Anyone who has a multi-monitor set up knows of the hassle it can be to move your cursor through what seems like miles of screen. Well Steven Feiner of Columbia University’s Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Lab has a widget that just might ease your long distance mousing. Called the ‘M3’ the widget lets you ‘warp’ to different locations on your set up, it accomplishes this by simulating one mouse pointer per monitor when using a single physical mouse device. The M3 allows for conventional control of the mouse within each monitor's screen, while permitting immediate warping across monitors when desired to increase mouse traversal speed. The app is very beneficial to people using a heterogeneous set up which uses monitors of different sizes and resolutions. The program requirements needed are a system running Windows 2000/XP, .Net Framework 2.0 or higher and a five button mouse. Now that should take away some of your multi-monitor headache. The M3 app is free and can be downloaded here: http://graphics.cs.columbia.edu/projects/m3/license.htm
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