My laptop suddenly stopped registering left mouse clicks today. I feared the worst – a broken trackpad. I tried everything; rebooting, plugging in external mice, shutting down all applications that might be causing a conflict.
20 mins or so of googling later, it seemed that there was nothing but a trip to an Apple store for it. And then I saw a post from a very embarrassed person who had suffered a similar problem only to discover the cause was his magic mouse, tucked in his bag and still connected to his computer, with something prodding the left mouse button down.
The thing is…I have a magic pad upstairs which was still connected to the laptop even though I was downstairs, on the other side of the house.
Needless to say, once I’d removed the keyboard that was resting on top of it, my touchpad was working just fine again. *cough*.
A good advertisement for the range of bluetooth though, it has to be said.