Who invented touch pads
I'm visiting Lauren in Chicago. I remembered to pack everything except my computer mouse.
Teeny Weeny, Lauren's helpful cat, keeps giving me one of his toy mouses to use. I politely accept but don't tell him that they just don't work.
I'm not good at the touch pad. In fact, the touch pad drives me up the wall. It does not cooperate. There are things I just can't do with it. And with the things I can do, without exaggeration, they take me five times as long.
In fact, the Heavenletter that God gave us this morning was about patience. I have to tell you it helped. Nevertheless, I can't wait until I can get to a store here today and get a mouse. I will kiss its feet!
I have seen people using touch pads, and I don't understand it. How on earth do they do it?
I like the solidness of a mouse and how it so easily does my bidding. A touch pad is rather ethereal, wimpy, actually.
I think that people who use touch pads willingly must be from another planet.
I am confident that no self-respecting reader of Heavenletters would ever use a touch pad!
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The trackball was far better even if it was far from a mouse. But laptops are made so thin and light that there's only place for a touch pad. I get very impatient with touch pads.
I don't like touch pads either but I've learned to use them out of necessity. Maybe this is an opportunity to practice. One of the keys is learning that the faster you move your finger across the pad, the farther the cursor goes. So if you have to move the cursor from one side of the screen to the other you can make it in one move if you do it fast whereas moving your finger slow can take a number of repeat moves on the pad.
Unfortunately that's something you just have to learn by doing because it's one of those hand/eye coordination thingies. Also Lauren might be able to tweak the settings in the control panel to make it more friendly.
Touch Pad???? I believe Mieke my beloved wife is anticipating getteing a Laptop when she visits our Daughter next month. She saved up for it. If so I might have to learn "touch pad" or get an other mouse and stow it somewhere when we go holidaying. But as we are a lot older then beloved Gloria we more than Likely forget to pack it as well. Never mind, Live is still beautiful. Love to ALL. Jack
I turned on my touch pad, left the mouse aside in an attempt to figure out why all the angst towards touch pads.
Hmmmm touch pads feel like more fun. My fingers feel like they're dancing. With subtle movements of my finger I see the cursor miraculously move around the screen. I use a mouse almost 100% of time, but now I'm going try using the touch pad. It feels like I'm training my brain when I'm using the touch pad.
For design work, I have to use a mouse. A touch pad is almost impossible to use in design related work, where more precision and control is required. But for regular typing, browsing and emailing, the touch pad feels easier...and better for my body. The mouse keeps the hand in an awkward position.
Not all touch pads are the same. Some of the newer machines have really good touch pads. Gloria, I think Schatzi may have some settings that allow you to adjust the touch pad.
Dear One,
I guess that finding pleasure with a touch pad must be a very personal taste or, I would say, achievement. I would say the same thing with Charles comment.
Sometimes, engineers or designers have bright but not always very practical ideas. Touch pads will remain slugish very unprecise, and very moody. I carry a wireless mouse and a USB adapter. This is much more civilized and, agreeing with Gloria, I would anytime run to a computer store to buy a mouse. A matter of taste, I guess.
After one day on the touch pad, I'm back to the mouse, now recalling a memory of why I ditched touch pads years ago. Agreed, touch pads are clunky. It feels very clumsy trying to select text and drag things around with the touch pad. And then when typing, it's so easy to brush the touch pad only to find the cursor somewhere else on the screen.
Gloria, wait till you see Google Motion. It tracks hand movements using the computers camera and responds to different movement patterns. For example, to open an email one makes the motion of opening an envelop. The motion of licking a stamp and pressing it onto the envelope, sends the email!
Why, Senor, I never heard of Google motion! Sounds fantastic!
And, Monsieur, you see by now that One recanted about touch-pad! :)