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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!
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My favorite Android apps
HTC Desire, my new mobile phone toy
I recently got myself a brand new mobile phone, HTC Desire with Android 2.1. And (apologies to my bf) I’m in love. Not only with the phone itself, but the OS as well. I was sick of my previous phone which was, in more ways than one, like a piece of brick – a HTC Touch Pro with Windows Mobile 6.1. I wanted a smartphone with touch screen, possibility of installing additional software (apps) and a well-functioning way of syncing contacts, mail and calendar with my PC. The choice was between an iPhone or an Android-based phone. I’m not a fan of Apple and iPhones, so I decided to give the fairly new Android OS a shot. Almost immidiately after getting myself a Android phone, I see at least five things my phone can do that iPhone can’t.
A few days after I bought my HTC Desire, a bunch of friends also bought a HTC Desire saw how awesome HTC Desire really is that they bought it. Even my boyfriend. He who spent a few days defending his beloved and trusty HTC TyTNII, only to wake up one morning and totally fall in love with my phone. So to share my excitement for Android, support the expanding app market and to tell people which apps that would totally rock their world (well, at least the phone’s world), I’m listing my favorite Android apps in this post. The application market for Android is fairly new, but is expanding fast. There are already tons of applications that make your Android phone even more awesome.
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