Filed under: Design, Utilities, Windows, Freeware
SlowMousion: For when mouse precision is more important than speed
by Brad Linder Aug 28th 2008 at 4:00PM
That's where SlowMousion comes in. This free Windows utility allows you to select a hotkey on your keyboard or your mouse to hit when you want your mouse cursor to move very slowly. When you try dragging your mouse with the hotkey depressed, no matter how quickly you drag, the cursor will move veeerrrry slooowwwly.
There does not appear to be a way to make the slow movement the default and hit a hotkey for faster motion, so it doesn't look like SlowMousion will do you much good in the practical jokes department. But if you need all the help you can get trying to draw straight lines, this little app could come in handy.
[via Lifehacker and Freeware Genius]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Rocketboy said 6:33PM on 8-28-2008
Eeww.. I don't want goo in my jokes.
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Jason said 1:26PM on 8-29-2008
this blog is an absolute godsend for the casual user - thank you guys.
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