18-Button Mouse for OpenOffice.org

In partnership with the OpenOffice.org community, WarMouse announced the release of the OpenOfficeMouse, the first multi-button application mouse designed for the world's leading open-source office productivity suite. With a design featuring 18 buttons, an analog joystick, and support for as many as 52 key commands, the OpenOfficeMouse is intended to provide a faster and more efficient user interface for OpenOffice.org applications such as Writer and Calc than the conventional icons, pull-down menus, and hotkeys presently permit.

The OpenOfficeMouse is one of the first computer mice to incorporate an analog joystick and the first to permit the use of the joystick as a keyboard. In the three joystick-as-keyboard modes, the user can assign up to sixteen different keys or macros to the joystick, which provides for easy movement regardless of whether the user is flying through the cells of a large spreadsheet in Calc or on the back of an epic flying mount in World of Warcraft.

It is also the first hardware to be permitted to make use of the OpenOffice.org brand in the nine-year history of the OpenOffice.org Community.

The features of the OpenOfficeMouse include:

• 18 programmable mouse buttons with double-click functionality.
• Three different button modes: Key, Keypress, and Macro.
• Analog Xbox 360-style joystick with optional 4, 8, and 16-key command modes.
• Clickable scroll wheel.
• 512k of flash memory.
• 63 on-mouse application profiles with hardware, software, and autoswitching capability.
• 1024-character macro support.
• Open source support software for creating, managing, and customizing application profiles.
• Import and export of custom profiles in XML format.
• Optional audio notification of profile switching with customizable wave files.
• PDF export of profile button assignments.
• Adjustable resolution from 400 to 1,600 CPI.
• Default profiles for Writer, Calc, Impress, Base, and Draw based on actual usage statistics compiled for OpenOffice.org 3.1.
• 20 default profiles for popular games and applications, including Adobe Photoshop, the Gnu Image Manipulation Program, World of Warcraft, and the Call of Duty series.