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Geeky fun: Mouse tracking

I admit it, I’m not easily amused. The things that do amuse me, are most often geeky stuff. This is no exception. The last few days my days have been enlightened by using a great mouse tracking software, IOGraphica, a free software which is just for fun. IOGraphica records your mouse movements and pointer stops, and if you let it record long enough, it produces pretty cool abstract images. Pointer stops are marked as dots, and the longer the pointer are left at the same spot, the larger the dot becomes.

I have only been using the software for a couple of days, and mostly in three different situations; scripting and testing a web-based game, using Photoshop with a mouse, and web development at work. It’s pretty cool to see the differences in mouse movements in each of the situations! (yep, I’m a geek) I have yet to try tracking my pointer movements when digitally painting using my tablet.

Check out the creator of IOGraphica’s Flickr set of his mouse trackings, and my (so far) mouse track images below:

The software is free, small and easy to understand. You can save the images as full-resolution PNG images so you can overlay them ontop of a desktop screenshot, like I’ve done in some of the images above. If you’re interested in trying it, just download it from here. Then you start the recording, forget about it, and after a few hours or so you have your very own image!

June 30th, 2010 in Tech talk | tags: geek, mouse tracking |  Print This Post | No Comments