iPointer

Hold a key, get a laser pointer.
Release, it's gone. That simple.

Requires macOS 13.0 or later. ⚠ Read before first launch

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Attention Is All You Need.pdf

Attention Is All You Need

Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan N. Gomez, Lukasz Kaiser, Illia Polosukhin

Abstract

The dominant sequence transduction models are based on complex recurrent or convolutional neural networks that include an encoder and a decoder. The best performing models also connect the encoder and decoder through an attention mechanism. We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely. Experiments on two machine translation tasks show these models to be superior in quality while being more parallelizable and requiring significantly less time to train.

Hold ⌥ Option to activate

Press and hold ⌥ Option then move your mouse to try it
Trigger key is customizable in the app's settings

How it works

1iPointer lives in your menu bar. No dock icon, no clutter.
2Hold ⌥ Option — a laser pointer appears at your cursor with a smooth trailing glow.
3Release the key — it vanishes instantly. Or double-tap to lock it on.

Two modes

Laser Pointer

Point at things during screen sharing. A glowing dot follows your cursor with a fading comet tail.

Signing Pen

Draw on screen by holding click. Annotate while reading papers together. Release the hotkey to clear.

Features

→Lock mode — double-tap the trigger key to keep the pointer active hands-free. Double-tap again to dismiss.
→Screen magnifier — scroll while the pointer is active to freeze and zoom into an area. Use the laser pointer inside the magnified view to highlight details.
→Customizable trigger keys, colors, stroke width, and glow size.
→Multi-display support. Zero background CPU when idle.
→Lightweight — under 2 MB, no dependencies.