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A throbber animation like that seen on many websites when a blocking action is being performed in the background. A throbber, also known as a loading icon, is an animated graphical control element used to show that a computer program is performing an action in the background (such as downloading content, conducting intensive calculations or communicating with an external device).
A pie menu. In user interface design, a pie menu or radial menu is a circular context menu where selection depends on direction. It is a graphical control element.A pie menu is made of several "pie slices" around an inactive center and works best with stylus input, and well with a mouse.
The scroll wheel on a mouse has been invented multiple times by different people unaware of the others' work. Other scrolling controls on a mouse, and the use of a wheel for scrolling both precede the combination of wheel and mouse. The earliest known example of the former is the Mighty Mouse prototype developed jointly by NTT, Japan and ETH Zürich, Switzer
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A pointing stick (or trackpoint, also referred to generically as a nub or nipple) is a small analog stick used as a pointing device typically mounted centrally in a computer keyboard. Like other pointing devices such as mice , touchpads or trackballs , operating system software translates manipulation of the device into movements of the pointer ...
Little Man Computer simulator. The Little Man Computer (LMC) is an instructional model of a computer, created by Dr. Stuart Madnick in 1965. [1] The LMC is generally used to teach students, because it models a simple von Neumann architecture computer—which has all of the basic features of a modern computer.
Here is an account of my experience with the Xumo box, plus some tips for making the switch from set-top box to Xumo, a breakdown of pros and cons, and the cost of Xumo versus the traditional ...
Spinning Wait Cursor as seen in OS X El Capitan. The spinning pinwheel is a type of progress indicator and a variation of the mouse pointer used in Apple's macOS to indicate that an application is busy.