Making Mouse Cursor easy to find

By paul on January 5, 2009 9:37 AM | Permalink | Leave a Comment(0) | TrackBacks (0)

GeniusDV provides 'online training services' for a variety of video software programs. We use a nice tool called MouseLocator so students can easily see the mouse cursor. Better yet, the utility is free!

To install Mouse Locator, download MouseLocator.dmg from 2point5fish.com.

Click the Download Alternative Locator Graphics from the installation screen. This will open a web page with various mouse cursors that you can choose from. You can choose to download the gallery package or you can download an individual shape by right-clicking (control-clicking) the shape and downloading it. You will want to save it to the top level of the Pictures folder. If the mouse locator program is already active, close it and reopen it. It will find and load the new shape when it reopens.

After the installation is complete, the Mouse locator will appear as an icon in the Other section of the System Preferences as shown below. You activate it and set its parameters from here.

I like using the small red rectangle. I use the Always On setting when I teach.

Within the preferences, you can set the cursor to fade after the mouse is pushed. The (Show button clicks) setting causes a yellow circle to flash when the mouse button is pressed.