Vintage Computer Festival; $3 Magic Mouse
Magic Mouse At the SoCal Vintage Computer Festival , stumbled acrosss an OG Magic Mouse (the one that uses AA batteries) in a box marked $5. They gave it to me for $3 since it was untested. Got it home and tried to fire it up and no green light. Dead. Figured my $3 gamble didn’t pay off... But, being me, I futzed with it and, after testing the AAs and confirming they were good, kinda shoved them into the positive terminals and ... a flicker, then a steady flashing green light. Huzzah! It works fine, I’m using it as I type this. Pro tip: For $12, BetterTouchTool allows tap-to-click on the mouse, instead of requiring a physical click every time. Between that, and the built-in scrolling gestures (horizontal scroll to go back and forth between pages), I’m wondering why I never tried one of these earlier! (Probably because they’re like $80 and I’m forever a cheapskate.) (Speaking of being a cheapskate: Everyone gripes about how the charging port is on the bottom of the mouse. The reason wh...