SlowMousion: For when mouse precision is more important than speed

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SlowMousion: For when mouse precision is more important than speed

by Brad Linder Aug 28th 2008

Sometimes you want your mouse to be zippy as possible, allowing you to scroll back and forth across a screen for a quick game of Pong or Arkanoid. But when you're trying to make precise movements in an image editing application, precision might be more important than speed. If your mouse is too fast, you might have a hard time drawing straight lines, for example.

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]

Tags: graphics, mouse, slowmousion

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Rocketboy said 6:33PM on 8-28-2008

Eeww.. I don't want goo in my jokes.

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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