Take an outdated PS/2 ball style mouse and make a handy multimedia controller.
Thanks go to Daniel Walker for the original article in MAKE, Volume 17.
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If you don’t have time to put together your own scroll wheel, try our new jog dial app for the iphone.
The app consists of a simple touch scroll wheel for the iPhone sitting on your desk, and a lightweight, fully configurable client for your mac. Effortlessly scroll through documents, scrub through audio tracks, flip through albums, and much much more.
Download the app ($1.99 on the iTunes store) and the client here:
http://www.nathanmatsuda.com/jogdial