{"id":177,"date":"2009-01-25T14:11:58","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T21:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/?p=177"},"modified":"2009-01-25T14:11:58","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T21:11:58","slug":"cursed-cursor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"cursed cursor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-180\" title=\"cursor\" src=\"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/cursor.jpg\" alt=\"cursor\" width=\"80\" height=\"140\" \/>Okay, so one of the MANY things Apple got right is the way the mouse cursor automatically disappears whenever you start typing. Makes sense, doesn&#8217; t it. I mean, why the hell would you want the stupid cursor to BLOCK YOUR VIEW of what you&#8217;re typing? Which is exactly what I&#8217;ve been dealing with, here in XP land. I know the wizards at M$ made this an option in the Mouse control panel, but that &#8220;feature&#8221; only works (of course) in M$ apps. In other words, if you&#8217;re working in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankbeaton.com\/2006\/02\/26\/final-draft-7-sucks-ass\/\">Final Draft<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/openoffice.org\">OpenOffice<\/a> (as I do, mostly), then you&#8217;re shit outta luck.<\/p>\n<p>Until now. I searched and searched, and finally found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wxftools.com\/deskangel\/deskangel.html\">Desk Angel<\/a>, an amazing and yes, FREE little wonder of a utility that throws this life-altering feature in as an afterthought (!), along with a very intuitive, OSX-style screen grab utility and many others. These two are the only features I need and use and I am eternally grateful for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wxftools.com\/deskangel\/deskangel.html\">William<\/a> for finally making it true. And free. Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so one of the MANY things Apple got right is the way the mouse cursor automatically disappears whenever you start typing. Makes sense, doesn&#8217; t it. I mean, why the hell would you want the stupid cursor to BLOCK YOUR VIEW of what you&#8217;re typing? Which is exactly what I&#8217;ve been dealing with, here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[41,44,65,66,93,152,158,162],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-writing","tag-cursor","tag-desk-angel","tag-hide-cursor","tag-hide-cursor-when-typing","tag-mouse","tag-utility","tag-windows","tag-xp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorbornia.com\/word\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}