Take your eyes off the screen and ‘here’ will show you exactly where your mouse pointer is. No shaking your mouse and losing your position.
Creating a critical spreadsheet, retouching a complex photo, or reading a scientific paper? After you answer your phone, rub your eyes, or step away, you’ll waste precious time looking for your mouse cursor. With a desktop that’s also saturated with files and folders, just turn away and you’ll go looking for that cursor again. Work on multiple monitors late into the night? Now you’ll know where, and on which monitor — even from across the room!
“here” is a brilliant new app that helps you pick up where you left off. Anytime your mouse is idle, a bright, shape highlights your cursor, marking its position. Inside your shape, a live counter displays how long your mouse, pen, or touchpad has been inactive. Easily change your shape’s color, size, and transparency to fit your task or just because you want to. As soon as you resume work, your shape will fade or pop-off. Pause or take a break, and your shape comes back on, waiting patiently for you to continue.
If every second count in what you do, always know where your cursor is. It’s ‘here’.
Features:
choice of 3 shapes: circle, diamond, or square. more shapes coming soon
adjustable size of 20 to 500 pixels
choose or change color anytime
color transparency from 20 to100%
set “idle time” before shape’s appearance from 5 to 1200 seconds (20 minutes)
“idle time” counter displays inside shape at 1/10 second intervals (shape size must be above 130 pixels)
option to turn off the “idle time” counter
choose if your shape fades in, fades out, pops on, or pops off
senses mouse movements, pens, mouse scroll wheel, or touchpad gesture events
handles keyboard events when not focus on text input mode
simple control panel, easily accessible from the menu bar
instant feedback configuring color, size, and transparency
shows mouse position during (idle and forced) sleep and wake up
multithreading core
Version History:
v1.82 -> v2.00
A VERY IMPORTANT UPGRADE ACCORDING TO THE USER’S FEATURE REQUEST:
add Fully Customizable Global Hotkey to invoke the shape immediately whenever you want to locate your mouse pointer; (hotkey preset to command control shift h)
more detailed technical support email templet
more detailed feature request email templet
more by dragonBTV panel updated
v2.00 -> v2.07
add check box of “use the global hotkey”
add alert dialog switch between “use global hotkey” and “handle keyboard event”
more by dragonBTV panel updated
v2.07 -> v2.20
hide dock icon option added according to user’s feature request
color of the status menu bar icon changed to white under OS’s dark menu mode
color of buttons changed under OS’s dark menu mode
more by dragonBTV updated
v2.20 -> v2.30
Easy Startup Tip added under the Support menu
more by dragonBTV updated
v2.30 -> v3.02
Any Mac (Apple Silicon, Intel) version for macOS Big Sur
app core rewritten
counter font color fits both light and dark mode
app icon changed
startup tip modified
status menu bar icon changed for the dark mode
interface fine-tuning for dark mode
bug fixed: countdown not displaying in the center of the shape
bug fixed: white background even in dark mode
minimum shape size with counter display changed from 130 to 100
app version display added
support menu updated
hide app dock icon function rewritten
all deprecated functions rewritten
What’s new
v2.22 -> v3.02
Any Mac (Apple Silicon, Intel) version for macOS Big Sur
app core rewritten
counter font color fits both light and dark mode
app icon changed
startup tip modified
status menu bar icon changed for the dark mode
interface fine-tuning for dark mode
bug fixed: countdown not displaying in the center of the shape
bug fixed: white background even in dark mode
minimum shape size with counter display changed from 130 to 100
app version display added
support menu updated
hide app dock icon function rewritten
all deprecated functions rewritten
Compatibility: OS X 10.15 or later, 64-bit processor