Mouse Path: It Knows Everything About You. And Your Mouse.

There are a lot of Mac apps that can track almost every little piece of your life: your finances, your tasks, your music, your dog, your girlfriend. Ok, maybe not the last one, though I’m sure someone’s thinking about it. But anyway, from today on you’ll be able to track what your fingers have done on your MacBook’s trackpad.

Anatoly Zenkov (art director and designer from Moscow) has developed MousePath, a simple .jar application that records your mouse / trackpad movements and displays them on a blank sheet as black lines and dots. Lines are the actual movements, dots are the moments of inactivity.

Isn’t this genius? Below there’s my path of 50 minutes of work today.

MousePath

MousePath

You can download the app here. Thanks to Door Sixteen for the heads up.

PositionApp: Keep Track of the Success of Your Apps

Have you ever wanted to know everything about all the App Stores out there? Which Twitter app sells the most in Italy, which note taking software is popular in Japan..that’s very likely if you’re a developer and you’d like to know how your app is going internationally, or if you’re a blogger and you’re always looking for new stuff. There are many applications for iPhone that let you discover new apps, like App Popular and App Saurus (I reviewed both of them here and here), but what about tracking existing applications? Wouldn’t it be great to see what kind of software sells well in Asia, or how a price change affected the charting position of an app?

Today I’ll talk about PositionApp, a new app for iPhone that lets you do this and so much more.

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Instapaper Greystyled

Do you remember Instapaper Threestyled? It was that great userscript by @elasticthreads I once talked about here. Well, since Marco Arment updated Instapaper’s web interface some weeks ago, that update broke the userstyle.

Fortunately, elasticthreads has been working on a completely new style for Instapaper, which is perfect both for browsers (in my case, Safari) and a Fluid app. It’s called Instapaper Greystyled, and you can download it here. (Fluid version)

Instapaper Greystyled

Instapaper Greystyled

Be sure to have Greasekit installed or the userstyle won’t work.

DoubleStory: Mailroom, Gmail at your Fingers. Review and Giveaway.

Like Mailplane for the Mac, Mailroom alleviates some of the pain of using a Gmail account on the iPhone or iPod Touch. Using a long, complex password I created in 1Password, it’s a pain in the butt to manually log into Gmail with my credentials each time. Especially when you have multiple accounts. While 1Password does make an iPhone app (that I do have), it’s still not a simple process to log in.

Mailroom allows me to save all of my Gmail credentials in the app, but what makes that different from Apple’s own mail? Federico and I have decided to team up for this review, so you’re going to get a little something special today - a MacStories double team if you will.

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Arq Winners Announced

Thanks everyone who entered the Arq giveaway. Also, I’d like to thank Haystack Software for the 10 licenses he gave to MacStories.

Here are the names of the winners:

Justin

Keir

CannonGod

Shadowchaser

Pattulus

Fabio

Bruna

Mark Hewitt

SuperGlide

jaryre

You’ll receive the theme in your inbox in a few hours.

Cheers!