For this class assignment, I created MouseMiles, which is an application that runs in background and calculates the miles and feet that your mouse travelled on the screen. It displays Growl notifications on desktop with the name of the city it would reach starting from New York City. Also the number of miles and feet are displayed once you reach a city.
Requires Growl to be installed on your MacOS X (tested on MacOS 10.4.10).
Download here and DoubleClick! -MouseMiles.jar-
Open source - source code is zipped in the jar file.
Note: default scale is 1, which means 1 inch = 60 pixels. If you want to reach San Francisco faster, run the application on your terminal as:
java -jar mousemiles.jar 10000
The number in the end sets the scale, which makes it 10000 inches = 60 pixels.
sinan, this is such an awesome app.