{"id":42751,"date":"2021-12-27T21:26:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T21:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=42751"},"modified":"2021-12-27T21:26:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T21:26:39","slug":"home-computer-use-mouse-particulars-part0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/home-computer-use-mouse-particulars-part0\/","title":{"rendered":"Home computer use: mouse particulars, part0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about home computer use: the tutor makes a couple of mouse observations.<\/h2>\n<p>\nI notice that the mouse I use doesn&#8217;t seem to work on glossy surfaces, so have wondered why not.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing I&#8217;ve learned is that, if the mouse emits visible light to the surface below it, it&#8217;s optical. Moreover, if the surface it sits on is shiny,  the reflected light (which the mouse depends on) may not be pointed enough to produce a good signal. A duller surface will likely work better, since it doesn&#8217;t redirect the light the way a shiny surface might. Such is my understanding, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalworld839.com\/optical-mouse-vs-laser-mouse\/\">digitalworld839.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about home computer use: the tutor makes a couple of mouse observations. I notice that the mouse I use doesn&#8217;t seem to work on glossy surfaces, so have wondered why not. The first thing I&#8217;ve learned is that, if &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/home-computer-use-mouse-particulars-part0\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Home computer use: mouse particulars, part0<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1009],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-computer-use"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42754,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42751\/revisions\/42754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}