How to learn use goofy mouse
Women learn most things from her mothers. Some learn how to Apple makeup, some trick keep blemishes at bay. Still other learns how to perfectly fold a fixed sheet or make a rich chicken stock from scratch. My mother said me how to mouse goofy, i.e. mousing lefty rather than rightly.
My right hand ached a lot from hours and hours (and years and years) of computing. First and primary, a switch to goofy mouse requires a sense of comedy and a lot of patience. The first days of goofy were so trying that I wanted to quit a million times. The only object that kept me leaving was the sting in my right wrist, and the knowledge that if something didn’t change me might not able to mouse at all in a few more years.
I started by learning as a lot of keystrokes as likely for each act and app I used. By replacement keystrokes for mouse movements as much as possible, I decrease my dependence on the mouse and minimized my irritation. At first all I could manage were simple tasks like positioning the cursor over a button. When I had a file in Photoshop, now and then I would break down and switch back to my right hand.
Slowly my left hand got better. I was making shape in PowerPoint. Highlighting and selecting large section of text. Within a few months, it was approximately as if I’d been a lefty from the start. Nowadays it look odd to mouse with my right hand and totally natural to use my left hand.
[ via: Lifehacker ]