Software For Shaky Hands
Hi Fred, Probably not very interesting to most of your readers, but for those with shaky hands (aka a tremor) like me this can be very good news. I found this software application called Mousecage. Its intention is to help people with hand tremor control their computer mouse. As you will understand, using a computer mouse is often impossible for people with a hand tremor. At first, Mousecage needed some getting used to, but once I did that, it helped me enormously. For the first time in ages, I can now handle the mouse without frustration! I found Mousecage mentioned on a Dutch website, but the company that developed Mousecage is UK based (I think) and has an English website: http://www.mousecage.org .
By the way: Many people associate tremor with Parkinson’s disease, but there are a number of potential causes including ‘essential tremor’ (ET: http://www.essentialtremor.org/ ), which I suffer from. Here in Holland it is called 'familiar tremor'. It is estimated that in the United States alone, ET affects 10 million people, almost 3% of the population. Anyway, I hope this helps some fellow tremorers! ---Martin van der Donck
Thanks, Martin. My hat's off to you and people like you. PCs can be hard enough to deal with just on their own; it takes an impressive amount of spirit and determination for people to overcome physical impediments as well.
Mousecage is made by a London-based company called Tunic Software, which charges $29.95 for it and offers a free trial version.
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