Mouse Distance Measurer - 5.0

One of the interesting uses of Mouse Distance Measurer is in tracking the mileage you get with your cordless mouse, per rechargeable (or disposable if you are being wasteful) battery charge. Presently, I am getting between 9,024 and 10,952 meters per charge with 2 NiMh 2600 mAh ea. This is very useful information which helps me to carefully plan my battery recharge schedule, and to know now many batteries I need to keep on hand, and how many to take on trips. This alone more than justifies the minimal cost of the application in battery savings, and increased productivity.

While unfortunately much maligned, misunderstood, and under-appreciated, MDM for OSX is part of a growing trend within the greater community of Macintosh developers towards enhanced cybermetric observation of personal computing platforms.

Other initiatives include system add-ons and stand-alone applications that seamlessly track such data as number of times computers are started-up and shut-down, frequency of laptop lid closures, keys typed per minute, per hour, per day, week, month, year, mouse movement patterns (i.e. constant, smooth, steady, active, dynamic, jumpy, erratic, wild, etc), voice recognition statistics (i.e. voice volume averages, frequency of detected speech, basic analysis of audible emotional cues and other speech patterns over time), sound volume and screen brightness adjustments, application meta histories, and many other observed patterns, including, of course mouse distance travelled.

Among developers participating in this trend there is much excitement and enthusiasm, and a hope that increased cybermetric data collection and SETI@home-like sharing of the task of analysis, will result in further empowerment of endusers to better manage and control their experience, while assisting developers moving forward towards the creation of applications that better understand, address and automatically self-adapt to the ever-changing personal computing environment, and the evolving needs and habits of the individual humans who operate these machines.

Years ago there was a great organisation out of Canada called Toggle Booleans. Maybe you remember it. They had the most hilarious applications. They were submitted from all over the world.

Toggle Booleans had a mouse odometer. As I remember it, it could measure the distance your mouse traveled in light years!

They also had the invincible 'Elvis Detector' with full instructions how to detect Elvis Presley in your vicinity. Awesome stuff.

But it was all FREE.

The best part of this software is the reviews it generates. AlphaOmega - keep up the good work generating spamware so I can read the reviews.

that yesterday someone asked (about one of the other products) something to the effect of "Do they try to come up with software nobody would ever use then try to sell them?"

When I clicked on the link I said "I wonder if this is AlphaOmega"