posted 10-08- 04:04 PM               

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Well, CompUSA had a bonanza on free an cheap stuff including a nifty and useful looking mouse pad that you can assign buttons that hotlink to your favorite site. The pad is called the mysmart pad and was free after rebate. The price was about right. The price was right for what I got - a neat looking mouse pad that doesn't do much other than fall back to your archaic and unused default windows dial up program when you slide this 'mysmart key' into the slot at the top of the pad. I don't know about you, but why does the thing need to go to the internet when you slide that dang little card in? More importantly, why does it need to go to the net when you slide the card OUT?
In an effort to see if I could get the thing to recognize my MSN connection and only connect to the internet when I pressed the bubble button (all the buttons are those aluminum/tin bubbles with plastic over the top). I think I didn't help by removing the 'Adds' directory and the 'sound' directory under the mystupi....er..smart directory. The registry didn't contain squat for options. The program is sealed up like King Tut's tomb.
So far it appears to be a big honkin' waste of effort to try to get the thing to work right. It would have been nice to be able to wack a bubble and have the FS message board popup.

The thing needs work. I am leaning towards the conclusion that the test group was a batch of 1st graders.

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posted 10-08- 04:57 PM               

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I talked to tech support and the response was the MS trio - reinstall, patch, reboot. The techie was good, the product is still immature.

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