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In the past we’ve talked about some mouse gesture applications for Windows including ones that targeted specific applications like Firefox. For some people these gestures can save significant amounts of time day in and day out. If you’re one of those people you should probably know that there’s a new mouse gesture program in town, and it’s called gMote.
There are some things that really make gMote unique. For starters it doesn’t have a predefined set of motions that are used to initiate an action. Instead you record all of your actions so that it knows exactly how you draw them. Your only limitation is what you can draw with your mouse.
The next awesome thing is all of the different actions you have at your disposal ready to be assigned to a gesture. The list includes launching a program, opening a folder, executing a keyboard combination/shortcut, and other common actions like going back/forward in your browser. You can even do things like control your media player.
Sounds good, doesn’t it? To get started all you’ll have to do is download gMote, extract the files, and run it. There’s nothing to install. And for the sake of wetting your appetite even more I’ll leave you with a video that demonstrates some of the things gMote is capable of:
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wow!!! this is a cool mouse gesture!!!
To increase productivity, I use easyGestures 4.2 which is a pie menu that pops up inside the browser when you click the mouse and then let you perform various actions at the tip of the mouse pointer with minimum mouse movement. Easy and simple to use.
URL: [addons.mozilla.org]
easyGestures is definitely an awesome Firefox extension. I just wish there was something like that available outside of the browser. Unfortunately I haven’t really seen any pie menu apps that are globally available throughout the operating system.
Still loving StrokeIt ( [tcbmi.com] ). Doesn’t work very well on Vista without some hacks, but on XP and lower it cannot be beaten.
“The installer is around 120k, with the recognition engine weighing in around 10k. Normal memory usage varies by system, but is generally is between 70k and 300k. StrokeIt does not require any additional files or libraries.”
And.. it’s free
StrokeIt has definitely been a long time favorite of mine. It’s been an app I’ve used for years, but I’ve always been looking for something that is more frequently updated.
True, me too. gMote looked like a possible candidate, but I came back to StrokeIt because of the low memory footprint of SI. On Vista I would use gMote for sure
This is nice application, but I have strange problem with my middle mouse button in firefox. I don’t know how to solve this, maybe it’s some bug?
Hey all, I just thought I would also mention that there is a new, open source, mouse gesture program for Windows called High Sign ([highsign.codeplex.com]).
It’s very actively developed, 100% free, and while it’s still in alpha, is already quite functional and stable, just not a ton of features….yet.
You can also check out my unofficial High Sign blog for dev releases: [high-sign.blogspot.com]
Hi
On my company notebook with Vista gMote doesn’t work. It starts and can be configured but I didn’t manage to successully trigger any action by executing a gesture- simply nothing happens. Maybe a security issue?
Btw: StrokeIt works in principle but often crashes or hangs with high CPU load.