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CRU WiebeTech Programmable Mouse Jiggler MJ-3 (Single Unit)
Brand | CRU |
Hardware Interface | USB |
Color | Black |
Compatible Devices | Desktop |
Item Weight | 0.02 Pounds |
About this item
- package dimensions :0.3 cm L x 10.0 cm W x 13.5 cm H
- Product Type :INPUT MOUSE
- country of origin :China
- Features: LED indicator, programmable
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Easy to use | 4.8 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.6 |
Sleep mode | 4.7 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 4.3 |
Value for money | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 4.5 |
Ergonomic | — | 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.4 |
Accuracy | — | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.4 |
Sold By | — | VantungUS | teenemo | teenemo |
data link protocol | — | USB | USB | USB |
hardware interface | usb | usb | usb | usb |
operating system | windows server 2008, windows vista, windows server 2003, mac os x tiger | Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, Linux | Unix | Unix |
weight | 0.02 pounds | 0.01 kilograms | 0.1 grams | 0.1 grams |
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Product Dimensions | 0.8 x 0.6 x 0.3 inches |
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Item Weight | 0.32 ounces |
ASIN | B00MTZY7Y4 |
Item model number | 30200-0100-0013 |
Customer Reviews |
4.8 out of 5 stars |
Best Sellers Rank | #58,254 in Office Products (See Top 100 in Office Products) #989 in Mouse Pads |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Date First Available | October 21, 2017 |
Manufacturer | Wiebetech |
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(No Suggestions) MJ-3 - Mouse jiggler.
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Customers like the quality, performance and ease of use of the network interface controller adapter. For example, they mention that it keeps their computer active all day long, it works very well with Windows and Linux, and that it's easy to program. That said, opinions are mixed on the value.
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Customers are satisfied with the performance of the network interface controller adapter. They mention that it works well with Windows and Linux, has no issues, and works automatically. Some say that the device works fine without the case and has made their life a lot easier.
"...Works like a charm!..." Read more
"Great item, great price. Just plug it into a USB and your computer stays on, 100%! Exactly what I needed. No more logging back in over and over...." Read more
"...Detects as a generic input device, which is also safe in most offices...." Read more
"...On this reorder I just purchased two. The device still works fine without the case, it's just a little harder to get it unplugged...." Read more
Customers find the network interface controller adapter easy to use. They mention that it is easy to program, plug and go, and requires zero configuration. The code is super simple to write and there is no fuss. The adapter works both on PC and MAC and there's no software needed.
"...may prefer the MJ-1 because it has a larger handle, easier to grasp when removing...." Read more
"...Plug-and-play under Windows 10, seems to update at least every minute which will be good for most, and doesn't move the mouse in a super-obvious way..." Read more
"It is as simple as you would hope. No fuss, no issues. Just works." Read more
"...It worked so well and it's brain dead simple to use... (just stick it in an unused USB port and you're done) I ended up ordering another five for..." Read more
Customers are satisfied with the quality of the adapter. They mention that it keeps their computer active all day long, and prevents it from sleeping. The adaptor also allows them to stay logged on until they want to log off. Overall, customers are happy with their purchase and recommend it to others.
"...” or programmable keyboard/mouse playback device, has enhanced productivity significantly without loss of corporate security, due to judicious use..." Read more
"...Plug-and-play under Windows 10, seems to update at least every minute which will be good for most, and doesn't move the mouse in a super-obvious way..." Read more
"Keeps you logged in!" Read more
"...With this nifty device, they never log off and are always up and running so I get the alerts...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the value of the network interface controller adapter. Some mention that it's well worth the money, an excellent purchase, and worth its weight in gold. Others say that it is a bit pricy but works exactly as described.
"Great item, great price. Just plug it into a USB and your computer stays on, 100%! Exactly what I needed. No more logging back in over and over...." Read more
"...poorly designed product and service, especially considering its premium price." Read more
"Excellent purchase. Bought this for work, plugged it into my coworkers computer...." Read more
"Wow this was money well spent. I was skeptical it would work since my employer has our PC's locked down tighter than California in a pandemic...." Read more
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First, many reviews have asked what is wrong with a downloadable software solution instead of this, in order to save money? Well if corporate policy allows that, there's nothing wrong with a software solution. This device happens to masquerade as a standard, HID-compliant USB mouse (and can function as a keyboard as well, see below for details.) It acts as and is seen as, and in fact is, an additional real mouse, nudging the mouse cursor every few seconds to every few minutes, depending on how you program it. I think the default makes it move 8 pixels to the left and then 8 pixels to the right every 60 seconds but you can program the MJ-3 model to vary those actions. So when corporate policy is poorly designed and out of touch with the needs of the corporate workers, a scenario that is unfortunately not uncommon in the least, one can use one's free will to exercise judicious use of workplace time, while not forgetting the security concerns that invoked that corporate policy in the first place - for instance, always log off when leaving the workstation (in Windows that can be quickly done with a windows key-L command.) Even if this pseudo mouse is connected and running for convenience reasons.
