Tag Archives: Mouse Gesture

Give Windows The Macbook Touchpad Treatment With TwoFingerScroll

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You've just been shot back up to the top of an article because you touched the touchpad funny. In an attempt to scroll back down, you accidentally enlarge or shrink the text by 450%. After grumbling about it, you repair it and start again. You never noticed it before, but scrolling down makes huge jumps and leaps like taking steps on a ladder. Enter TwoFingerScroll. Read More

Use Basic Mouse Gestures To Navigate Quickly In Gmail [Chrome]

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Gmail is possibly the best email service ever and it isn’t just because it’s fast, reliable and clutter free, but also because the interface itself is designed to make email productive. Among the many features that make email easier to manage in Gmail, there are built-in keyboard shortcuts that allow you to navigate through it with ease. The only problem is that Gmail does not have access to primary shortcut keys since these are occupied by the browser. This means the keyboard shortcuts you use in Gmail aren’t conventional ones; using 'c' to compose, 'k' to move to a new conversation or 'n', to the next message isn’t something you’re familiar with or can guess if you forget, which might lead to you skipping them altogether even though they could help you work faster. Gmail Mouse Gestures is a Chrome extension that allows you to perform three basic functions in Gmail using simple mouse gestures. It allows you to instantly navigate to your Inbox or move to the next or previous email while viewing a conversation. The gestures are triggered by holding down the right-click button and dragging the cursor upward, to the left or to the right. Read More

MouseWrangler: Launch Applications & Replace Lengthy Hotkeys With Mouse Gestures

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Ever wanted to use a simple mouse gesture application that doesn’t force you to draw complex shapes to perform the tasks? MouseWrangler lets you associate the combination of 4 simple mouse movements, including right, left, up, and down with defined hotkey (single or multiple keystrokes) to perform any application-specific action, as well as with application executable to launch it by drawing the mouse gesture. You can use the application to quickly open an associated file or application, and run an exhaustive hotkey combination for any application. All you need is to map the mouse directions with hotkey or application executable file to use the gesture for performing the required tasks. Moreover, the application saves all the mouse gesture related information in INI file, allowing you to share your mouse gesture list with others. Unlike other mouse gesture applications, it allows setting minimum length required to draw a gesture, drawing speed, and distance required to detect a mouse gesture. Read More

Manage Global & Application Wise Mouse Gestures With StrokesPlus

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Whenever you are working, time is one of the most precious commodity, and anything that allows you to save time is the need of every person dealing with deadlines. Here at AddictiveTipsm we are constantly trying to bring you newer tools that help you in performing the designated tasks. Working on a computer requires you to constantly switch between application, open and close windows and other repetitive tasks. Performing the same lengthy set of actions again and again just to do a simple action wastes a lot of the users' time. Previously, we covered StrokeIt, a feature rich mouse gesture application that lets you perform different functions, such as open, close, minimize, and maximize applications only using recorded mouse gestures. It makes your work easier by allowing you to save time wasted in performing redundant operations, like opening and closing applications. Today, we have an alternative to StrokeIt, which lets you create mouse gestures. StrokesPlus is another powerful and more flexible mouse gesture application for Windows, that lets you specify actions based on mouse gestures to automate common tasks. The lightweight application allows you to set and modify global actions. Read More

Gest 3.0 Can Control Photoshop & Browsers Using Mouse Gestures

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Earlier this year, we covered a mouse-gesture application for Windows, called Gest, which includes pre-defined, simple mouse gestures like Up, Down, O, Left and Right, to perform numerous actions in Windows Explorer. Back then, Gest had multi-gesture support and the ability to control only Windows Explorer through mouse gestures. If you’ve been using Gest for a while, you will be glad to know that the program has just been updated to version 3.0. The latest version brings mouse gesture-based controls for PhotoShop and all widely used browsers (including, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari). Besides these improvements, it includes syntax for opening different folders, option to use several circles per gesture, while allowing you to use blank gestures to perform specified actions for all supported applications. Read More

Control Any Mac App With Custom Mouse Gestures Using SwitftRing

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Mac OS X Lion's multi-touch gesture feature lets you perform numerous tasks without moving your mouse pointer across the screen. If you want to further extend the Mac gesture based controls to handle those applications which aren’t supported and perform application specific actions via custom mouse gestures, SwitftRing is a solid pick. SwiftRing is a unique mouse gesture app that doesn’t require drawing mouse gestures to perform specified actions, unlike Gest, Just Gestures, and StrokeIt. So how does it work? You press option key, a ring appears with actions mapped with four directions. Moving mouse pointer to any direction will let you create a gesture based control. Read More

