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Are you like many people in this keyboarding age whose arms, wrists, or hands hurt from typing or mousing too much? Even if you don’t have full blown RSI or carpal tunnel, pain after using the computer too much can be disabling, and a signal that you may be in store for worse if you don’t change things. So what can you do?

You probably click your mouse hundreds of times a day, thousands of times a week. ClickNoMo lets you rest your tendons while you continue to work and get things done by automatically clicking the mouse for you when you bring the mouse to a short stop in any one position. You can select left mouse click, right mouse click, double click, or even click-and-drag, as you need to.

pearPad is a two-part application that lets you use your iPhone or iPod Touch as a wireless trackpad or keyboard for your Mac. There is a program you run on the Mac - available for Tiger or Leopard - and a program from the iTunes App Store which is run on the iPhone or iPod Touch.

LazyMouse looks like a useful utility for users who have trouble moving the mouse - it jumps the mouse cursor to the default button when a dialog box pops up, and optionally jumps the mouse back to its original position when the dialog is dismissed.

One of the numerous obstacles those of us with physical limitations face is how do we perform a right-click with a one-button mouse? Those that are able to use a physical keyboard can simply hold down the control key while clicking and that will emulate a right-click. But what about those of us who can’t use a physical keyboard or have trouble using one?

MacWorld magazine posted a great hint about horizontal scrolling for older mice and pointing devices which offer vertical scrolling but not horizontal scrolling.

MondoMouse lets you resize and move background windows, and have window focus follow your mouse pointer’s movements without clicking on the window.

Will Henderson’s MultiClutch [gives you] flexibility by extending multi-touch gestures to all programs.

It’s difficult to find a touchpad/trackpad for a desktop computer like an iMac or Mac Pro. Here’s a solution that lets you use an iPhone or iPod Touch as an external trackpad.

Warp is a preference pane that allows you to use the mouse to switch between Spaces rather than using the keyboard.
I don’t use Spaces in Leopard, but for those who do this looks like a very configurable way to avoid needing the keyboard to move from one space to another.
Website: Warp
- Ricky Buchanan, ATMac