gMote 1.41

Personally I like to use the keyboard to do just about anything on my computer. After all, there are keyboard shortcuts that allow me to get things done fast – sometimes faster than by using the mouse. But the simple truth of the matter is that the mouse is the most used peripheral. Not everyone knows what keyboard shortcut to use to say refresh the browser window, but everyone knows how to click the refresh icon.

I may not be much of a mouse fan, but I appreciate the merits of an application like gMote. What can this application do for you? To put it bluntly, this application will enhance the functionality your mouse provides. This application allows you to set up mouse gestures to control your PC.

Take the refresh browser window example I mentioned above. By using the keyboard, you need only press F5 or Ctrl + F5 to override the cache. By using the mouse alone, you need to click the “Reload current page” button which in Firefox is somewhere in the upper left hand corner of the window. By using the mouse and gMote, you don’t need to go looking for an icon. You need only press a hotkey combination, then draw a circle using the mouse and the browser window will refresh itself. You have to press a hotkey combination so that gMote knows you want to use its functionality – otherwise normal mouse gestures would be confused with preset mouse gestures.

That is just an example. With gMote you can assign mouse gestures to a lot of frequently performed tasks – like launching a specific application, accessing a specific website, or controlling your media player.

Code Weaver weighs in at little under 1MB, so even on a less than spectacular internet connection, it should only take a moment to get the application off the web and onto your computer. Once you do, extract the zip archive and run the gmote .EXE file. You will then be able to use gMote free of charge for as long as you want.

gMote is a free application that lets you perform a lot of tasks with a mouse gesture.

Pros

• Easy to use
• Assign mouse gestures to frequently performed tasks
• Lightweight download
• Freeware

Cons

• None that I could think of

Additional details about gMote are available here.

gMote has been reviewed by George Norman on 14 Jul 2010. Based on the user interface, features and complexity, Findmysoft has rated gMote 4 out of 5 stars, naming it Excellent