The primary differences are changes that make sense when a mouse pointer and a larger screen area are available.

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The "Blister in the Sun" Award for best packaging to highlght an innovative product goes to the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 , itself an award-worthy mashup of tilt-wheel notebook mouse, presentation remote and laser pointer.

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The shift key pans a camera down, and the mouse controls a laser pointer.

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Consider the status quo: To operate computers, most people peck away at keyboards and use a mouse to scoot a digital pointer across the screen.

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Full mouse support: left and right clicks, dragging, scrolling, precision pointer movement.

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Perhaps you should print these out and post them where they will be most visible when your mouse pointer is hovering over the "send" button.

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The one that has our tinkering fingers itching most, puts a launcher and apps right at your finger tips... well, mouse pointer.

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Many have described the user interfaces of products such as the iPhone and Surface as ushering in the post-WIMP (windows-icon-mouse-pointer) era.

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MotionTools and the Air Mouse app enable a presenter to turn their computer's cursor into a highlighter, laser pointer or pen.

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