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 ...

The humble mouse pointer has barely changed in decades. It moves, clicks, selects, drags, and occasionally turns into a spinning wheel of frustration. Google now wants to turn that tiny arrow into one ...

So many ways to control an iPad. Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac The new mouse and trackpad support coming in iPadOS 13.4 is just fantastic. And, in typical Apple fashion, it just works as soon as ...

Apple spent time reinventing the mouse pointer to make it perfect for iPad, revealed Craig Federighi, the company’s senior vice president of software engineering, in a new interview. Its brand-new ...

Learn how to tweak your cursor and pointer in Windows 10 so they’re easier to see and find. Sometimes you can lose track of your text cursor and mouse pointer in Windows 10–they can disappear for a ...

The screen pointer that appears when text can be highlighted or edited. The text cursor is a vertical line (|). Also called a "caret," "i-cursor" or "I-beam," it may or may not blink. If the cursor is ...