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Omni Group introduces OmniDazzle - "mesmerizing mouse movements"
After weeks of ambiguous hints and torturous teasing, The Omni Group has unveiled their newest product, and it definitely isn't a Sweedish meatball maker. Introducing: OmniDazzle, a "set of fun and useful enhancements that help you track the location of your mouse pointer and provide options for highlighting certain areas of your screen". Basically, it's like one of those mouse-trailing 
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Sir Not Appearing in this Blog said 11:30PM on 6-02-2006
Hasn't this already been done? I can't remember what it was called, but there was another app just like this last year. Just another useless toy to suck cycles and hog memory.
If you're having trouble losing your cursor, try Mouseposé. It's FREE and has a very small footprint. Of course, if you're trying to impress the ladies with some bling-bling, this is clearly the way to go.
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mark said 11:49PM on 6-02-2006
@ Mr. #1 comment leaver.
If you download it, you'll see there is a lot more 'bling' than that glitter.
There's like...a radar, a wave, a draw thingy, there are like....10 COMPLETELY different variations. Glittery shit is just one of them. So no it hasn't been done.
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Stealth43 said 11:51PM on 6-02-2006
“It's fantastic! I don't think I've had that much fun using my mouse since, well, I've never had that much fun using my mouse. OmniDazzle is delightfully silly and amusing, but also surprisingly useful.”
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW.com), Dan Lurie
uhh... umm....uhhh
evaD
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Brian said 12:11AM on 6-03-2006
#1, you were probably thinking of iCursor
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shrimp said 12:51AM on 6-03-2006
I am having endless fun drawing on my iMac's screen. Oh I love three, OmniDazzle.
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Sir Not Appearing in this Blog said 2:05AM on 6-03-2006
Brian, you got it in one. Thanks! Here's the main home page:
http://www.giofx.net/osx/icursor.htm
I really like the fire effect. Very snazzy. Pointless, but snazzy. :)
Mark, I know perfectly well that OmniDazzle has other effects. I'm just saying that it's been done (special graphical nonsense pouring from your cursor IN GENERAL), and for free, apparently. That's all.
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Adrian vG said 2:14AM on 6-03-2006
Utterly useless. Cute idea, though. Pretty animations.
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mark said 2:20AM on 6-03-2006
oooh. my bad/
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David Chartier said 2:51AM on 6-03-2006
#3: In response to the whole 'Dan Lurie' thing... yea, I can't comment on that - yet.
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Alex said 4:56AM on 6-03-2006
OK, I know the Mini G4 wasn't meant to be a gaming god, but you'd think it could run an application like this??
Anyone who's actually using it, how graphics intensive is it?
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Michael May said 5:05AM on 6-03-2006
or presumably 'swedish' ;-)
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Patrick G said 7:59AM on 6-03-2006
Requires a graphic card with pixel shader - doesn't work on my G4 TiBook.
But supporting the GM950 only partially is quite stupid as its probably the most popular gfx-chip at the moment (Mini, MacBook).
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Andy Lee said 8:17AM on 6-03-2006
Very cool. It combines some things that have been done before with a few new tricks, and most importantly, it presents a seamless, intuitive interface.
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Paul Livingstone said 10:39AM on 6-03-2006
How utterly pointless... and they expect people to pay money for it in the future? Uh-huh... good luck with that.
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tripdragon said 10:47AM on 6-03-2006
well thats cause it looks like that developer has teamed up with Omni !
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Kyle said 11:17AM on 6-03-2006
Depends if it works with Keynote, esp. the scribble option it could be useful.
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Brian P said 11:26AM on 6-03-2006
Wow. Won't even work on my 1st gen Mac mini.
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Dan Lurie said 1:01PM on 6-03-2006
I've been using it on a 1.67 PowerBook with the 128MB Graphics card, and it runs fine. I see OmniDazzle as OmniGroup's excuse to play around with core image and see what it can do.
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TerryJ said 4:47PM on 6-03-2006
I am using it on my MacBook 2.0/2BG right now and it's running fine with all the plug ins. I also have a MBP with the higher level graphics but I have not installed this on it yet. I am right now comparing graphic apps like this to decide which machine to keep and sell the other one so I am pretty surprised that the MacBook is able to handle something like this as well as it does.
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Jason Anderson said 8:45PM on 6-03-2006
Ugh! Doesn't work on my Mac mini G4 1.25GHz. :-(
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