Quckstart:

Press and hold f1. Move mouse around. Watch as your bidding is done.

The Longer Explanation:

FlyGesture is an application that sits in the background and waits for you to call on it. And when you do, FlyGesture executes an action based on the movements of your mouse through a series of "guides." (These guides are just little nifty circles that change color as you move your mouse through them, but they track your mouse movements to figure out what command to execute.)

A gesture's action(s) can be setup to launch an application, type some text, run your automator action, or even execute custom AppleScript. You decide. FlyGesture comes with multiple actions which you can mix, match, and rearrange to create your own workflows.

And after a bit of use, you'll find that you really don't need to pay attention to the gestures you're making—-muscle memory starts to take over for you. This is where the power of mouse gestures really shines. You don't even think about what you want to do because it just happens at the flick of a mouse--it's effortless.

By default, FlyGesture comes with a set of common commands such as "Close Window," "New Window," "Hide All Applications," "Open iTunes," "iTunes Next Song," "New Mail Message," etc.

You will probably want to add your own gestures and actions, which you can do by bringing up the catalog window (press Command-T or choose it from the Window menu) and clicking the "+" button. Single click your mouse in the middle of the gesture window and move your mouse through the guides you want to define your gesture with.

If you don't like F1 as the hot key, you can change it to something a bit more useful in the Preferences. You may also change the color of the gesture line, or turn it off completely.

Create as many gestures as you want- an infinite number of guide combinations are available. Make a gesture to open all of your favorite applications at once. Or have it save the current window and put the computer to sleep. Or even open four different Web pages, start a new mail message, copy a file in the Finder to a remote server and display a dialog box saying "My work here is done."

As with any application from Flying Meat, we are eager to hear your comments and suggestions about FlyGesture. If you want to share them send an email to flygesture@flyingmeat.com



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