<div dir="ltr">Can you simply use the trackpad? I used to have this problem with old-style mice, but it was easy to turn the dial to remove the ball and clean everything out. I haven't had to do it in many years, maybe since the 1990s.<div><br></div><div>Good luck!<br><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:small"><br>Shel Horowitz - "The Transformpreneur"(sm)</div><div style="font-size:small">________________________________________________</div><div style="font-size:small">Watch (and please share) my TEDx Talk,</div><div style="font-size:small">"Impossible is a Dare: Business for a Better World"</div><div style="font-size:small"><font size="2" color="#1155cc"><u><a href="http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809</a></u></font><font size="2" color="#1155cc"><u><a href="http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"> </a></u></font><br><div style="font-size:small">(move your mouse to "event videos")</div></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Contact me to bake in profitability while addressing hunger, <br></div><div style="font-size:small">poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Twitter: @shelhorowitz</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">* First business ever to be Green America Gold Certified</div><div style="font-size:small">* Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><a href="http://goingbeyondsustainability.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://goingbeyondsustainability.com</a> </div><div style="font-size:small"><a href="http://transformpreneur.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://transformpreneur.com</a></div><div style="font-size:small">mailto:<a href="mailto:shel@greenandprofitable.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">shel@greenandprofitable.com</a> * <a href="tel:413-586-2388" value="+14135862388" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">413-586-2388</a></div><div style="font-size:small">Award-winning, best-selling author of 10 books. Latest:</div><div style="font-size:small">Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World (co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson)<br></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">_________________________________________________</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 2:05 PM Lynne Rudie via Hidden-discuss <<a href="mailto:hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net">hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div>Hello Hidden Techies</div><div><span class="gmail-m_-2403817924011431156Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Feel free to roll your eyes but I need some advice about how to keep my (computer) mice from being clogged with cat hair. </div><div><span class="gmail-m_-2403817924011431156Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>I love the blue tooth mouse that came with my imac but after a while I found I had to clean out the sensor (with a q-tip or the end of a bent paperclip or both) with increasing frequency to keep it functional. </div><div><span class="gmail-m_-2403817924011431156Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>I went to my back-up wired mouse and for a while I could just blow on the sensor to keep it clean enough to work consistently, but now it is not working well either. </div><div><span class="gmail-m_-2403817924011431156Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>I have an old-style “magic mouse” that is currently paired to my laptop that also gets clogged when I use it consistently but it’s the only one I can take apart to get all the hair out of it. I don’t like to use it for everyday work because it eats batteries but I’m wondering if that is actually my best option.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="gmail-m_-2403817924011431156Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>For the record, I have “just” one elderly cat who very rarely gets on my desk and I keep my studio pretty clean — it seems as though this shouldn’t be a serious problem but it has become very annoying. I can’t possibly be the only cat-person on this list, right? I will be SO grateful for any suggestions or solutions. </div><div><span class="gmail-m_-2403817924011431156Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Thank you</div><div><span class="gmail-m_-2403817924011431156Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Lynne</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div>
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