Vippy a writer friendly cursor

Martin Brinkmann — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:13:30 +0000

Sometimes it´s the small changes that make a big difference. I´am writing a lot of articles as you all know and I find it sometimes hard to locate the cursor in my articles, especially when it is late in the evening and I´am tired. Vippy is a small utility that does only one thing: It changes the color of the cursor to red. Take a look at the image to see the difference. The great thing about vippy is that it should work in nearly all windows applications including Microsoft Word and Open Office.

As you can cleary see on the image to the left the top cursor is rather hard to locate while the red cursor in the second text is way easier to spot. After installing the only 50K freeware you see the current active cursor which is the windows default cursor. You can change this cursor into a small, medium or large custom red cursor which additionally can be displayed in bold.

I changed mine to medium and bold and it is working like a charm. The red cursor will be activated when you hover your mouse over text. Which means that the blinking cursor at the end of the current letter is still black.

I´ve tested it so far in firefox, microsoft word, opera and notepad. It did change the cursor in all programs but Opera to the red cursor. Let me know if you find this one helpful or a waste of time..

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