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Title: The May keyboard / mouse showdown
Post by: Computer Hope Admin on April 27, 2008, 03:35:16 PM
With the fairly successful April showdown I thought we'd do another in May. I'm posting this early so everyone who wishes to participate can prepare and to get some feedback on any issues with the free utility I was planning on us using to monitor this information.

The utility is: Mousotron (http://www.blacksunsoftware.com/mousotron.html) and keeps track of the overall distance you've moved your mouse, how many times you've pressed the left/right buttons, double-clicked, and how many keystrokes you've typed on the keyboard.

I tried locating a Apple computer solution but couldn't find one so if any users know of any please let us know. However, after testing for a day seems to run ok. For those of us who install this early we'll reset this at the beginning of May.

Title: Re: The May keyboard / mouse showdown
Post by: boo on April 28, 2008, 08:24:09 AM
already downloaded it.
what a cool app!
Title: Re: The May keyboard / mouse showdown
Post by: michaewlewis on May 01, 2008, 02:46:28 PM
Well, I'm out... you have to be logged in as administrator to install it. :(
Title: Re: The May keyboard / mouse showdown
Post by: Sidewinder on May 01, 2008, 04:42:03 PM
I'll pass.

What's the difference between Mousotron and a keylogger? For what it's worth, the program after install, tripped the firewall and requested permission to use the internet. It's bad enough out there without inviting the crapware in.

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Title: Re: The May keyboard / mouse showdown
Post by: Computer Hope Admin on May 03, 2008, 12:07:02 AM
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Well, I'm out... you have to be logged in as administrator to install it. :(

Thanks for posting this, wasn't aware it required admin rights.

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What's the difference between Mousotron and a keylogger? For what it's worth, the program after install, tripped the firewall and requested permission to use the internet. It's bad enough out there without inviting the crapware in.

The difference between this program and a keylogger is this program does not log everything typed, it simply monitors how many times a any of the keys on the keyboard has been pressed. As far as I was able to tell it does not contain any spyware, crapware, or any other malware.
Title: Re: The May keyboard / mouse showdown
Post by: Sidewinder on May 03, 2008, 01:38:11 PM
I did not mean to imply that the Admin would have members download and use a program full of spyware, crapware, or other malware.

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The difference between this program and a keylogger is this program does not log everything typed, it simply monitors how many times any of the keys on the keyboard has been pressed

It just seems strange, that a program that is gathering local machine statistics would have a need to use the internet. The program is probably harmless enough but I'll still pass and have one less thing to worry about. :)

Title: Re: The May keyboard / mouse showdown
Post by: boo on May 03, 2008, 03:04:57 PM
I did not mean to imply that the Admin would have members download and use a program full of spyware, crapware, or other malware.

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The difference between this program and a keylogger is this program does not log everything typed, it simply monitors how many times any of the keys on the keyboard has been pressed

It just seems strange, that a program that is gathering local machine statistics would have a need to use the internet. The program is probably harmless enough but I'll still pass and have one less thing to worry about. :)


the reason it uses the internet is that you can get it to automatically upload your stats to the internet and compare them with other people on their website
if you click on setup mousetron then you will see this option under "data upload"
Title: Re: The May keyboard / mouse showdown
Post by: KenJackson on May 06, 2008, 12:17:43 PM
The utility is: Mousotron (http://www.blacksunsoftware.com/mousotron.html) and keeps track of the overall distance you've moved your mouse, how many times you've pressed the left/right buttons, double-clicked, and how many keystrokes you've typed on the keyboard.

I just downloaded Mousotron under Wine (http://winehq.com/) on Linux and it works!

It gets better.  I'm actually sitting at my downstairs PC, but Wine is running on my upstairs PC, so I started the executable in an SSH window (so it executed on my upstairs PC).  The installation boxes popped up on the screen in front of me exactly the same as if I were running windows.  Now the Mousotron bar with time, distance, keystrokes, etc. is displayed here on this PC logging my local mouse movements and clicks (but not keystrokes!) even though it's actually running in the Wine environment on the other PC.
Title: Re: The May keyboard / mouse showdown
Post by: Computer Hope Admin on May 07, 2008, 08:10:35 AM
I'm impressed Ken. :)
Title: Re: The May keyboard / mouse showdown
Post by: Carbon Dudeoxide on May 26, 2008, 03:42:33 AM
Woah. I know this is a bit late but I just noticed this topic. Gonna try it out  ;D
Title: Re: The May keyboard / mouse showdown
Post by: Kip on May 26, 2008, 12:15:50 PM
I just noticed Pitaschio (http://pitaschio.ara3.net/) has a feature similar to Mousotron.
If you right click the Pitaschio system tray icon and click statistics, you will get something like this:

