mousemats

[carmalee]

Do they lose their effectiveness over time? -

[Postdog]

You're still using an old type mouse?

[boxtops]

Yes they do, they lose their grip and get quite floppy. Yes postdog, I can't get on with the lappy tablet at all - even my laptop has a mouse plugged it.

[Buenchico]

Er, no!

You shouldn't even need a mousemat with an optical mouse (unless, possibly, you're using a very roughly-hewn piece of wood as your desk!).

Internet cafés and most offices no longer have mousemats. I've got one but it's solely as a way of keeping a bit of space (on my extremely cluttered desk) free for mouse movements. It's not actually necessary.

Chris

[Postdog]

which is what I meant, nothing to do with a lappy. Personally, from experience, those type of mice lost effectiveness because of dirt and fluff and it had little to do with the mat.

[carmalee]

postdog - I don't think so (major techno phobe) - it's a saitek - bought a couple of years ago.
Thanks Boxy - wondered that.
Buenchicho - put Noisy on the key board then I may understand the reply! Optical mouse - a rodent with glasses? any roughly hewn wood in my house is not used as my desk. xC

[boxtops]

It still works for me, I like my mice!

[carmalee]

:-)) boxy

[Buenchico]

An optical mouse, Carmalee, has little red light underneath it. (So perhaps she's a 'lady of the night'?)

Traditional mice, however, are masculine as they've always got balls down below ;-)

[Euphemia]

That's a bonus!

[carmalee]

I love the answer Buenchico! and yes, she is a lady with a little light - carmalee goes off chuckling into the night xC

[joko]

mats have no 'function' they are just a surface.

open your mouse and clean the ball and the 3 little track rollers with a cotton bud,,,there will be a sticky brown ring of greasy gunk on each one

[dotty.]

I have a Garth Brooks mousemat but it is redundent as I have a laptop and don't need it, but it still sits on my coffee table as a sort of, errr, decoration I suppose lol

[Hopkirk]

If you don't use some sort of mat, you will wear off the top suface of your desk.

[DaisyNonna]

How does one open one's mouse? Never been happy with vivisection.

[carmalee]

thank you for the tip Joko

[starone]

I thought a mouse mat was just to provide a flat surface for the mouse to move about smoothly.

[carmalee]

think you're right starbuckone

[emmie]

i have a mouse that glows in the dark, throws out different colours, bit like traffic lights without the stop, go, option.