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Pros: -sturdy quality packaging, looks pretty gag gift but cool at the same time-button itself is good quality, scratchless and perfect because of the design of the packaging which keeps it suspended at the centre of the box it comes in-COOLEST THING EVER: you can do so much with this button, the simplest one (the one they teach you in the instructions manual included) is that you can choose a picture that pops up to full screen, at the time of installation they ask you to pick a picture (either from the ones included on the installation disk or your own) i opened up a word doc of an essay i did a while back and printscreened it, then i selected it as my picture and now every time i press the button it looks like im working diligently on my essay
Cons: -the usb link is quite short, under a metre, but pretty good (long enough to sit on my desk)-im going to get some double sided tape and stick this button on the underside of my desk, sort of like a silent alarm at the bank-as you can see there are NO cons.
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Bottomline: -GET THIS, coolest investment ever, -sooo easy to program and install, i hope i didnt make it seem to difficult with my deliriously happy rambling, -get it, best eight bucks spent. -you can program it to do ANYTHING, so if you have a fav song, you can program it to play it every time you press it - how cool can technology get! =)
Pros: .+ Very build quality (matches the somewhat high price, compared to DX standards)+ Very important, tempting and dangerous looking+ Works like a charm with this program:http://www.johnbruin.net/files/usb%20panic%20button.zip(Try it before you buy, it has a test button.) With this program you can make the button open a image in full screen, play a sound file, shake the screen aka earthquake, trigger next slide in Powerpoint and also execute/open any web page or file (which makes endless opportunities with .bat-files) (also you can select one, any or all of these features)!
Cons: .- Somewhat high price, compared to DX standards- The cord is a bit short.92cm (included plug)(that equals 36.22 inch)(buy an extension cable)- You can't press the button all the way down, it is only pressed like 1mm down with a small cell-phone-button-ish click (this is the only real con)
Other Thoughts: .I use it daily to shut down my computer quick and dirty by slamming the big red button, with a .bat file with the following content:shutdown -s -f -t 0This will force shutdown your computer (suppressing any "do you want to save before quitting" and error dialogs).(To make a .bat-file, open Notepad paste the above command or any other, save as something.bat (-not- something.txt or something.bat.txt).)
Bottomline: .Awesome product! Cool desktop gadget. Can also be useful to for example minimize all windows, shutting down computer, etc.
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