Prices, even the dealers' true cost, are now laid bare with the click of a mouse on sites like Kelley's Blue Book and Microsoft's CarPoint.

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Users can move their mouse over the image and click on the phone's buttons.

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Selecting and cropping text, images or other content on the Galaxy Note II with the S Pen is very similar to a traditional "click-mouse" experience.

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Imagine downloading a software upgrade for your cable box from the Internet or upgrading your printer with a mouse click (for more on PLDs click here).

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These days we can avoid long waits in line, on hold and get the exact flight or room we want with a mouse click or two.

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You can click on them with your mouse or finger, of course, but you can also use the left, right and Enter keys to select the one you want.

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It has been said over centuries that rumour gets half way round the world before truth can put its shoes on - and that was way before the internet, and the ability to send rumour sprinting at the click of a mouse.

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Additionally, sites like Wired.com, PerezHilton, Technorati, and the HuffingtonPost use Javascript to look at what visitors do on their pages, including where they click, where their mouse moves, and what text they copy and paste, a practice not mentioned by Wired, for one, in its privacy policy.

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Conversely, on foreign French-speaking media and social media, estimates will, in the space of one mouse click, start filtering out from 6.30 p.m. onwards, when those in the know get initial voting trends, from the first 100 ballot papers counted from other polling stations that closed at 6 p.m.

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