Spotlights are commonly used in concerts and musical theatres to focus an audience's attention on a performer as he moves around the stage.
MouseLight has borrowed the concept from theatres and applied it your computer where the actor is the mouse cursor and the stage is the desktop screen.
When you are doing a PowerPoint presentation or a software demonstration and want the audience to focus on some specific area of the screen, MouseLight puts a circular spotlight around your cursor and highlights that area allowing your audience to follow you - the rest of the screen outside the spotlight circle is dimmed automatically.
There's another advantage of MouseLight - If you are work on a large screen or a dual monitor, it's so common that you keep losing track of the mouse pointer. With MouseLight, just press the hotkey and you'll immediately know where the cursor is placed on the screen. No guesswork required.
MouseLight is available for Windows only, Mac users have a similar application called Mouseposé. MouseLight for Windows is available for $20 while the Mousepose for Mac costs only $10.
Not to be confused with Apple Desktop Search Software which is also known as SpotLight.
Related: Do Live Presentations without a Projector
Reader Comments
...you'll immediately know where the cursor is placed on the screen...
Or you could save yourself some $ and use Windows' "Show location of pointer when I press the CTRL key" feature ( Control Panel > Mouse > Pointer Options ) :D
Assuming, of course:
1. You're using Windows
2. You want this software just to track your pointer ( really? )
Written on 8/9/07 7:41 AM
Xgood one... i liked it may be really useful when you want people to look at particular point not at all places
Written on 8/9/07 9:50 PM
Really neat software. Thanks for the link.
Written on 9/9/07 1:10 PM
Hi Amit,
Just wondering if the $3 price is a typo, or a special rate for Digital Inspiration readers since the software is listed at $19.95 on the developers site :-)
Written on 10/9/07 11:19 AM
Cherian - thanks for pointing that.. this is surprising because when I wrote the story, the cost was actually $2.99 but now it says $19.95.
Written on 10/9/07 11:30 AM
Amit, $3 is waaay too low for this product. IMO 19.95 is ideal.
I also REALLY like their other product, ScreenInk (http://www.vizidesk.com/screenink.html).
I've tried a lot of other screen annotation products, and ScreenInk is the most usable.
Written on 11/9/07 2:22 AM
This Mouse Pointer will be really helpful for my presentations. Moreover, the other products are also good in there.
Written on 11/9/07 3:00 PM
I know this thread is old, but this product is so out-of-the-box that I had to post. Godd idea, even better execution.
Written on 11/9/07 9:27 PM