X v10.3.x only) In the Collection column, expand All Fonts.
4. In the Collection column, select Computer.
5. Choose Edit > Disable Collection. Click Disable, when asked to confirm.
6. Run the application installer. Then do one of the following:

-- If the problem recurs, repeat steps 4-5 to disable the User and Classic collections.

-- If the problem doesn't recur, the problem font is in the collection you disabled. In Font Book, enable one font at a time in the collection and try to reproduce problem until you find the problem font.

In Mac OS X v10.2.x:

1. Create a folder on the desktop named Mac Fonts.
2. Open the ~/Library/Fonts folder.
3. Choose Edit > Select All, and then drag the contents of this folder (fonts and subfolders) to the Mac Fonts folder on the desktop.

4. Restart the computer.

5. Run the application installer. Then do one of the following:

-- If the problem recurs, repeat steps 3-5 to move the contents of the Users/ [user name] /Library/Fonts folder and the System Folder/Fonts folder to the Mac Fonts folder on the desktop.

-- If the problem doesn't recur, move one font back to the Library/Fonts folder, and then repeat steps 6-8 until you identify the problematic font.

Note to Mac Users: You don't need a "hundred-pages-long" manual to operate your Mac. Just a "hundred-pages-long" Adobe Knowledge Base to help you sort out simple things like why a font crashed your Mac. OK, I'll be kind, the link is here (you know you need it):
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/323354.html

[Yossarian]

?!?!?

You realize that the Mighy Mouse was introduced in August of last year?

Oh, I see: its BJuangNan posting another odd anti-Apple rant thread.

I could post some strong anti-Apple rants too, but they'd be based on actual timely & relevant events, and as such, would detract from the spirit of your thread.

[SamAdams76]

The only mouse I buy these days is a wireless optical mouse. A wired mouse is old school.

[Turbopilot]

I played with a Mac a few weeks ago when a local store became a Mac retail center. It had that mouse. I don't know if Mac people just have a desire to be different, but that stupid thing was probably the worst part of the user interface.

First, there aren't any "buttons" - you press down on the mouse and the whole top "clicks". Which means you get a click any time your hand puts any kind of pressure on the surface on which it's resting. I had no idea about the "right-click" functionality but I thought Macs were single-button machines anyway so I don't know what good that would do.

Second, and more annoying, was that little scroll-ball. In theory, it's an intelligent improvement to the scroll-wheel that's in common use. But the implementation is absolutely terrible. The stupid ball is literally smaller than a BB and has no resistance whatsoever! You can't control it in any meaningful sense of the word. It would be a nice idea if someone would implement the same idea with a ball big enough and with enough resistance to control. It's also quite schizophrenic in that it works two-dimensionally in some windows and some applications, one-dimensionally in others, and not at all in still others, but that could be a software problem.

Sorry for the rant. It was the first time in a year or two I'd tried to use a Mac, and while the GUI itself was pretty much as I'd remembered it, I was quite stunned that Mac would release such a terrible product as the default mouse.

[HAL9000]

You're still whining about those old corrupt, damaged font files that crashed your computer when you tried to install them on a Mac a few years ago?

It's been well-established that you weren't interested in a solution, you just wanted to post incomplete and misleading accounts about your unique inability to use the Mac at your workplace.

[Swordmaker]

Some Freeper posting screed about Mac's Mighty Mouse... demonstrating he hasn't the foggiest idea of what he is talking about... Let's help him...

He seems to think the antique (1998 vintage) "Hockey Puck" mouse, which even Apple admitted was a major mistake when it replaced it after only a couple of months, is the be-all of all Mac Mouses.

Then he goes off on a screed about a corrupted font...

Weird... PING!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Tribune7]

The article is from March 25 2005

[Old Seadog]

"Here I come to save the day."

[theFIRMbss]

>Apple Introduces the $50 Mouse

Meanwhile, Nintendo is about to introduce a controller that is not just wireless, but can sense tilt and motion. I'm afraid machines for games are where all the interesting new stuff now makes its debut.

[Panerai]

Huh ???? This is year old news. OK, as a kid exactly how many times did your parents drop you on your head ?

[TheBattman]

Exactly why is the month+ old news about Apple's "Mighty Mouse" news again? The shortcomings of it are already well documented, and they have been available for long enough to not be "news".

[TheBattman]

Ooops - I mean to say year+ old news...

[syriacus]

I'm using one of these right now (in graphite, though)

[antiRepublicrat]

Hey, isn't this the guy who in a couple of posts went off on the instability of OS X, only for us to find out later he was talking about OS 9?

[CheneyChick]

you again.....

[LK44-40]

We needed to press the right side repeatedly to get a single right click

As a retired tech writer, I can assure all concerned that this "behavior" should not be a problem...from a marketing perspective.

What needs to be done here is what is referred to as "documenting as a feature."

The following line needs to be inserted in the text of the Users Guide: The new Miracle Mouse has been especially designed to eliminate those annoying false right-clicks by requiring confirming clicks in situations where the user may have clicked accidently."

[Delta 21]

As far as Im concerned you can lump all Mouse type pointing devices in with that ugly puck! I cant believe that 99% of the computer users out there still use them.
One button, two, three, with/without a scroll wheel, optical...it doesnt matter...

THEY SUCK!

[freedumb2003]

LOL

So much for Apple being "easier" and "more intuitive."

[coconutt2000]

A computer came in for repair that was almost impossible to figure out. When booted the video would be shifted half off the monitor.

After the usual trouble shooting techniques were applied it was determined to be a software problem.

It turned out to be a corrupted font.

I'm sure the tech who pulled that machine kept the fonts in his collection of weird stuff.