Greenpeace Ranks Apple Last in Greenness

biz.Yahoo.com ^ | 04/03/2007 | Toby Sterling

[Swordmaker]

Well, in this case, I cannot help but wonder if Steve Jobs turned down a “donation opportunity” and this is payback...

Rumor has it he did and it is.

[Swordmaker]

I bought a brand new MS Mouse to go with my iMac. Guess what was the only hanging app I’ve ever experienced on it.

The MS Mouse should work without a problem. What happened?

So I’ve gone with the default one-button (except for those size-squeezie-thingies) and am marching on.

Remind me again... is your new iMac an Intel iMac? If so, you already have a multi-button mouse but you may need to tell it that it is...

[IslandJeff]

Intel iMac, no differentiated mouse buttons on it, as far as I can tell. Love the little scrollball - works laterally, too.

[Swordmaker]

Intel iMac, no differentiated mouse buttons on it, as far as I can tell. Love the little scrollball - works laterally, too.

They're there, Jeff... just invisible.

You need to turn on the right mouse button. The default is that the right side is the same as the left side: "primary button." Actually the Mighty Mouse (yeah, I know) is a four-button mouse. It is touch sensitive as to where you click it. Click it on the left, it is a left button... click right, it is a right button. Click down on the ball, voila! a third button. The pads on the side a pressure sensitive. You can program all of them to do what you want:

By the way, try holding down the CTRL key and using the scroll ball... whee! and useful too!

Also, try holding down CTRL-OPT-CMD (The APPLE Key) and pressing the "8" key...

[IslandJeff]

Sweet, Swordie. Amazing. I was thinking of my mouse in a shallow, morphological sense.

The MS Mouse hung during an iTunes upgrade install. Why mess with what works. It does. Defies logic.

The “squeezies”, as I’ve nominated them, will just work themselves in later. Sorry to pollute your threads with Mac 101 freshman queries.

[Bookwoman]

I turned on my right mouse button a while back like you demonstrate with your great screen shot there, but not all my programs seem to recognize the right mouse button - notably my FireFox. It is really annoying. What am I doing wrong? Is there something else I have to do?

[antiRepublicrat]

Apple failed to stop using several types of harmful chemicals in its manufacturing, and -- unlike many other companies -- has not set any timetable for phasing them out.

That's because Apple rarely announces anything in advance, including its environmental practices. Of course Apple would get a lower score given that Greenpeace counts promises to improve towards a company's score.

It all boils down to: "Apple didn't kiss our butts, so we're going to rate them badly."

[Swordmaker]

I turned on my right mouse button a while back like you demonstrate with your great screen shot there, but not all my programs seem to recognize the right mouse button - notably my FireFox.

That's really strange. Firefox works with my Right Mouse button just fine. I cannot think of any reason why yours would not. Mouse options are system level and not under application control. Weird. I'd contact FireFox.

[Swordmaker]

Sorry to pollute your threads with Mac 101 freshman queries.

Not a problem, Jeff. I found that the "squeezies" are difficult to get used to at first and I turn them off on my clients' computers where there are multiple users. I got used to the amount of pressure they respond to and find them useful.

[guinnessman]

That fact that Greenpeace doesn’t like them makes me like my Mac even more!