Thursday, May 15, 2008

StrokeIt

Currently, my favorite web browser is Opera. One of my favorite features is Mouse Gestures. I've gotten so used to using mouse gestures in Opera I often find myself trying to do the same things in IE and Windows Explorer. This was getting on my nerves so bad, because I would right click drag left and a context menu would popup. And I would remember that I wasn't in Opera, cry for a minute, then resume working by moving my hand and clicking on the back button. Today I was watching a Tekzilla episode on mouse gestures and saw a program called StrokeIt. Stroke it works similar to mouse gestures, but it works for everything else. It comes preprogrammed with some basic mouse gestures like Opera, but you can customize it with your own gestures. One really great thing is that when you right click and drag it starts to draw on the screen to show you your gesture. If the gesture is unrecognized in the software, then it asks you if you want to add functionality for that gesture. It's a free download so try it out and become even more productive than before.

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