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Today was the opening day for the two-day Podcamp Hawaii. It was a lot of great information, great variety of sessions, and plenty of wonderful people. Here’s just a few of my notes from the day:
Opening blessings by Haunani and ‘Illima Kauka. Followed by two lovely hula songs, danced by Kanoe Miller, and performed by The Casey Olson Trio.
Podcamp Blessing
Chris Heuer (www.chrisheuer.com) - Social media principles: tip — Be human, be personal. Check out: Filtrbox.com
Rob Farrow - Managing Online Identity: tip — chi.mp
Kristie Wells -Building Your Community: tip — socialmediaclub.org
Podcamp swag
Rob Halper - Johnson and Johnson health channel on YouTube: “equity marketing, not a hard ROI”
Dave Erdman - Podcasting Hawaii to Japan: tip — use lots of different media (YouTube, Podcasts, and “theme” web sites) to help Search Engine ranking
Overall, very interesting! I can’t make tomorrow’s session, even though there are some really good ones, including: Matt Mullenweg and Neil Abercrombie. Try to make it if you can: PodcampHawaii.
I’m testing one of the new Targus Bluetooth Laser Mouse for Mac. They’ve designed a whole series of accessories for Mac users, all are streamlined, using the same design styling.
My previous mouse was the Kensington Slimblade Presenter Mouse. It’s a small, compact bluetooth mouse that looks good and works fine. However, it seems to eat through batteries like there’s no tomorrow. 
The Targus mouse feels more like a bar of soap in your hand — longer and taller than the Kensington. Getting it paired up with my Macbook Pro was effortless. However, the disc that came with it — to make use of the extra two side buttons — was unreadable. I had to use a Windows machine to grab the .dmg installation file.
Extra options
After installation into the System Preferences, you have to reboot. Then you can set those buttons to a variety of options; the default being forward and back in Safari, but you could set up AppleScripts to be triggered, or launch a specific application.
One of the biggest pluses for me was the “quick scroll” that is available in the four-way “touch scroll” button. It makes scrolling through long web pages a breeze! That “touch scroll” works well if you can get over the fact it’s more like a touch-pad than the standard scroll wheel on most mice.
Overall this seems like a good mouse for someone wanting to make use of bluetooth on their Mac, while getting extra functionality from the additional buttons and touch scroll. And, it has something the Kensington needed, an OFF switch!
Update 10/25/08: The scrolling on this mouse is sometimes a bit too much; it scrolls too fast, too far at times. Perhaps there’s a setting or button to help this. Also, the mouse is very particular as to WHERE you click on it. So, for me, when I type, then go to click with the mouse, I don’t always reposition myself in the correct position, ending up with some unexpected results, such as ending up with a right-click when I tried a standard left-click, or a side button when I was just trying to move it. I’m not sure if it’s a design problem or a (new) user problem yet.
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