Robert Thompson

I’ve gotten used to ‘natural scrolling’ on my macbook. The problem is that I haven’t gotten used to it when using a mouse. This means that when I attach a mouse to my macbook some funny things happen and it is a bit frustrating to use. There are two check boxes in OSX’s preferences: one for the mouse and one for the trackpad, oddly enough they’re linked. Thankfully there’s a product out there called scroll reverser that takes care of the problem. It allows me to revert the direction for the mouse only, and so far works great.

Apparently I’ve been spending my time in OSX gimped by an unnoticed mouse lag. There’s always been something different between windows and OSX when it comes to mouse movement but I could never quite put my finger on it. Was it the mouse acceleration curve, or something else? Just ran across some software thanks to reddit that makes the mouse feel a hell of a lot like windows called SmoothMouse. The only problem is…my mouse bindings for mission control no longer work.

Time to give USB Overdrive another shot…lets hope this reboot doesn’t kill the machine.

EDIT: Kernel did not panic….so far so good…