For this Weekend Question I turned to the PCG staff and forums to ask: What do you use those extra buttons on the side of your mouse for? Here are our answers, as well as some from our forum.

Press the DPI switch button once and move the mouse. If the cursor speed changes, you’ve found the cause. Cycle through the ...

My mouse has 5 buttons. In OSX I bind the farleft button to expose and the far right to show desktop. I was hoping to do something similar in Linux. The far left to switch to next desktop and the ...

The mouse seems to encourage using your index finger on left, middle finger on the scroll wheel, and ring finger on the right mouse button, with the pinky gripping the side of the mouse.