One of my biggest gripes about OSX right now is the scroll wheel on my mouse. When Apple released Mountain Lion, they decided that "natural" scrolling is now the default and the standard, so all of us need to just get used to the path that Apple is blazing.
Natural works amazing for the trackpad. I'm so used to my iPad and my iPhone, that it just feels right. The problem is, I've been using scroll wheels for much much longer than my iPhone, so I expect them to behave a certain way. Apple does give you the option to turn this off, but while they give us separate settings screens for the trackpad and the mouse, the scrolling attributes are linked. So turn off natural on one, and it removes from the other as well. It's a pain in the ass to have to switch every time I decide to use this machine as a laptop, then switch back when I dock in.
Enter Scroll Reverser (http://pilotmoon.com/scrollreverser/).
With Scroll Reverser, you can adjust the scrolling direction per type of input. I now have my scrolling set to Natural in System Preferences, but reverse it for the mouse through Scroll Reverser. It hangs out in your menu bar, and you can tell it to launch on login to keep it working for you. Pow.
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