tamanaco Wrote: > The thumb-wheel gives you "variable" speed control and precise > scrolling. Also, you get a single mechanism to move up/down, > select/play and even move side to side if implemented a la Logitech. > Spinning a wheel is a more natural, efficient and ergonomic. (For those > who use their SBs 24x7 it also reduces their risk of repetitive-strain > :-) If you have 500 artists and want to get to those whose name start > with L... give it a quick, short spin. One can select choices without > the need to lift one's finger to press a "different" button. A > thumb-wheel works very similar to the wheel in an iPod. Notice the > layout of the cursor buttons in the remote... they're in a circle... > coincidence?... I think not. Look around at the latest designs of > pointers to graphical interfaces to laptops, DAPs, PPCs etc. You'll > find that touchpads, knobs and wheels are becoming more common. These > are variable-speed-multi-directional-click-to-select pointers.
Hmm, that sounds interesting. I guess because I've never used one before I didn't know how it could be used or what the possibilities would be with it. > > Regarding the Web interface, it needs to be more responsive (faster). Where specifically is it slow? About the only time the web page doesn't come up immediately for me is during a rescan, for obvious reasons. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24528 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