A little about programming the device (this only applies to the MJ-3, of course. The MJ-1, with a larger handle, easier to grasp, is not programmable and is a great product as well. I will explain my preference on this below as well.)
To download the programming application for the MJ-3 (programmable version of the Mouse Jiggler) go to www.cru-inc.com/mj3 (which is listed on the package when it arrives) and this requires admin privileges to install. However, you can install this at home and program the mouse at home and then take the newly programmed mouse to work and it works as instructed. The program gives you the ability to enter any instruction in programming mode, such as to flash the device’s LED any number of times upon first plugging it in (to demonstrate that it’s active), and then to move the mouse a specified number of pixels (up, down, left or right) and then wait ("delay") a certain number of seconds, up to 255 seconds per instruction. Or you can do other things like enter any keyboard character you want and then delay. At any point you can flash the LED a certain (any one of 3) colors a given number of times (solid, flashing or once), the purpose of which is to signal to the user that the mouse is active and "jiggling." You can save the programs you created on your hard drive and reload them to program other MJ-3s you've bought, and upload those instructions to the new mouse jigglers. Works like a charm! I like the MJ-3 better than the MJ-1 because it's smaller, doesn't protrude where it can be knocked off or bent if your knee bumps it (of course one could put that into the back of the computer without that risk.) Others who need to pull the thing out at the end of the workday may prefer the MJ-1 because it has a larger handle, easier to grasp when removing. (Another idea to solve that problem is to buy a USB hub with individual on/off switches for its attached devices, such as the Sabrent 4-Port USB 3.0 Hub with Individual Power Switches and LEDs (HB-UM43) or other similar device, which is currently $9.99 with Prime shipping. I will also mention below a programming idea below to solve the problem of yanking the device out of the computer daily to log off.) I also like the smaller jiggling that the programmable version allows - 8 pixels at a time, the default for both the MJ-1 and MJ-3, is a bit too much for the precision, graphics-intensive work I do at my workstation, so I set it to just move a pixel at a time every 255 seconds (looping in a 1 pixel square to complete the loop and then repeat) and it's imperceptible and yet keeps the workstation alive.
Although one can use the device to enter text or simulate any key press, such as alt, shift or control, I do not recommend having it hit the control key because then if you hit "s" at the same time, for instance, it will save the file or program you're working on at the time, and of course other shift or control or alt combinations can have fairly major impacts. Such as rotating the angle of the screen that's displaying, etc. In some programs, particularly Unix/Linux based at the command line, control-c will cancel a running program or script, control-s will pause a running batch file in Windows, and control-q will resume its execution, etc. However, with a combination of mouse moves, mouse clicks and text available one could get pretty creative in a script that's running without one doing concurrent tasks - imagine the mouse going down to the Start button, clicking on it, moving a certain distance and clicking on a known program (or on a desktop icon representing a shortcut) and then entering a login username, password, or whatever, to activate a given program. Perhaps to check remote email on a Linux server, do a remote backup, etc.
Of course, if security reasons make it appropriate, don't forget to "windows-L" to manually lock the workstation if you're getting up and leaving for long enough to make hijacking your computer a possibility. There are *some* reasons for locking the computer - it's just that IT policies don't usually read our minds to know the right time to lock them and end up removing our freedom of choice to do that ourselves. Stealing our rights to make valid judgments is never a reasonable idea unless we're total dolts and then why did they hire us in the first place? The only cheaper way to do this is to have a cheap, $10 watch with a moving second hand. Place it under an optical mouse when you leave the computer and when you return your workstation is still alive. However, I like the Mouse Jiggler device better because I don't need to grab the proverbial watch and balance it under the proverbial mouse - more automatic than that type of manually triggered system.
Here's my programming solution to the "auto logoff" problem, and to the issue of getting questions from coworkers about having worked all night, as well as solving the problem of breaking the device by yanking it out of the workstation at the end of every workday. This solution would allow one to log off, say, at 5 PM and starting at 8 AM the Mouse Jiggler would be active again for another 9 hours, until 5 PM that same day. Or at whatever shift one is interested in maintaining.
