Reprogrammable Razer Naga Buttons, now for the Macintosh!

My faithful reader knows that I'm a huge fan of the Razer Naga. This is a mouse that was just perfectly made for playing MMOs like World of Warcraft. With an extra 12-button keypad under your thumb, you can keep your hand on your mouse all the time, but still have plenty of buttons to cast whatever spells you want to cast. It's awesome.

When it was released, you could only use the keypad to emulate the keyboard's number row (top of the keyboard) or the numeric keypad (right-side). A little while back, they released an update to the system to make it so you could reprogram those buttons, and create mouse-based macros, in the mouse driver. But that update was only for windows users. Earlier this month, with little fanfare (despite the fact that I had actually asked them to email me product updates when I registered my mouse, and had a ticket in with tech support about the mac driver), they released the mac version of the reprogrammable drivers for the naga.

Download it here. Change your buttons if you want. Frankly, for WoW play, I'm not likely to do this - I have a key mapping that worked fine under the old system, with the benefit of being fail-operational: if my naga died, I could go back to using the numeric keypad without having to learn a whole new layout. But still, it's nice to have, and will likely find its way into being useful for a lot of new things as I play with it.