In the early 90s, we worked on these large black and white Sun monitors with X-Windows.  The problem was that with monochrome screens, we’d lose our cursor if we glanced away for a second.  The solution was xeyes: a charming set of eyes that followed your cursor around.

When I moved into Microsoft development, I created a quick port of xeyes to Windows called WinEyes.  Now with the prevalence of multiple monitors, it is again pretty easy to lose your cursor.  So I dusted off my old WInEyes, made some updates to make it really close in appearance to xeyes, and released it as open source under GPL.

So if you would like a second pair of eyes always reviewing your work and letting you know where your cursor is, download WinEyes at http://wineyes.sourceforge.net.