Posted by Just when you thought it was time to abandon the mouse altogether and start using only the command line, the OpenSource world has come up with a mouse with one zillion buttons that allows one-handed use of OpenOffice apps and plays World of Warcraft.
Orvieto, Italy, November 6, 2009 – In partnership with the OpenOffice.org community, WarMouse
announced the release of the OpenOfficeMouse, the first multi-button application mouse designed for
the world’s leading open-source office productivity suite. With a revolutionary and patented design
featuring 18 buttons, an analog joystick, and support for as many as 52 key commands, the
OpenOfficeMouse is intended to provide a faster and more efficient user interface for OpenOffice.org
applications such as Writer and Calc than the conventional icons, pull-down menus, and hotkeys
presently permit.
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“You can do far more with this mouse than most people are likely to realize at first,” said mouse
designer Theodore Beale. “You can launch applications from the desktop, and in your browser you can
fire up a specific Internet site with one button, then close it with a double-click on the same button. In
Writer and Calc, you can have your most powerful and complicated macros on one row of buttons and
simple functions like Bold, Undo, and Format Cell on another. It’s very useful in games like World of
Warcraft, because even without taking the joystick into account, you’ve got 16 commands within one
click, 40 within two, and all 72 icons on the six action pages within just two double-clicks or less.”
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, which is now available for the 
