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, ...

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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 ...

Press Command + Shift + 5 to open the Screenshot app or screenshot utility. This will bring up a toolbar at the bottom of your screen. You can now capture your full-screen screenshot, and the mouse ...

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 ...

The Mac operating system that we use today was introduced 21 years ago. Whether you’ve been using the Mac longer than that or just bought your first M1 MacBook, macOS is a vast operating system, and ...

Not a fan of your Mac's default text cursor blink rate? MacIssues points out that it's super easy to change with a couple of Terminal commands. If you're running OS X 10.8 or earlier, you need just ...

Mac: One of the minor annoyances for some people on a MacBook is that you can't customize the mouse acceleration settings by device. Acceleration is great for trackpads, but often it's awkward with a ...

My High Sierra Mac crashed earlier while using Chrome to browse NotAlwaysRight. It will only start in safe mode now, which is a problem for another day, but a really annoying issue is that the mouse ...