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• n  (computer science) indicator consisting of a movable spot of light (an icon) on a visual display; moving it allows the user to point to commands or screen positions

• Words and images float freely across the screen or follow the cursor like schools of curious minnows.
• Yes, he sells fireworks, adorns postage stamps, blinks as a cursor on Sony PCs and appears in movies about the Dorabian Nights.
• An expansion of Universal Access, this on-or-off function reads stuff that you point to with your cursor.

• pointer

News & Articles

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• Hundreds turn out for Twilight 5k Road Race
  Eight hundred men, women and children pounded the pavement Thursday in South Portland to help stomp out cancer in the annual Twilight 5k Road Race Thursday. Click here for photos from this year's event. The race benefits the Maine Cancer Foundation, and is considered a precursor for Tri For A Cure. “I would say 99 percent of the people that will be here today have been affected by cancer in some ...
  June 14, 2013 - WMTW Portland

Quotes

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• Gordon Ramsay in Reuters
  It's not a surprise but the agreement is a pre-cursor for the project to enter FEED (front-end engineering and design), so this is definitely very encouraging for the project and its venture partners, particularly Oil Search,said Sydney-based...
• Tom Sharpe in TheChronicleHerald.ca
  Tom Sharpe, the English writer of satiric novels, complained that a word processor "tried to make me a slave" and "that bloody cursor blinking at me on the screen is awful. I mean it's blink, blink, blink. Well, screw this bastard. It's...
• Bill Casey in The Amherst Daily
  The aboiteau is just a pre-cursor things to come and if we have failures in dikes and don't have the expertise and technology to fix and replace them, then we could be in serious trouble,Casey said, adding the Bay of Fundy presents a unique...