Ben Hines,

By Mark Tennent in Reader

Posted in utilities on September 18, 2008 at 9:44 am

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Are you fed-up with the little critter being too darned slow? Does it take an age to get from the left to the right of your wide-screen monitor? You need MouseZoom.

This free preference pane was released into the wild soon after Mac OS X arrived in 2001 and thank goodness its developer, Ben Hines, has kept MouseZoom updated. Apple have never made their own mouse driver fast enough so a speed-up utility has always been needed for the Mac. Even in System 7/8/9 the rodent drivers were too slow, Mac OS X didn’t change that for the better.

Download MouseZoom’s 142k file, open the disk image and drop the little file into /library/preferencepanes folder. MouseZoom is then fully installed and working. It has two tabs, Mouse and Trackpad. Each has a slider graduated from zero to ten, with corresponding superlatives describing the speed. We use

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