Review: Radware BT600 Bluetooth Mouse

Review: I purchased the Radware BT600 from powermax.com and I would give it an 8 out of 10 for features but only a 5 out of 10 for quality.

Features: On/Off switch – I would rather personally make the call when it is on or off and not let it auto-sense like some do. Recharge via USB cable – this was my selling point since I did not want to haul extra batteries. It works ok but I have found the battery life to be pretty bad after about 3-4 weeks of use. Probably came with cheap rechargables. Scroll wheel – works great. Thumb buttons – I use for browser back and forward mainly. Software – nice mac support allows you to change all the buttons (to a limited list of options) and make custom configurations for how it works in different applications (I haven’t tried that yet).

Quality: The mouse is full size but not as large as some of the later ergonomic Logitech and MS mice out there. I would call it regular size. Overall, I think it feels cheap and looks poorly manufactured. The feel of the button clicking on both the main buttons and the thumb buttons is mushy and does not provide that tactile feedback that I like. Also, I have just emailed their support because mine seems to be double-clicking now when I only physically single-click something. I have tried changing all the speed settings for it and cannot get it to stop.

It has a one-year warranty so maybe I have a new one in my future. To be determined.

Flex and ColdFusion Beginner Tip #2

What is flex doing to ColdFusion?  While I was running the Flex beta, I was getting all kinds of data dumped to my cfusion-out.log file that showed the incoming and outgoing transactions.  Well for some reason after we installed the production ready Flex 2 and CF 7.0.2 this stopped.  Turns out that our services-config.xml file lost an important section.  Make sure that inside the <services-config> section of that file you have a <logging> section that looks something like this:

<logging>
<target class=”flex.messaging.log.ConsoleTarget” level=”Debug”>
<properties>
<prefix>[Flex] </prefix>
<includeDate>true</includeDate>
<includeTime>true</includeTime>
<includeLevel>true</includeLevel>
<includeCategory>true</includeCategory>
</properties>
<filters>
<pattern>Endpoint.*</pattern>
<pattern>Service.*</pattern>
<pattern>Configuration</pattern>
<pattern>Message.*</pattern>
<pattern>DataService.coldfusion</pattern>
</filters>
</target>
</logging>

Important Notes 

• The level=”Debug” adds a lot more data.
• <pattern>DataService.coldfusion</pattern> – I have no idea what this does yet, but I read it on adobe.com so it must do something.
• I turned on date, time, level, and category
• You would obviously not want all of this in Production