That’s the end of the calibration phase and HeadMouse 2 can be used from then on to control the computer mouse. The mouse cursor can be moved by turning the head into the direction it should be moved. Turning the head to the left side would move the cursor to the left while turning it up would move it up.

There are three different methods to perform a mouse click. A mouse click can be initiated by closing the eyes, opening the mouse or not moving the head around for 1.5 seconds. At least one method has to be activated. Objects like windows or icons can be moved using the very same principle by clicking once on the object to activate it, moving the head to move it and clicking again to place it.

There are several occasions where HeadMouse 2 could come in handy. It provides the means to control the mouse with a webcam and movement of the head. While it is not as fast as using the hands to control the computer mouse it provides sufficient means to work with the computer.

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SlowMousion comes to the rescue. The software sits quietly in the system tray upon installation and provides the user with one feature: To slow down the computer mouse speed. It makes use of a global hotkey to slow down the computer mouse. By default that hotkey is the Windows key but it can be changed to other keys, and the left-, middle- and right-mouse buttons.

The mouse speed is reduced to a fraction of the normal speed upon pressing the hotkey which has to be pressed continuously for the effect to last.

SlowMousion does not (unfortunately) come with options to adjust the slow down factor which would definitely be a recommended setting for an updated version.

The software program is compatible to windows2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista.

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Three global settings are provided by KatMouse. The first is the default wheel scroll speed which is set to 3 lines at a time, the second the ability to scroll page-wise by pressing the wheel button and the left (down) or right (up) mouse button and finally the option to push down windows in the desktop Z-order with the Wheel button when the window is active.

Custom scroll settings can be defined for applications and classes. Applications have to be added by browsing to the application’s executable while Classes are added by dragging and dropping files into the program window of KatMouse.

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X-Mouse Button Control was that application. It runs on 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP, 2003 and Windows Vista and is using roughly 2 Megabytes when running in the background. The main purpose – better my purpose – of using that software is to add functions to a fourth and fifth mouse button. It would not make much sense to change the left, middle or right mouse button because they are already reserved for important Windows functions.

You can configure buttons to launch applications, issue specific Windows commands or simulate keystrokes. It could be configured to open the email application, web browser or a text document but also to switch to windows or cut, copy and paste text.

It’s very versatile and can simulate almost everything on the computer. Another excellent feature is the ability to create mouse layouts for specific applications. This would make it possible to use customized actions for selected applications. You could set copy and paste to the fourth and fifth mouse button in a text editor and load a playlist or video in your favorite media player. One thing that’s missing is the option to set actions for the mouse wheel as well but that’s the only criticism that I have.

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Eight functions are offered in total, it is possible to set the double right-click to lock, shutdown or log off the computer, to minimize the active window or all windows, to close the active window or all windows and to mute the sound.

The major problem that I have with this application is that a (double) right-click always opens the right-click menu as well. I tried configuring the double right-click to minimize all windows and the reaction time was not great. First the right-click window opened, then nothing happened for some time and after a few seconds all windows where minimized.

It’s probably better to configure the additional mouse buttons if your mouse has any instead of trying to add a function to the double right-click. My Logitech mouse is already a bit older but it has so many buttons that I sometimes press one accidentally.

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I personally like the idea of the script but would prefer if it would be integrated into a bigger script collection to justify starting this script with Windows. My system tray would be filled with this great tiny one-purpose scripts otherwise.

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It feels like bending the monitor to achieve this effect which feels kinda strange at the beginning but one gets the hang of this feature really soon. The effect is blocked on the top right corner of the screen because of the usual window functionality buttons that reside there in fullscreen.

CursorUS can be configured to block the cursor from passing a direction. You could set it up for instance to only move the mouse to the opposite end of the screen horizontally while the move would be blocked vertically. Most users will probably block the bottom border from being passable because of the task bar.

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It actually does not look that bad in motion, take a look at this presentation video to get an idea how combimouse works. It still seems to be kinda awkward to move the right unit as a mouse especially when you consider that some keys on the right unit function as mouse buttons when in mouse mode. Would you consider buying this ?

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#Create custom data entry forms, user interfaces, and menu bars. See GUI for details.
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