- USB OVERDRIVE FOR WIRELESS TRACKBALL MOUSE MAC OS X
- USB OVERDRIVE FOR WIRELESS TRACKBALL MOUSE INSTALL
- USB OVERDRIVE FOR WIRELESS TRACKBALL MOUSE SERIAL
- USB OVERDRIVE FOR WIRELESS TRACKBALL MOUSE DRIVERS
- USB OVERDRIVE FOR WIRELESS TRACKBALL MOUSE PRO
The Speedlink Aptico Wireless Trackball feels soft, with matte black plastic on top and a more shiny plastic on the side and at the bottom.
USB OVERDRIVE FOR WIRELESS TRACKBALL MOUSE MAC OS X
Once it’s on, my Mac OS X El Capitan operating system detects and installs the device automatically. And you can see the hole through which you can push out the ball. On the base of the Speedlink Aptico Wireless Trackball we find the wireless USB receiver, battery compartment and on/off switch. If you don’t use the trackball for a while, you can turn the device off to save the battery (although the Aptico does have an automatic Energy Save Mode). Don’t forget to switch the trackball ”ON” with a tiny button at the base of the trackball.
I put the AA battery in the compartment at the bottom, and I take out a small Nano USB Wireless 2.4 Ghz receiver, which can be stored at the bottom of the device, and I put it in my laptop’s USB port.
USB OVERDRIVE FOR WIRELESS TRACKBALL MOUSE INSTALL
The box contains the trackball, info guide in 18 languages, quick install guide and one AA battery. The Speedlink Aptico Wireless Trackball comes in a white carton box in which the trackball can be seen through a transparant plastic. In this review, I will sometimes compare the Speedlink Aptico Wireless Trackball to the best selling trackball of the moment, the Logitech M570 Wireless Trackball, and the Elecom EX-G M-XT3DRBK Wireless Trackball, as these trackballs are very similar in design, features, layout and size. Comparing the Speedlink Aptico to Logitech M570 and Elecom EX-G M-XT3DRBK Speedlink offers several computer mice, but only one trackball, this Aptico SL-630001-BK. It is the exact same device as the Japanese Sanwa Supply Wireless Trackball Mouse MA-WTB43BK, but the trackball is sold in Europe by the German company Jöllenbeck GmbH under their brand Speedlink, which specialises in computer and gaming accessories.
The Speedlink Aptico SL-630001-BK is a wireless, thumb-operated trackball.
USB OVERDRIVE FOR WIRELESS TRACKBALL MOUSE PRO
USB OVERDRIVE FOR WIRELESS TRACKBALL MOUSE SERIAL
It does not support modems, serial adapters, network adapters, wireless adapters, scanners, printers, webcams, speakers, microphones, audio devices, hard disks, cd/dvd burners, etc. The USB Overdrive only talks to input devices. Doing so requires some UNIX shell commands so I won’t go into detail here, let me know if you need assistance on it. If you do not care about the actual force feedback feature (which is hardly supported anywhere) you can manually disable the LogitechForceFeedback.kext extension to let the Overdrive handle your device. The Logitech force feedback gaming devices are handled by a specific kernel extension that ships with macOS and has a higher priority than the Overdrive. If your device is not fully supported please let me know and I’ll see what I can do. I don’t like to spend days on a single device to reverse-engineer it and add specific workarounds for its non-compliant controls, but I’ve done it in the past for popular devices and I’ll do it again in the future as a service to USB Overdrive users.
Some Logitech and Razer mice hide some of their buttons and cannot be fully handled without intimate knowledge of their vendor-specific behavior, which is not usually disclosed to third parties. Since multitouch gestures are more important than any other additional setting, the USB Overdrive is now leaving all Apple devices alone and no longer tries to handle them in any way. I’ve been talking to Apple for a long time about this, but it looks like multitouch event generation is not going to be available to 3rd parties anytime soon.