For all the advances in computing and interfaces in roughly the last sixty years, the lowly cursor remains a tiny, often hard-to-spot object moved around a screen by a pointing device, like a mouse, ...

The report that real, Mac-style cursor support is coming to the iPad is sure to make a lot of people upset. Some will argue that the purity of the iPad will be ruined by the introduction of Mac-style ...

Without a cursor, your Mac would be pretty hard to use. In fact, it would be all but impossible to use, save for a few keyboard shortcuts. The cursor is what makes it so easy to navigate around your ...

A disappearing cursor or mouse pointer can be a frustrating time-waster. The good news is that while there are several reasons why you might not be able to find your cursor, there are also easy ways ...

Update: Federighi is also interviewed on the same topic in a special episode of the AppStories podcast. Creating the iPadOS cursor without compromising the touch-first nature of the iPad was no easy ...

Even though Apple did not invent the mouse pointer, history has cemented its place in dragging it out of obscurity and into mainstream use. Its everyday utility, pioneered at SRI and Xerox Parc and ...

You ever do that thing where you have to move your mouse around, jiggling the little thing just to find the dang cursor? I do it all the time these days, with my smaller screen Macbook Air and the Mac ...

December 12, 2014 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Not a fan of your Mac's default text cursor blink rate? MacIssues points out that it's super easy to change ...

Q: Sometimes the cursor disappears from the screen of my five-year-old MacBook Air laptop. If I open and close the "lid" of the laptop, the cursor eventually reappears. What's wrong? Does it indicate ...

An Apple employee on Tuesday explained how mouse cursors interact with the new MacBook Pro's camera "notch," and in doing so answered a nagging question about the laptop's unique design. Shortly after ...

Dock responds to AppleScript In response to our coverage last week on ways to kill the Dock in order to remove the puff of smoke drawing artifacts, we noted that there are more than a few ways to skin ...