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SteadyMouse
SteadyMouse is free software designed to assist people with the hand tremors that commonly go along with Parkinson's disease, Multiple sclerosis, etc.

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Major Features:
  • Anti-tremor mouse filtering
  • Removal of accidental mouse clicks
  • Assistive "Icon Targeting" system
  • Quick enable/disable using the scroll lock key
  • Simple design for easy configuration
  • SteadyMouse was started by me in 2005 after reading an article on the BBC about a new mouse adapter meant to assist people with essential tremor. The device, from IBM, was not yet available, and my Grandfather was already having major difficulties due to Parkinson's Disease. I thought I could throw something together in software, spent a serious few weekends writing code, and that pretty much led to where things are now. I'm thankful to IBM for their innovation, and would encourage anyone unsatisfied with SteadyMouse to consider buying their adapter. In the mean time, this project is intended to provide something that's free, quick, and hopefully just as good.

    Cheers,
    Ben Gottemoller

    Special thanks are in order to a few friends who've been helping along the way:

    • Andrew Gottemoller - For finding solutions to several very difficult issues, one of which allowed me to throw out the mouse device-driver based architecture that would have been ever so painful.
    • Grant Farrand - For all the lessons in digital signal processing
    • Scott Moeller - For more lessons in digital signal processing
    • Dr. James Gottemoller - For being a wonderfully patient test subject :)
    • Hugh at WeMove - For being a huge help with the beta testing on v1.1

    Current Release

    Download SteadyMouse v1.3 Beta [1.82 MB] - 23 March 2006

    Release Note: Version 1.3, like 1.2 is fully compatible with Windows XP, 2000, NT and later. Support for older operating systems is in progress but not yet available. Please send any bugs to me at bugs@steadymouse.com
      Bug Fixes in v1.3:
    • Basic (non-admin) users can run SteadyMouse.
    • Settings are now saved on a per user basis.
    • Fixed a severe problem with the main mutex shared between several threads (Thanks Andrew!).
    • Message window text is read-only now.
    • Much much more that I don't remember at 11pm on a Thursday.
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