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Recently I’ve bought a new PowerMac G5, with which I’m very happy. With it came Apple’s latest pointing device innovation the Apple Mighty Mouse. The mouse itself is pretty cool and the vertical/horizontal scrolling wheel is working fine. But after 3 days my lower arm started aching. At first I thought it might be a problem with my desk because I’ve got a lot of stuff on it and so there isn’t much space for me to move the mouse comfortably. I switched back to my old Logitech Pilot Wheel Mouse Optical also because I wanted to know if it worked with my Mac. After a while I missed the vertical scrolling and the additional fourth mouse button of my Mighty Mouse. So I switched back to it. Only two days later my arm started aching again even after I had made room on my desk to let my arm rest on it.

It felt strange to me that such a well designed Mouse should cause RSI symptoms. It had to be me, Apple wouldn’t design a mouse that could cause such problems. So I did some research on the web to see if there were other users just like me.
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I’m now a happy owner of a free iPod. At first I was very suspicious since it sound too good to be true. You’ll get a 30GB iPod video just for signing up for some promotional offers, you’ll need 5 more friends that do the same, and that’s it. Hard to believe isn’t it. But here’s the proof.
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So a few weeks ago I decided to buy myself an upgrade to Alias Sketchbook Pro 2. Which by the way features some nice art from Bobby Chiu on their website, which you can buy from Bobby.So I went to their online store entered all the needed information and finished my purchase with downloading the software. I received the usual e-mail receipt which usually also contains the serial number. But guess what, not this time.

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