FireGestures – Use Mouse Gestures To Navigate & Switch Tabs In Firefox

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About a month back, we reviewed an extension that allowed you to navigate Chrome using Mouse Gestures. FireGestures is an extension for Firefox that does all that and more. The extension lets you customize mouse gesture for any predefined function. It allows you to change how a mouse gesture appears (the line color, thickness, idle time etc.) and define specific functions using a combination of the Ctrl, Shift and Alt keys with mouse movements. Read More

Gest Now Comes With High Sensitivity And Multi Gesture Support

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A few months back we reviewed Gest, which is a portable application for adding mouse gesture support to Windows Explorer. Since our review, Gest has added many new features, such as, improved messages boxe, option to insert unrecognized gestures, GUI menu bar,  Gest launcher, GUI hotkey support, unlimited gesture directions, mouse trail and high sensitivity options, numerous gestures of one action, gesture-based on mouse-over window, etc., while a great number of bugs have been fixed as well. In this post we will explore new features of Gest 2.2.5. Read More

StrokeIt Is Feature Rich Mouse Gesture Application

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Mouse gesture utilities not only enhance the usage of mouse but they're also responsible to quickly perform an action over active application by just drawing the associated gesture. For instance, with mouse gesture app, you wont have to manually click close button present at top-right corner of window, just draw the defined mouse gesture anywhere to close app window. StrokeIt is by far the most comprehensive mouse gesture application that we’ve seen. It comes with a slew of pre-defined mouse gestures to control different aspects of applications. The supported applications are,  Windows Media Player, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Chat programs, Opera, Outlook, mIRC, Winamp, Windows Explorer and a lot more. Additionally, it contains a long list of Global Actions which can be performed on / from multiple types of applications, including, invoking default email client, run web browser, run explorer, print, undo, redo, find, close MDI window, etc. Read More

Use Mouse Gestures To Perform Tasks In Windows Explorer With Gest

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Gest is a portable tool which brings mouse gesture support for Windows Explorer. You can now perform simple tasks by holding down the right mouse button and drawing a few lines which send commands to Windows Explorer. The tasks that you can perform (with assigned mouse gestures)  include, opening a new window, closing the current window, moving backwards or forward, refreshing the page and so on. For user friendly functionality, there is a mouse trail  which adds a colored line to show the path of your cursor when the right mouse button is used to perform a gesture. You can also set mouse sensitivity to adjust the responsiveness of mouse gestures. Gest provides precise options to allow adding gesture functionality to specified folders, sub-folders, Windows paths or the entire Windows Explorer. Read More

Map Separate Mouse Buttons For Different Applications With X-Mouse Button Control

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Most generic computer mice contain only three main buttons that perform click, right-click and scrolling. Should you have been looking for a way to remap those buttons, then try Mouse Button Control. It is a Windows application that enables remapping the mouse buttons. You can use application specific mappings that can change mouse actions for each application. This way you can use the mouse differently for each application that you specify changes for. It can be quite useful with games which do not inherently support the extended mouse buttons. Simply add an application to the list and change its mouse button gestures according to your requirement. For example, you can add a game to X-Mouse Button Control and enable right windows scroll with the middle click so that your player keeps moving on the right when you hit the middle mouse button. This can help replace the keyboard hot keys with mouse buttons which can result in easier gameplay. However, it is not just restricted to gamers and you can utilize it for applying different mouse button settings to any application. It supports many functions for replacing the mouse buttons, some of which include, cut, copy, paste, volume control, media player control, email client launch, dragging support, save, restore and flip 3D options. It can also be helpful in launching an associated application with a mouse button e.g. MS Outlook on a middle click along with MS Word to transfer composed data. Read More

Just Gestures – Use Mouse Gestures To Control Windows Functions

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Do you use mouse more than keyboard to fiddle around with basic Windows functions? If yes, you might love to try a mouse gesture application which enables user to draw selected shape over the application window to perform some specific functions. Such application comes useful for users who hate using keys, for example Alt + F4 to close window, for basic application windows functions. Just Gesture is a brilliant mouse gesture application which encourages you to use mouse for performing a wide range of functions. With this app, you can draw a shape to invoke Google search in your favorite browser, close active application window from any corner, jump between opened tabs, and do a lot more. Read More

Windows Mouse Gesture App – Mouse Shaker

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Mouse Shaker is a small Windows mouse gesture tool that can help users perform various actions with simply shaking the mouse. Suppose you want an active window to close when you draw a big “C”, this can be achieved with Mouse Shaker. Similarly you can open Firefox browser by drawing an “F”. Read More