{"id":31,"date":"2013-10-23T10:07:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T10:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2013-10-25T16:15:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T16:15:02","slug":"logitech-m570-wireless-trackball-infuriating-close-to-being-a-good-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Logitech M570 Wireless Trackball – infuriatingly close to being a good device."},"content":{"rendered":"

After decades of working with computer mice I have repetitive strain in my right wrist. It’s not too bad, but it means that if I use a traditional mouse my wrist quickly becomes very sore, with pain right up to my elbow.<\/p>\n

I’ve found that using a thumb-operated trackball is much better and doesn’t generate any pain at all, but there are few of them around. I’ve been using the Logitech Wireless Trackball M570<\/a>\"\" recently, which I got from Curry’s stores. It is so close to being a great product, apart from one tiny, but infuriating defect:<\/p>\n

The switches under the buttons wear out very quickly – I mean within 6 weeks of using it. The left button is now very twitchy. It often double, and triple-clicks when I’m trying to single click, and selecting text or doing drag and drop is just almost impossible.<\/p>\n

I thought maybe I just had a bad one, so I bought another (from Amazon this time), and it worked great for the first few weeks, but now it has gone the same way.<\/p>\n

Of course, being an eletronics engineer, I had a peep inside. The switches for the right and left buttons are the same, so I swapped them and the fault has gone away again, or at least it has moved to the right-click button, but I can live with that for now.<\/p>\n

Problem is, I can’t actually find any other thumb operated trackballs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After decades of working with computer mice I have repetitive strain in my right wrist. It’s not too bad, but it means that if I use a traditional mouse my wrist quickly becomes very sore, with pain right up to my elbow. I’ve found that using a thumb-operated trackball is much better and doesn’t generate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42WEU-v","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wphost.spider-e.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}