Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Favorite OS X Gizmos & Gadgets Redux

In my other post below I said "SoundSource" by RogueAmoeba but I've since discovered a better freebie utility called "Detour." It does the same thing as SoundSource, only you can set the input audio and output audio on an application-by-application basis. Very cool, and it has instantly replaced SoundSource.

Another gizmo I use that I forgot about is "Mouse Locator" by 2point5fish.com. This little gizmo does one simple thing: when the mouse has been inactive for a specified amount of time, and you move the mouse, it puts a large bulls-eye over the mouse so you can locate it visually immediately. Since I installed it, not once have I lost the cursor on my screen. That, combined with the built-in OS X ability to increase the size of the cursor, has greatly lessened by frustration with moving the mouse round and round in a little circle in order to find the crazy thing.