Existing users, 
I've been using Mouse Locator for years. All you need to do is let your mouse sit for a bit and Mouse Locator quietly highlights it and leaves it highlighted until after you move it. No icon in the dock. No hotkeys. No fuss, no bother. Works every time. Your choice of pointer highlighting thingees, too. I have used it happily for years, through many OSX upgrades.
Then there's Mousepose from BOINX.
This one seems like overkill. And it requires that you think about it too much. And why does it need an icon in the dock?
If you are going to offer something like this, shouldn't it be simpler, easier, less conspicuous and more elegant than what is already available?
Mousefinder
find your mouse cursor
Version: 1.1
What about MouseLocator?
Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: quaoar Sunday, June 29 2008 @ 08:16 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: NO
Comments
What about MouseLocator? - Krystof
Yeah, you've hit on an important point: users may not want the mouse-identifying software running for ALL apps. The ability to have it run under certain apps (or conversely, the ability to disable it for certain apps) would be a nice refinement for both Mouse Locator and Mouse Finder.For instance, I use VMWare Fusion to run stock trading software under Windows XP, but I don't need a mouse viewing assistant to run when I'm using Fusion (since the mouse pointer invariably doesn't show up in the proper screen location anyway, as there's TWO mice on the screen, i.e. the Windows XP mouse AND the OS X mouse). Besides, either of these OS X programs is redundant with the Windows XP ability to highlight the mouse's location by hitting the 'control' key (if this functionality is enabled on XP via the 'mouse prefs' icontrol panel settings).
So disabling Mouse Locator or Mouse Finder for certain apps alone would be welcome, IMO, selected as a preference (whether via a system preference or app preference). I'm envisioning a 'disable mouse finder for these apps' pull-down menu to select the apps you don't want it to operate under while the stated app is 'active' on the screen.
Friday, July 04 2008 @ 04:45 AM PDT
What about MouseLocator? - Swoon
The problem with ML is that cursors centre to the centre of the arrow, not the tip, like most others do. But its simple, sure, great for that. I just have to align the centre of my custom images to the centre, which does take time. I wonder why it is aligned this way, when all others do not.Wednesday, October 08 2008 @ 04:33 PM PDT
What about MouseLocator? - Hirnschmalz
I've tried MouseLocater and first of all its ugly (but that's a matter of taste) and second of all I dont like the highlighting all the time - I wanted to decide when the mouse shoud be highlighted.I really don't understand the "problem" with the dockicon but I will make an extra option in the preferences for not showing an icon in the dock.
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Sunday, June 29 2008 @ 10:24 PM PDT