Blog Directory Listings

Bloggers - it is always a good idea to list you blog with some blog directories. Here are the directories I have submitted to.

Blog Directory

blogville

Check them out and list yours too.

The WeraMouse Squidoo Lens

Check out the Squidoo Lens on The WeraMouse - The WeraMouse Squidoo Lens

While you are there - wny not build a Lens of your own.

Deskless Computing - the Way of the Future

Imagine if you will:

A stunning spring morning blazes into the kitchen as you lazily fill the kettle for your mandatory morning brew. You grab your WeraMouse media controller and turn on your 42 inch monitor on the wall opposite.

Your are immediately presented with your 5 home pages displaying:
• your news feeds,
• overnight emails,
• number of calls you missed yesterday, and from whom
• 5 requests to add you as a friend on Facebook,
• and confirmation that you recorded that midnight movie you wanted to see

You max the missed calls page – 2 video, 1 fixed, 3 mobile, and select replay on the video calls, as you raise the breakfast pantry with toaster and cereal selection.

Nothing urgent on any call, so next it is a quick review of the Facebook requests, (agree to 4 straight away but put one aside but flag to check later because the name is kinda familiar, but…).

As you pour the boiling water into the pot, you max the emails page and review what has come in overnight. You work your way through the list, reading the important, highlighting those you need to follow up, and binning the junk, at all times making sure you don’t put the WeraMouse down in the butter.

Armed with brew, toast and WeraMouse, you move to the table, and settle in to your breakfast, and the news from your favourite media channels, RSS feeds, blogs you follow, and new article postings of interest. A great start to the day.

The future? Not really. In fact, this is pretty much all available today – except for the device that allows you to manage your media the way you want, and from where you want to.

Proximity is not a requirement!

A desk is not a requirement!

The WeraMouse Trackball is the first product in a range of products designed for the new way we use computers. Computers are evolving -- the way we use them is evolving -- and now with the WeraMouse, the mouse is finally catching up.

Why has the Computer Mouse not Evolved?

It is fair to say that there is a generally accepted basis that technological capability doubles every 24 months. So -- what is it with the computer mouse that we have been using it the same way since 1963 when it was first invented by Douglas Engelbart?

Computers have advanced considerably since that time. In 1963, the largest computer (the SAGE System) weighed in at 250 tons and used 3 Megawatts of power. Today, you can put a computer that has more memory than a SAGE computer -- into your pocket.

Yes -- there have been some significant improvements to the operation of the computer mouse since that original design (that used two wheels to control the cursor position). A brief summary would include;
• 1972 -- the trackball inclusion
• 1984 -- the Apple one-button mouse
• 1991 -- the first wireless mouse
• 1999 -- the first optical mouse (that did not require a special, grid-lined mouse pad).

But on the whole, the computer mouse has remained pretty much the same for over 40 years - why?

To answer this we need to look at what burning need drives evolution. For those that can remember the 'green screen', the short cut keys and use of the Tab key were the most efficient way to move the cursor around the screen to the desired location. The mouse use in this scenario was a hassle and not that productive.

And with this, we are beginning to see why the computer mouse has not yet evolved - because such evolution has been dictated by the software applications we have been using. Given that businesses and corporations were pretty much the only market for computers and software up to the 80's and early 90's, the applications developed were all focused on efficient data entry, data manipulation and reporting.

But things have now moved on. The decrease in the price of technology has seen computers in almost every home in first world countries. Equally, the internet has changed what the majority of the world now uses computers for. Instead of primarily data input, calculation, and output, the computer is becoming more and more a tool for research, information, and entertainment.

Browser based computing is now a reality with the main interface to the computer being 'point and click' i.e. using a mouse.

The significant factor here is the dramatic change in the amount of time spent on the keyboard v the mouse as the primary interface device. Where in times gone by, the split between keyboard and mouse may have been (generally) 80% keyboard / 20% mouse, today it is more likely to be 40% keyboard and 60% mouse, or more.

And it is this move away from the keyboard as the primary interface to the mouse that presents the opportunity for the mouse to finally evolve. And evolve it must.

The requirement right now, and into the future is to satisfy the need to have a better interface device for the browsing manner in which computers are more commonly being used. Look at the online gamer playing a poker tournament. This could be a 3 hour stretch (if they were winning!) where the mouse could be the only device used to Pass, Bet, Raise or Fold.

Likewise, the student completing an assignment is more likely to spend the majority of time researching the internet, and then typing up the results.

And take the business person who sits down with their morning cup of coffee to devour the latest events via their various RSS links and favourite news sites -- without ever touching the keyboard.

The way we are using computers is different now. The time for computer mouse evolution is at hand! And that evolution has begun...

Check out this innovative  computer mouse for today's browser based computing.