scrambledmindsMixed up thoughts on the web world, photography and life.

If any of you have a Mighty Mouse with your Mac then you’ve probably run into a problem of the same ilk as Blackberry users with a scroll ball / track ball. They work good… until they don’t. It’s frustrating when those little balls of joy don’t work. Without one that’s working there’s all sorts of ailments and profanity that may result. Anyway, I’ve tried cleaning both. One without success but a lot of fiddling, fear of losing crucial pieces, and disgust at the nondescribable stuff thatcomes from inside the track ball mechanism (Blackberry). The other with success out of pure luck (the Mighty Mouse).

Given you can’t easily disassemble the Mighty Mouse, I had originally tried the apple-endorsed approach to cleaning the track ball, and a number of variations located with my friend Google, will little success. Don’t ask me why, but I decided to run track ball of the Mighty Mouse “vigorously” upsidedown on a piece of A4 paper on a flat surface. What can I say. This worked a treat and released all sorts of stuff from around the track ball. I can now multi-direction scroll to my heart’s content. No more one direction but not the other!

I don’t know if the same thing will work with the Blackberry as the one I fixed was for a friend. Maybe one of you can try it?