Rant: SheetToGo and an MS wireless mouse
SheetToGo is a program for PalmOS that allows you to view/use Excel files on your Palm. It's part of DocumentsToGo from DataViz (which also allows you to view/use Word files on the Palm as well - that's the "WordToGo" part of the suite). Since I'm an Excel junky (I find it easier to organize thoughts and ideas in a spreadsheet than a word processor), I really like SheetToGo. It makes me regret buying...I forget the name, but it was another Excel-like Palm program. I bought it awhile back and it was OK but not quite what I wanted for a Palm spreadsheet. Then I ended up getting DocumentsToGo for free with a new Palm. Sigh...
Anyway, that's not the rant. The rant is that when I try to adjust the size of a column, nine times out of ten the stupid program brings up the pop-up menu that assumes I tapped the column rather than the divider between two columns. It's probably something I'm doing wrong, but still... I still like the program, but that issue always annoys me.
As long as I'm ranting, what's the deal with the stiffness of the mouse wheel button on the Microsoft wireless "Intellimouse Explorer" mouse? I picked one up the other day since one of our cats has taken to going after my mouse cord when it's moving around (usually while I'm doing something vitally important, like playing World of Warcraft). I tried one in the past but discovered that the weight difference compared to the old mouse I had was adversely affecting my performance in Unreal Tournament 2004; having batteries in the mouse makes it a lot heavier and I had gotten very used to the lighter mouse. However, since WoW is my addicition these days and isn't a twitch-heavy game like UT2004, it's not as much of an issue. And this mouse is quite nice (though I disagree with the feature that allows horizontal scrolling; we really don't want to encourage that). But clicking the mouse wheel button is maddening; it's very stiff, and half the time I end up in "autoscroll"mode when I'm trying to open a link in a new tab in Firefox. And I do that all the time.
I like the mouse a lot, but that aspect of it is really getting on my nerves...
Anyway, that's not the rant. The rant is that when I try to adjust the size of a column, nine times out of ten the stupid program brings up the pop-up menu that assumes I tapped the column rather than the divider between two columns. It's probably something I'm doing wrong, but still... I still like the program, but that issue always annoys me.
As long as I'm ranting, what's the deal with the stiffness of the mouse wheel button on the Microsoft wireless "Intellimouse Explorer" mouse? I picked one up the other day since one of our cats has taken to going after my mouse cord when it's moving around (usually while I'm doing something vitally important, like playing World of Warcraft). I tried one in the past but discovered that the weight difference compared to the old mouse I had was adversely affecting my performance in Unreal Tournament 2004; having batteries in the mouse makes it a lot heavier and I had gotten very used to the lighter mouse. However, since WoW is my addicition these days and isn't a twitch-heavy game like UT2004, it's not as much of an issue. And this mouse is quite nice (though I disagree with the feature that allows horizontal scrolling; we really don't want to encourage that). But clicking the mouse wheel button is maddening; it's very stiff, and half the time I end up in "autoscroll"mode when I'm trying to open a link in a new tab in Firefox. And I do that all the time.
I like the mouse a lot, but that aspect of it is really getting on my nerves...
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