“CursorSense is a Mac app that adjusts both the cursor speed and acceleration (also known as the tracking speed). As you move your hand or fingers, the cursor moves on screen in an accelerated manner,” Ron McElfresh reports for McSolo.
“Why do you need this? Having more precise control over the tracking speed makes it easier to move the cursor/pointer to a specific spot on the screen with less finger or wrist movement,” McElfresh reports. “CursorSense controls give you fine tuning that the Mac’s System Preferences don’t have.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: CursorSense is free until Sep 30, 2012. More info and download link here.
I’ve used MouseZoom for years. Never understood why the native speed is so sloooow… Works with my trackpad too.
The default s[eed may be glacially slow, but it is also adjustable.
And you can adjust it beyond what’s possible in System Prefs,
http://www.tylernichols.com/apple/speed-up-mouse-tracking-on-mac-os-x
Where have you been? Kensington Mouseworks has had that ability since the early 1990s. I still use their Expert Mouse (once Turbo Mouse) trackball.
@ mrreeee: exactly. Logitech’s utility is great too. Been using their trackballs for many years.
If a user really wants precise control over the onscreen cursor, then he replaces the mouse with a trackball: fingertip control instead of whole-hand movement.
It isn’t free until Sept, it is free to use until Sept. Big difference (or in other words: a time limited demo)
My mouse cursor works just fine. Mouse control panel has speed adjustments also. I don’t know what this story is talking about. You are not stuck with one speed and it works just fine for me. I can get from one end of my 27″ iMac to the other in one movement.
Not only can I move the mouse cursor fast enough from on side to the screen to the other, I still have enough fine control to move it just a tiny bit to hit small control objects (say, the window control pearls) or do detail work in PhotoShop.
Really, as fas as I am concerned, this app solves a problem that I don’t have.
What’s a mouse? Been using the trackpad for over 6 years.
I’ve been using MagicPrefs for a long time. Can’t use a Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad without it. Great free app.
As you move your hand or fingers, the cursor moves on screen in an accelerated manner
Since when is this something new? Macs have had this for AGES!!! Or perhaps this app fell out of a less intelligent parallel universe along with it’s marketing hype. 😛
Insane that they think they will be able to CHARGE for it at some point. Try it free until September? Uh, ok.
but System Preferences does not allow adjustment for ‘speed’.
It damned well DOES!
Since we’re correcting things here, I thought I’d add this helpful hint:
…with it’s marketing hype.
“it’s” is a contraction of “it is.”
“its” is the possessive personal pronoun, similar to “his” and “hers.”
Your welcome.
“Your welcome.”
That was the funniest thing I’ve seen all day!
you’re welcome!
Thank you sir! Usually I police my own grammar. But when I get tired…
Yawn. Been using USB Overdrive, which includes this among its many features, for years now.
BTW, everyone who has ever used my mouse thinks that its speed and acceleration are way too fast. I find other folks’s cursors to be positively glacial.
Mouse
This has been an issue for Windows users coming over to the Mac for years.
There’s several discussions on Apple’s website about it, very heated in some cases.
I really don’t understand what the issue is.
I’ve used Mac since 1987, and use photoshop for several hours a day.
I heard about Windows users problems a couple of years ago, so I tried a colleagues Windows machine.
I found that mouse control on Windows is truly awful, it feels like your never fully in control of it, with the pointer juddering when trying to do small movements and moving too fast when trying to get across the screen. I tried adjusting it to no avail.
I see why Apple doesn’t have this by default, they’re way is better, Windows users have just gotten used to doing things wrongly.
QFT.
A thousand times QFT.