You can actually program it to stop moving the mouse (and thus allow auto-logoff) at the same time every day and turn itself on at another time, if you're willing to write a long program and start the jiggling at a certain time to make that work for you. You're allowed to enter any instruction in programming mode (go to www.cru-inc.com/mj3 to get the programming utility), such as move the mouse a specified number of pixels (up, down, left or right) and then wait ("delay") a certain number of seconds, up to 255 seconds per instruction. Or you can do other things like enter any keyboard character you want and then delay, or flash the LED a certain (any one of 3) colors a given number of times (solid, flashing or once.) So in order to make it dormant at 5 PM each day you'd set a starting time (upon which that 5 PM time depends), so let's say the jiggling starts at noon. Program it to move as you wish for a given number of times at the desired intervals until 5 PM - that's 18,000 seconds from noon. (Not as hard as it sounds because one can "copy" one action to another so that saves work.) 18,000 seconds is about 70 times 255 seconds so you'd copy the "255 seconds" command 70 times (or round it off to 240 seconds for 4 minutes even, to make it exact, so 75 instructions of 240 seconds each), and then do the same for no mouse actions (0 pixels in any direction you choose) in a similar way until 8 AM the next day, when you know you'll be logging in. (That's 225 instructions of 240 seconds each not to move the mouse at all.) And then 4 more hours (from 8 AM till noon, when the cycles starts over again, so 60 more instructions to jiggle similar to the noon to 5 PM routine) of mouse jiggling. Not all that much work - I'll bet one can do that programming work in 10-20 minutes, save it to the device and it will execute when you take it to work, and so if you plug it in precisely (in this example) at noon, it'll do that every day. The fact that it's jiggling during the daytime on weekends won't matter because by then it's logged off and jiggling the mouse won't log it back into the computer. If it somehow gets out of sync with the work day, just unplug it and plug it back in right at noon. Ditto for if your shift changes - plug it in 5 hours before end of shift, 4 hours after beginning of said shift for this particular example.
I consider this product nearly as "life changing" as another favorite product for the modern computer user, the Realforce 87U Tenkeyless (White/Gray) keyboard, which is the Steinway piano of computer keyboards. Invest in yourself and your productivity and buy both products!
Plug-and-play under Windows 10, seems to update at least every minute which will be good for most, and doesn't move the mouse in a super-obvious way so it should be fairly safe to use even in an office. Detects as a generic input device, which is also safe in most offices.
Now if she needs to spend half an hour troubleshooting why a video won't display right on iPhone when it looks fine on Android, she doesn't have to keep slapping her laptop every couple of minutes to keep her boss happy. This makes her happy, and it keeps her boss happy too. If you're in a situation like that, get one today.
What I don't like is that I must unplug it to turn it off rather than it having a power button. Eventually the plastic case will break. On this reorder I just purchased two. The device still works fine without the case, it's just a little harder to get it unplugged.
The size is just right if you want to leave it plugged in to your laptop while you throw it in your laptop bag.
What I don't like is that I must unplug it to turn it off rather than it having a power button. Eventually the plastic case will break. On this reorder I just purchased two. The device still works fine without the case, it's just a little harder to get it unplugged.
The size is just right if you want to leave it plugged in to your laptop while you throw it in your laptop bag.
The problem is when I'm writing files to a USB drive and the computer goes to sleep, access to the drive is shut off and the transfer becomes corrupted.
Well, I need those files in order to do my work.So I got this device.
It works perfectly out of the box. Every few minutes, it "moves the mouse" just a tiny bit, which keeps the computer awake if I have to walk away to do something else, and my file transfers complete.
There's a free application you can use to make your own scripts, so if it doesn't "move the mouse" often enough or you need it to send keyboard keys, or make specific mouse movements or clicks, you can use the application to make up your own script and send it to the device, which saves the script.
You do not need to have the application running for the script to work, so you can program the script on your personal computer, then transfer just the device to your work computer, eliminating the need to install the application on your work computer.
I have half a dozen PC's that are used on the job remotely via Windows Remote Desktop for 6-8 hrs per day. I have tried all sorts of software "fixes" to stop them going to sleep (which prevents remote logins), but Windows 10 is hardcoded to go to sleep no matter what you do with the power settings and wakeup software. I'm very grateful that someone mentioned the "Mouse Jiggler" in a review of software fixes. I installed the first Jiggler on one PC without installing any software at all. It worked so well and it's brain dead simple to use... (just stick it in an unused USB port and you're done) I ended up ordering another five for the other remote PC's and they have never gone to sleep again... which means I can now get some sleep as the IT guy who used to get all the complaints!
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Along with jiggling the mouse a few pixels left and right, I have used the programmable feature to do some clicking, scrolling and typing on websites.
Für komplexere Aufgaben lassen sich individuelle Mausbewegungen und Tastatureingaben programmieren. Das habe ich aber bisher nie genutzt.
Mein Fazit: Nicht ganz billig, aber sehr nützlich und zuverlässig.