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, ...

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 ...

If you keep losing your mouse pointer while you work at your Mac, Apple has a handy option in macOS Monterey to increase your cursor size to make it easier to find. Chances are, if you've used macOS ...

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 ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

December 12, 2012 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Mac: One of the minor annoyances for some people on a MacBook is that you can't customize the mouse ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nobody likes to see the beach ball (aka pinwheel, aka the spinning pizza, aka spinning wait cursor) in OS X, but have you ever wondered why you see different ones from time to time? Or, when things ...

Apple recently introduced a new cursor experience in iPadOS — one that software engineering chief Craig Federighi says was by necessity a combination of how users interface with the Mac, and the Apple ...

The Mac’s cursor (Apple actually calls it a pointer) is designed with a white outline and black fill. It’s a good combination, making it easy to spot no matter what is on screen. But man, is it boring ...