MouseCount BY KITTYFEET MEDIA

V 1.2
5/12/00
http://www.kittyfeet.com/mousecount.htm

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BOX 421805 
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MouseCount: Utility for counting how many times us computer user click our mouse 
in a given session/day/week/month/year. 


Copyright 1999, 2000 Kittyfeet Media. 
Copyright Michael W. Dean .


(FOR WINDOWS 95, 98, 2000 & NT. 
Mac and Linux versions are coming soon. Send e-mail to 
be alerted: 
mousecount@kittyfeet.com )


COST: This program is shareware with no nag screen for registration. The MouseCount name is a trademark of the Kittyfeet Corporation.=
INSPIRATION: I am on the computer too damn many hours a day--between all that I do: 
making a living as a copywriter for a popular Internet portal destination, doing freelance 
writing, Web design, proofreading, and working on three novels concurrently. I also 
compose and edit music on the computer, administer several Web sites, author 
multimedia content, do Photoshop manipulations of my digital photography and send a 
lot of e-mail. I got to wondering, how many times a day/week/year do I feel the brittle 
click of the mouse? 

Sometimes I end up feeling like a lab rat, pushing a lever for my issue, grasping at 
drowning straws for a snip of the infinite. The work is never done, and no matter how 
much I do, I must click and click and click and click and more every day. I love 
computers; they are a nifty mixture of science and voodoo, but I am a little too hooked. 
The clicking hurts my hands, reduces my sociability and keeps me out of the day.


LICENSE: Shareware. Process is patent pending.Code Copyright  2000 Kittyfeet Media. Box 421805 San Francisco, CA 94142. License is only personal, not for bundling. Contact 
us for group or bundling rights. No reverse engineering or de-compiling. We own it, bub. 
Play fair. 

THIS PROGRAM IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. 
IN NO EVENT WILL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
DAMAGES RESULTING FROM THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

USES: For showing how hooked we are into these damn machines, and to encourage us to 
get out into the world. I love computers, but get sick of visiting friends and looking at 
the back of their necks. MouseCount is also useful in repetitive stress studies and for 
demographic considerations. 

The exportable, tab-delimited statistic files will be available in the directory "Program 
Files\MouseCount" every time the date changes. There are three different files (day.txt, 
month.txt and year.txt).

Someone with too much time on their hands could organize contests for highest clicks per 
day; or conversely, lowest clicks to accomplish useful tasks. 

A truly perverse computer professional could use it to bill clients on a per-click basis. 


INSTALLATION: Just unzip to /install and double click. The shortcut icon can be deleted. 
You access MouseCount through the mouse icon added to the system tray. Hide by clicking 
"hide MouseCount".

VERSION INFO: v1.1 uses a different method for counting, thus avoiding a rare and
minor conflict of v1.0. 

HISTORY: I searched all over the Web for a utility that would do the simplest of 
operations: counting mouse clicks. To the best of my knowledge, there were none. One OS 
used to contain a utility for measuring how *far* you rolled your mouse. I figure maybe 
someone considered counting mouse clicks and discarded the idea. Measuring distance 
feels like progress, whereas counting clicks seems like admitting an addiction. And the 
idea of software companies is to keep you *on* the computer, not let you know when and 
why you might need to take a break. 

I needed a break. So over New Year's weekend, when everyone else was worrying about 
the impending end of the computer world, I went camping. I took a yellow legal pad and 
a #2 pencil and wrote this. 

When I got home, I contacted  Austrian programmer Helmut Vogler <hvogler@aon.at> to help design this cool app to encourage people to get off the
> computer and out into the sunshine. 
>--Michael W. Dean 

> 