Virgin Install: MouseZoom

I'm a simple man, with simple pleasures. Mousezoom is one of those little programs that you can't live without but you forget that you are living with it until you use a new Mac. I started up my new Mac mini and was shocked at how slow the mouse was. It was dragging.

Then it hit me, there was no MouseZoom on this machine. MouseZoom is a prefpane that allows you to control how fast your mouse cursor goes, and it can go much, much faster than Apple's maximum setting.

Here's what it looks like:

As you can see I have the speed set to 5.01 on my Powerbook and Apple's max setting is 1.7. Download and install Mousezoom. You'll thank me later.

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I'm a simple man, with simple pleasures. Mousezoom is one of those little programs that you can't live without but you forget that you are...

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Macuser

I have never had a problem with my mouse speed. I just went to universal access and adjusted it a lot in both directions and noticed absolutely nothing.

June 22 2005 at 7:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Peter

Is there something different about the mouse speed on the Mini than there is on other Macs? I've always found that even Apple's maximum setting is waaaay too fast for me. I can barely control the pointer when I set it up there, so I don't understand why people would want it to be faster.

June 22 2005 at 2:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Cory

I prefer USB Overdrive X over mousezoom. I find the acceleration in OS X more annoying than anything. With USBOX I can get rid of the acceleration so the mouse moves at a consistent rate much as it does in *excuse my profanity* Windows.

June 22 2005 at 2:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Victor Castrejon

I am new mac user and I found mouse pointer extremely slow even in the fastest settings thanks alot P.S. its a shame that apple still uses the one button mouse, not fair for a old pc user :(

June 22 2005 at 2:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

totoro

that was the first thing i noticed on my mac mini...wtf is up with the mouse speed??? thanks for the tip!

June 22 2005 at 12:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ryan

I totally forgot this handy little utility existed! Thanks!

June 22 2005 at 12:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

teece

Ah, thanks for this. I had never bought the shareware program, but this is one thing my wife complains loudly about when she uses my iMac -- "the mouse is ridiculously slow. This sucks" That's fixed.

June 22 2005 at 12:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply