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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-22-11 09:35 AM
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2 gadget things: OMZ games & more on Kindle?!1 Plus, fix for restless cursor problem?!1
Edited on Fri Apr-22-11 10:09 AM by UTUSN
Well, in reverse order. Recently have had problems with the cursor. This is on laptop only, never had the problem on keyboard/PC. This is beyond annoying, cursor out of control, skipping around the screen randomly, can't get it to click. When you're typing, especially e-mail, can't get the thing done or Send until something unknown happens. Somebody here suggested it might come from pressure signals, unintended, on the touchpad, which has a large element of truth to it.

Googled it and there really is a known problem with Microsoft discussion forums about it. I don't have a link right now, just found them by Googling. Somebody there said pressing Ctl might work and for me it did a little bit of good sometimes, don't know when. Also, another problem was resting the hands/palm-heels on the frame of the laptop while typing, that this was giving the machine unintended signals, so need to keep the wrists up in the air. But what I think I've found is, the problem, also, is MOISTURE?!1 I do dry after washing hands, of course, but there seems to be a tiny lingering of moisture and this seems to trigger the problem. So, naturally, does SWEATING. Maybe the increased sliding motions give unintended signals?

Anyway, seems like the dryer, the less of a problem.

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I had no idea about other things for Kindle. I am so low tech I'm no way a gamer, but somebody raved about Scrabble for Kindle, and I looked for chess, and sure enough, but also Solitaire, plus things like a day planner and calculator. There's more, more sophisticated stuff for the predictably more sophisticate DU Loungers. Wow.
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