This is the first version of Mouseposé to be offered on the Mac App Store. On Max OS X Snow Leopard, Mouseposé now shows it's effects above Exposé and Spaces, making it a lot more useful for demoing in those situations. A few important bug fixes round up this release.
A new option "Only complete modifier key combos" shows keystrokes only if they are a combination of a key and modifier like command or shift. It therefore supresses display of modifier keys pressed without another key.
In addition to this, you can define a list of keystrokes that should not be displayed when typed to the keyboard.
Mouseposé takes communicating mouse clicks a few steps further. It is now a lot easier for your audience to follow your clicks on the screen. Specifically Mouseposé 3 adds the following features:
In addition to the traditional circle effect Mouseposé can now also focus on a full window. When this new option is switched on the effect will transition from the circle to a highlight of the fully visible window under the mouse after some mouse inactivity.
New options with reasonable default settings help you communicate your keystrokes better to your audience. The SHIFT key will now also be shown independently, which is especially useful in combination with mouse clicks, and there's a new option to hide the Mouseposé hotkeys as you probably do not want to present those to your audience.
Mouseposé 2.5 features the ability to display all pressed keystrokes in an overlay along the bottom of the screen. Equipped with a hot key amongst other helpful settings, this feature let's your audience exactly follow what you are typing. How often have you been typing "Command-W" with you audience asking how you made that window disappear?
Other areas of Mouseposé have been enhanced and improved to better suit your needs. The AppleScript dictionary supports all the important aspects of the new keystroke display, the drawing speed has been improved, Speakable Items will get installed automatically and much, much more.
Most of the application has been rewritten in order to accomodate the many feature requests sent in by users and to make it run even smoother and faster. The goal was to have a tool for demo gods and presenters that would help them focuse the audience's attention just like a laser pointer is meant to do. For example, a presenter might want to change the size of the circle during a demo, so now there is a hotkey for that.
One of the most important aspects of presenting is for an audience to be able to follow what the presenter is doing. Clicking the mouse is usually easily missed, so Mouseposé now lets you visualize the mouse clicks by drawing a red circle (or two or three depending on the number of mouse clicks) around the mouse. Of course there is a hotkey for turning this off when you don't need it.
Your presentation tool should help you keep the flow going. A smooth start/stop animation is not only raising your audience's attention, it simply looks very good. And an adjustable smooth edge ads a certain touch.
Wouldn't it be great if a program could explain itself? Mouseposé can! Listen and watch as Mouseposé takes you on a tour of itself, highlighting the most important switches and settings and showing you what it can do. Just click on 'Talkthrough', sit back and enjoy.
Of course, you can also use speech recognition to turn Mouseposé on and off via Speakable Items.
Mouseposé 2 features an extended scripting dictionary which together with the speech synthesis of Mac OS X allows you to build your own 'Talkthrough' scripts.
Purchasing a license key is now very convenient: In just a couple of minutes, you can buy a license and have the key downloaded and installed on your Mac in one go, directly from the application by clicking the Buy Now button. Your credit card information, name and license key are protected by the same encryption standards used in your browser.
Until you purchase a license, Mouseposé will work for five minutes in unlimited demo mode. Only a small window will remind you of the fact that the application is running in demo mode.
Of course, we polished the user interface a bit, moving the increased number of options to two panels (three in version 2.5), grouped by importance.