{"id":678,"date":"2007-01-21T22:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T22:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/my-mighty-mouse-is-not-so-mighty.htm"},"modified":"2007-02-24T22:17:03","modified_gmt":"2007-02-24T22:17:03","slug":"my-mighty-mouse-is-not-so-mighty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/my-mighty-mouse-is-not-so-mighty.htm","title":{"rendered":"My Mighty Mouse is not so mighty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--116942417538093763--><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/mightymouse.gif?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mighty Mouse\" border=\"0\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/11\/keyboard-error.htm\">My Apple keyboard looks nice but it shows the dirt<\/a> and is not the best keyboard in the world (the keys stick a bit).  I&#8217;ve also got mixed feelings about the buttons on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/mightymouse\/\">Apple Mighty Mouse<\/a> (wired version) although the 360\u00c2\u00ba clickable scroll ball (scrolly nipple thing) is particularly useful as it can be used to scroll left, right, up or down.<\/p>\n<p>Except that my scrolly nipple thing frequently refuses to scroll down &#8211; and it seems I&#8217;m not alone (a quick google turned up &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.co.uk\/blogs\/index.cfm?entryid=34&amp;blogid=3\">Shall I kill this damn mouse?<\/a>&#8220;, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mezzoblue.com\/archives\/2006\/08\/24\/mighty_mouse\/\">Mighty Mouse reviewed: Garbage<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crawlspacemedia.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/21\/i-hate-my-mighty-mouse\/\">I hate my Mighty Mouse<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; if you&#8217;re still not convinced then look at the comments on the Apple Store page for the product).  Previously, some frantic scrolling has restored action but tonight I rebooted, plugged it into another PC and was just about ready to accept that I need to make a trip to an Apple Store to replace it when I spotted the tiniest piece of detritus on the edge of the case close to the mouse ball.  After dislodging what I assume was just a few flakes of dead skin (unpleasant yes, but a simple fact of life), it jumped into life, but I&#8217;m a little disappointed as the whole point about optical mice is that they are not supposed to need cleaning &#8211; it seems that Apple&#8217;s design looks great on the surface but merely replaces a dirty ball on the bottom of the mouse with a similar one on the top.<\/p>\n<p>It gets worse as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crawlspacemedia.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/21\/i-hate-my-mighty-mouse\/#comment-3242\">anecdotal reports<\/a> suggest that scroll ball issues (even after just a few months) are not covered under warranty as they classified as &#8220;wear and tear&#8221;.   Hmmm.  Apple have published advice on <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.info.apple.com\/article.html?artnum=302417\">how to clean your Mighty Mouse<\/a> though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Apple keyboard looks nice but it shows the dirt and is not the best keyboard in the world (the keys stick a bit). I&#8217;ve also got mixed feelings about the buttons on my Apple Mighty Mouse (wired version) although the 360\u00c2\u00ba clickable scroll ball (scrolly nipple thing) is particularly useful as it can be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/my-mighty-mouse-is-not-so-mighty.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Mighty Mouse is not so mighty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-macintosh"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>My Mighty Mouse is not so mighty - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/my-mighty-mouse-is-not-so-mighty.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"My Mighty Mouse is not so mighty - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My Apple keyboard looks nice but it shows the dirt and is not the best keyboard in the world (the keys stick a bit). 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