There is an endless supply of tools for us to utilize to grant ourselves more control over our keyboards through macro creation and profiles but the same cannot be said about mice. While you can often find powerful mouse customization software accompanying your mouse, you'll be hard pressed to find a suitable replacement if you don't want to use the included software or if you do not have the mouse that that specific software was designed for.

Whether you choose not to use the software that was made for your mouse because it is buggy or forces mouse acceleration on you, our latest Curious Finding: X-Mouse Button Control by Highresolution Enterprises will give you more control over your rodent without needing to have a special model. Although X-Mouse Button Control is a powerful program that is not resource intensive, it only has support for 5 mouse buttons, a scroll wheel and tilt functionality.

Still, if you're like me and use your mouse to begin transmitting on Mumble or Ventrilo or if you just want to disable your mouse's backwards and forwards buttons, then you'll want to grab this program to save yourself from a lot of headaches.

System Requirements: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows Vista, Windows 2008 and Windows 7. Both 32bit and 64bit. You will also need a mouse and driver that supports 5 buttons. NOTE: If your mouse has 5 buttons but the 4th and 5th buttons don't do anything in XP64 by default - this probably wont work for you.

License: X-Mouse Button Control is completely free.

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Download: [X-Mouse Button Control]

If you've already tried X-Mouse Button Control and know of a better alternative or need help using the program, please leave a comment.

When it comes to yelling at your teammates that you're being attacked and begging for cover, nothing brings your point across better than voice communication. Of course, most games come with good ol' text chat but having to stop defending yourself just to ask for help is sure to lose you the match or game. Although most games offer in-game voice communication, there are some modern games (like Shattered Horizon) that do not and, let's face it, the majority of the time the in-game voice quality is absolutely horrendous anyway. This is where today's Curious Finding Mumble comes in to save us from having to put up with robotic, static-filled conversation.

While Mumble isn't the first application to provide this functionality, it is arguably the program that does it best. Other voice communication (or VOIP) software like Ventrilo and TeamSpeak simply can't match the voice quality or the price of Mumble. When using Mumble I often find myself looking around to see where the person talking to me is standing, simply because it sounds like they are right there in the room with me. Whereas when using another voice communication application or in-game voice chat, I sometimes find it difficult to understand what people are saying because the voice quality isn't good or clear enough.