AliyaAliya loves to use the computer. I’ve let her use an old Fujitsu laptop as well as my MacBook Pro/iBook. Using the same programs, Aliya have problems on the Fujitsu. She likes to right click, a lot, even if I told her otherwise. On the Apple notebooks, she does not have any problems whatsoever, as there is only one button to play around with. With the Fujitsu, she can’t launch any programs, even if she can visibly see the icons on the desktop. She would insert the program CD she wanted, wait for the menu to pop-up, and from there she can right-click her way through as the educational programs are set up to accept any form of clicks.

Things are more interesting with Professor FizzleWizzle though. The right mouse click is a “Back” button, and everything else is triggered via the left mouse button. To make matters worse, I introduced the game to her on the iBook first, before installing the game on ‘her laptop’, the Fujitsu. After a bit of training, she now manages to click through the game happily. Sometimes I wished I had the Apple one button USB mouse with me.

I did try to get her to use the arrow keys instead of the mouse, but she is very slow to catch up with that. Oh well, another time then.

People complain about the one button mouse provided by Apple, but it is easier for people who have never used a computer before. Aliya never need to ask me what button to press when I told her to click the mouse button, but on the Fujitsu laptop, she would point at the button she intends to press, and asks me if it’s the button she should click on.

As for me, the more mouse buttons the better. My personal mouse is the Logitech G7 as that provides the precision and speed that I want in a mouse.

So, what does she do on the computer? Well, a bunch of educational software, and games like Bejewelled 2 (she loves puzzle mode), Zuma, and Professor FizzleWizzle. I am going to introduce Chuzzle next, I think :)

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