Quote from: Pataschio
Total/ hourRatio Moving distance   868715 pixel   385002 pixel    Left click108348086.29 %Wheel click101458.05 %Right click71315.66 %Wheel (up)108047926.55 %Wheel (down)2988132473.45 % A133597.09 %B28121.49 %C49222.61 %D73323.89 %E25211213.43 %F51232.72 %G51232.72 %H71313.78 %I115516.13 %J1780.91 %K1670.85 %L65293.46 %M54242.88 %N123556.56 %O162728.64 %P28121.49 %Q210.11 %R134597.14 %S128576.82 %T165738.80 %U59263.14 %V38172.03 %W1670.85 %X1040.53 %Y33151.76 %Z310.16 %
Title: Re: The May keyboard / mouse showdown
Post by: Zylstra on May 30, 2008, 06:21:49 PM
Now I have a reason to flick my mouse around out of boredom.. (even though I have a trackpad)
Title: Re: The May keyboard / mouse showdown
Post by: Zylstra on May 30, 2008, 08:27:19 PM
Wow...

in 2 hours, 53 minutes:
Moved the mouse (trackpad) 388 yards, 33 inches.
Made 7558 keystrokes
Clicked the left button 1715 times
Clicked the right button 40 times
Middle button 6 times
254 Double-clicks
Title: Re: The May keyboard / mouse showdown
Post by: Carbon Dudeoxide on May 30, 2008, 09:19:14 PM
If you have a try at Pitaschio (the one Kip showed us), you will notice that the letter E is most used in all the letters of the alphabet.
Title: Re: The May keyboard / mouse showdown
Post by: Zylstra on May 31, 2008, 09:08:14 PM
Okay... so, I didnt shut down my computer last night and have no idea how the counter works (the clock counter), but:
1 Days, 2 hours, 46 minutes.
Mouse movement:
935 Yards, 10 inches.
4722 left button clicks
101 right button clicks
28 middle button clicks
709 double clicks

28839 keystrokes

I will admit though, I have the habit (and always have) of moving the mouse around and clicking randomly when I am bored or waiting for something to complete.
Title: Re: The May keyboard / mouse showdown
Post by: boo on June 01, 2008, 07:31:02 AM
lol!
and i thought i was the only one!
Title: Re: The May keyboard / mouse showdown
Post by: Carbon Dudeoxide on June 01, 2008, 07:34:27 AM
If you have a try at Pitaschio (the one Kip showed us), you will notice that the letter E is most used in all the letters of the alphabet.
Now after playing Halo and CounterStrike, W,S,A and D have dominated all.

2 days, 5 hours, 24 mins:
3.6km total mouse movement. It's all the games, I swear!
Title: Re: The May keyboard / mouse showdown
Post by: Kip on June 01, 2008, 10:14:34 AM
23 days 1 hour 49 minutes 53 seconds
8 miles 1682 yards 25 inches (14.4 kilometers)
keystrokes:   42,686left button clicks:   60,075right button clicks:   7,122middle button clicks:   4,189double clicks:   3,553mousewheels:   123,420
Title: Re: The May keyboard / mouse showdown
Post by: Zylstra on June 01, 2008, 12:52:55 PM
It doesnt count the mousewheel for me at all... how unfortunate. It does figure out when I use the Middle button (which, is when I click the Left and Right buttons at the same time)

Then again, I have a trackpad... but, it has the scroller thing on the side..
I'm being whiny now.. I should go take a nap
Title: Re: The May keyboard / mouse showdown
Post by: boo on June 01, 2008, 02:08:04 PM
my thoughts exactly :D
Title: Re: The May keyboard / mouse showdown
Post by: Computer Hope Admin on June 02, 2008, 12:31:51 PM
29 days 11 hrs, 52 min, 35 sec
8 miles, 1121 yards, 4 inches
610,663 - keystrokes
63,342 - left button
24,743 - right button
1,193 - middle button
2,117 - double clicks
75,026 - mouse wheel