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David Lawrence: Alright the Geek Speak Phrase for this hour is cursor. Cursor you cursor you brought her. Sorry that*s an old joke but it*s a good one. This portion of the show is brought to you by Mac OS X Unwired by Tom Negrino and Dori Smith a complete guide to Wireless Information for Mac users. If you think you going wireless is a connection to the Internet or networking computers together this pick will show you of what Mac OS X is capable of doing. Here*s the website Macosxunwired.com also we are brought to you by the amazing Safety Laser Flare. The battery operated device that replaces traditional flares. The rescue laser flare is visible upto 20 miles away at night and 3 miles during the day. It*s even visible under water. So go to safetylaser.com and keep yourselves safe till you get the separated from society.

Alright cursor what is curse. Well it*s first for all it is spelled cursor. And a cursor is that moving marker on a screen that indicates where you are. Indicates the position and hardly enough this is not a new word. According to Wikipedia it*s been a word that*s we have been using from the 1500s. It*s kind of cool. Now in terms of interfaces if you look at any computer screen normally you will see a little arrow on the screen and that indicates where your position is on the screen. So as you do something at that position whatever is beneath the cursor will be effected if you happen to be over a button you click on it. If you happen to be on a word and you click twice you will highlight the whole word. If you are between two letters in a Word Document or two numbers on an Excel spreadsheet and you move the cursor to between those two numbers and the cursor is actually shaped like an I-beam and you click well then you place a flashing bar between those two and you can start typing. The cursor should be should be left alone.

This is just little, little tip from your old Uncle David to you. Leave the cursor alone. Resist the urge given the comet cursors of the world and the Spyware associated with them. Resist the urge to make your cursor into a flower or a banana or a gun, or a set of lips or Barbie*s lipstick. Stay away from the themes and stuff, especially the ones that you get for free from websites that just seem to have a lot of stuff going on. The reason that they are free is they not only install that new cursor for you in that part of that new theme but they also install a whole bunch of Adware. So leave the cursor alone. Cursor that is this hours* Geek Speak and if you want to review what you have just heard about the cursor and if you sort of tuned in just moments ago you can always go and download the audio for this or any other hour of the show from our website onlinetonight.com and click on the link that says how do we do that and you will see exactly how it*s done. We have used bitpass for our micro payments. It*s very inexpensive. It is 25 cents for the hour, 50 cents for the show, 7 bucks for a monthly pass or $60 for a year long pass and we are thinking of adding a pod cast. It is a sort of reviews what we have done for the week on the shows. Maybe we will do that so that you know what you are getting into. Alright so there you go that is this hours* Geek Speak Cursor on Online Tonight.

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