WarMouse released awesome 18-Button OpenOfficeMouse

[Shayla]

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.

The OpenOfficeMouse includes default profiles for the five core OpenOffice.org applications based on 662 million datapoints compiled by the usage tracking facility incorporated into OpenOffice.org 3.1. These profiles can be easily customized to suit the user's preferences using the included OpenOfficeMouse setup software. The setup and customization software is an application that will be released as an open source software project under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 in the first quarter of 2010. Default profiles for 20 other games and applications are also included; the OpenOffice Mouse supports up to 63 profiles to be stored simultaneously in the mouse's memory.

The OpenOfficeMouse is one of the first computer mice to incorporate an analog joystick and the first to permit the use of the joystick as a keyboard. In the three joystick-as-keyboard modes, the user can assign up to sixteen different keys or macros to the joystick, which provides for easy movement regardless of whether the user is flying through the cells of a large spreadsheet in Calc or on the back of an epic flying mount in World of Warcraft. It is also the first hardware to be permitted to make use of the OpenOffice.org brand in the nine-year history of the OpenOffice.org Community.

The features of the OpenOfficeMouse include:

? 18 programmable mouse buttons with double-click functionality

? Three different button modes: Key, Keypress, and Macro

? Analog Xbox 360-style joystick with optional 4, 8, and 16-key command modes

? Clickable scroll wheel

? 512k of flash memory

? 63 on-mouse application profiles with hardware, software, and autoswitching apability

? 1024-character macro support.

? Open source support software for creating, managing, and customizing application profiles

? Import and export of custom profiles in XML format

? Optional audio notification of profile switching with customizable wave files

? PDF export of profile button assignments

? Adjustable resolution from 400 to 1,600 CPI

? Default profiles for Writer, Calc, Impress, Base, and Draw based on actual usage statistics compiled for OpenOffice.org 3.1

? 20 default profiles for popular games and applications, including Adobe Photoshop, the Gnu Image Manipulation Program, World of Warcraft, and the Call of Duty series.

The OpenOfficeMouse supports Windows, Linux, and Macintosh operating systems and wiSource $74.99.

Source : OpenOfficeMouse

[HawkMan]

Wow, that thing is more stupid than the WoW mouse... and ironically the place it would be least usable is any kind of office app where keyboard is king, and any half decent office worked will tell you they hardly ever touch the mouse

[StandingInAlley]

is it me or that mouse looks fugly ? Think i will pass :s

[xfodder]

is this real? why the hell would you need that many buttons?

[WizardCM]

Ok seriously, how many fingers do we have? How many hands do we want to use on this mouse? Seriously. :p

But then again, it must be very useful. :)

[ranasrule]

an octopus might find that thing useful

[DrunkenBeard]

designed for the world's leading open-source office productivity suite

This must be a joke :D

[webeagle12]

wired... :wacko: / facepalm

[brentaal]

This must be a joke :D

Reading comprehension fail.

[daiv_]

lolololol

[Lechio]

Wouldn't buy it, looks ugly and hard to use. There's obviously a better way to stick 18 keys in a mouse.

This must be a joke :D

No, OpenOffice is really the world's leading open-source office productivity suite.

[Chasethebase Veteran]

I thought the Naga was bad. At least the Naga looks reasonably nice. :lol:

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Yes, that looks awesomely comfortable!!!

/s

[Udedenkz]

There such a thing as too few but there is also such thing as too many buttons. What a Joke.

[ahhell]

No, OpenOffice is really the world's leading open-source office productivity suite.

Sarcasm? Please tell me that's sarcasm.

[Vice]

What a ridiculous mouse.

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Sarcasm? Please tell me that's sarcasm.

It's true! I fail to see your problem here. Of all the open-source office productivity suites, OpenOffice is the world leader.

What part of that are you struggling with?

[HawkMan]

Wouldn't buy it, looks ugly and hard to use. There's obviously a better way to stick 18 keys in a mouse.

No, OpenOffice is really the world's leading open-source office productivity suite.

Well it doesn't have any competition in that area :p

[+.Aaron Subscriber¹]

is it me or that mouse looks fugly ? Think i will pass :s

I completely agree.

[MrTer4byte]

Crap and pointless. So a perfect match for OpenOffice!

So true, there are better freeware wp's out there.

No, OpenOffice is really the world's leading open-source office productivity suite.

They should get a medal for that :laugh:, Fanatically bad office suite and the license dosnt change that. They need to spend less time creating gimicks like this and more time making OO less of a woeful office suite.

Edited November 7, 2009 by MrTer4byte

[Dance.]

my eyes...:|

[what]

[ichi]

Well it doesn't have any competition in that area :p

Of course it does. There's at least KOffice, Siag and the OOo forks like NeoOffice, Lotus Symphony and that Chinese version with a ribbon-like interface (RedOffice?).

They need to spend less time creating gimicks like this and more time making OO less of a woeful office suite.

I don't think WarMouse (whoever they are) have really anything to do with OOo development.

[argonite]

should've gone all out and compressed the 101 keys on the keyboard onto the mouse

[webeagle12]

should've gone all out and compressed the 101 keys on the keyboard onto the mouse

gr8 you just gave them another idea :pinch: