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Become a creative multitasker with IOGraph


Ever feel like spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations weren't your true calling? Do you yearn to have a more creative side but can't find the time with all your office commitments? I've got just the thing for you. IOGraph is a fun little app for Mac OS X and Windows that turns all the starts, slides and stops of your mouse into modern art.

Simply launch the app and go about your boring day-to-day office work. IOGraph works in the background by recording all the moves of your mouse in pencil-thin lines on a white digital canvas. When you stop your mouse a dot forms. The longer the mouse is static, the larger the dot will be. By the time you leave the office you'll have created a canvas that Pollock would be proud of.

Besides being cool for making you a savant, IOGraph is an interesting app that allows you to track just how much cursor love your screen gets, and at the end of the day, you'll even have a new piece of art to set as your desktop wallpaper. The image for this post is the result of IOGraph creator Anatoly Zenkov's 3 hours of work in Photoshop. It'd be interesting to see what someone ends up with after playing Left 4 Dead 2 for a few hours. IOGraph is a free download.



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jakebm503

Wow! Amazing app. Wherever did you hear of such a thing?

January 05 2011 at 11:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
emailme

Check out http://meetingcancer.tumblr.com/. A collection of work days collected with iograph. Pretty neat.

January 05 2011 at 1:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Phil

I ran this little app for 5 months last year, creating a new one everyday. Some pretty cool results. Check them out here if you're interested:

http://www.philbuchanan.com/backup/mousepath.html

January 05 2011 at 10:14 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kyleabaker

Just wanted to point out that its actually available for more than Mac and Windows -- Linux too since its written in Java, but yes... it is pretty cool!

http://kyleabaker.com/2010/06/03/paint-your-mouse-movements-with-iograph/

Too bad it doesn't have an option to define the color of the dots based on their size as well to make a colorful picture.

January 05 2011 at 10:13 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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