Certainly, there have been clusters of creative desktops unfurling every other day, but here is a change. Well, WarMouse has recently partnered with OpenOffice.org community for announcing the launch of their latest OpenOffice Mouse. Claimed to be the first multi-button application mouse designed for the world’s leading open-source office productivity suite, the OpenOffice Mouse significantly offers a faster and more efficient user interface for OpenOffice.org applications such as Writer and Calc than the traditional icons, pull-down menus, and hotkeys.
The trendy device encompasses default profiles for the five core OpenOffice.org applications based on 662 million datapoints assembled by the usage tracking facility integrated into OpenOffice.org 3.1. These profiles can be conveniently customized to suit users’ preferences utilizing the embodied OpenOfficeMouse setup software. The swanky mouse comes equipped with 18 programmable buttons with double-click functionality. Concurrently, there are three different button modes namely Key, Keypress, and Macro.
John McCreesh, Marketing Project Lead at OpenOffice.org, welcomed the announcement: “The OpenOffice Mouse is a really cool addition to the desk of any keen OpenOffice.org user. The Mouse team has worked closely with experts from the OpenOffice.org User Experience project to deliver the full benefits of the world’s leading open-source office software to the fingertips of users. The prototypes are stunning – I can’t wait to get my hands on the finished product.”
Besides 512K of flash memory, the OpenOffice Mouse features 1024-character macro support. Users will also be offered complete Open source support software for creating, managing, and customizing application profiles.
“You can do far more with this mouse than most people are likely to realize at first,” stated 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.”
Further, the effectual OpenOffice Mouse enables importing and exporting of custom profiles in XML format. It even comprises 20 default profiles for widely-known games and applications, including Adobe Photoshop, the Gnu Image Manipulation Program, World of Warcraft, and the Call of Duty series. Additionally, the stylish mouse supports Windows, Linux, and Macintosh at the same time.
Well, the eye-catching OpenOffice Mouse is priced at $74.99 (approx Rs. 3,510).
