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• Bring Your Middle Mouse Button to Life That middle button is often ignored, but you can tap its potential for browsing more efficiently, scrolling quickly, and more.
• Make the Most of Your Middle Mouse Button, Part 4 There's one last way to get some extra use out of that third button: Click it, hold it, and drag your mouse to scroll up or down on a page. Very handy!
• The 20 Dumbest Questions on Yahoo Answers From startlingly ignorant PC questions to appalling displays of sexual confusion, people have some pretty strange problems--and the depth of their cluelessness is nowhere more evident than on the pages of Yahoo Answers.
• Make the Most of Your Middle Mouse Button, Part 3 Today's "Middy" tip is all about folders inside your browser--and what happens when you middle-click one.
• Mobile Tech: 11 Invaluable Accessories for On-the-Go Gear We’ve handpicked a clutch of the most useful travel gadgets, including a TSA-friendly suitcase, handy paper speakers, and a super-portable photo printer.
• Deals of the Week We'll show you where to find the best prices on an unlocked Pharos smartphone, a Kodak pocket camcorder, a refurbished iPod, and more.
• Cures for a Crusty Keyboard Reader Marcie Phipps seeks to clean up her act. She writes:
• Make the Most of Your Middle Mouse Button, Part 2 Today's tip: clicking that often-overlooked middle button to quickly and easily open a Web link in a new tab.
• They Own WHAT? Nine Tech Patent and Trademark Oddities Did you know that The Beatles and Apple feuded for years over logos and that Motorola had to ask permission from George Lucas to use the word Droid for its smartphone? They're not alone.
• Make the Most of Your Middle Mouse Button Are you neglecting that "middle child" of mouse buttons? Here's one easy way to get some extra use from it.
• 2010: The Year of the Tablet Computer? Next year tablet computer hype will become a reality as vendors actually deliver devices.
• Headphone Buying Guide (2009) If you're looking to improve the audio coming from your iPod, iPhone, or Mac, a new set of headphones is probably the most rewarding upgrade you can make...
• Genius MousePen I608 Compared to its better-known competitors from Wacom, Genius' $99 MousePen i608 graphics tablet offers more real estate for less money: Its 8-by-6-inch working...
• Wrap Your Brain Around a Game With Emotiv's Epoc Emotiv's headset designed to let you control video games with your brain is on sale now and ships December 21.
• Steampunk Tech Mods: A 19th-Century Take on 21st-Century PCs and Gadgets If Sherlock Holmes--or Jack the Ripper--had owned our technology, his equipment might have looked like this.
• Researchers Develop 3-D Squeezable Input Device A team of researchers have developed a squeezable mouse-like input device that gives three-dimensional control to its users.
• Holiday Gift Guide: Three Terrific Gizmos and Gadgets We like the clever Gorillatorch flashlight, the well-priced iKeySlim keyboard and Logitech's useful Harmony 700 universal remote.
• Enable Momentum Scrolling for Magic Mouse in 10.5 If you happen to have a new Magic Mouse running on OS X 10.5, you may be disappointed to find that it lacks a feature you get with Snow Leopard: momentum...
• Strike the Right Key Maybe a keyboard doesn't sound like the sort of gift that inspires squeals of delight come holiday time, but at least you know it's something the recipients are...
• All Wound Up When it’s time to plug my earbuds into my iPhone—whether to take a phone call or listen to some tunes—the last thing I want to do is waste time unraveling the...
• Microsoft Surface Draws Interest, if Not Buyers The tabletop computer interface has found some niche uses and continues to mature, Microsoft tells developers.
• Want a Faster Interface? Put a Chip in Your Skull Intel says chips embedded in people's brains will control computers by 2020.
• Next: Control a Computer With Gestures A new technology still in development supports input by motion controls and drawings.
• Parlay Your Photos Into Holiday Cards and Calendars Use image-editing software and Websites to turn your digital photos into handcrafted greeting cards and other holiday gifts.
• Keyboards Buying Guide Is there a more underappreciated part of your desktop computer system than the keyboard? It's the second-most-used component--after the display, of course--and...