mouse ahead vi.
Point-and-click analog of `type ahead'.
To manipulate a computer's pointing device (almost always a mouse
in this usage, but not necessarily) and its selection or command
buttons before a computer program is ready to accept such input, in
anticipation of the program accepting the input. Handling this
properly is rare, but it can help make a WIMP environment much
more usable, assuming the users are familiar with the behavior of
the user interface.
Point-and-click analog of `type ahead'.
To manipulate a computer's pointing device (almost always a mouse
in this usage, but not necessarily) and its selection or command
buttons before a computer program is ready to accept such input, in
anticipation of the program accepting the input. Handling this
properly is rare, but it can help make a WIMP environment much
more usable, assuming the users are familiar with the behavior of
the user interface.
Related:
- mouse ahead vi.
Point-and-click analog of `type ahead'.
To manipulate a computer's pointing device (almost... - for the rest of us adj.
[from the Mac slogan "The computer
for the rest of us"] 1.
Used to describe a spiffy product whose affordability... - for the rest of us: [from the Mac slogan "The computer for the
rest of us"] adj.
1. Used to describe a {spiffy} product whose affordability... - MOUSE
Computer input device, named by some scientists at Xerox when they
were pissed out of their brains.
They also labelled the computer's display screen... - gun vt.
[ITS, now rare: from the :GUN command]
To forcibly terminate a program or job (computer,
not career). "Some idiot left a background process... - bagbiter: /bag'bi:t-*r/ n. 1. Something, such as a program or a
computer,
that fails to work, or works in a remarkably clumsy... - WIMP environment n.
[acronym: `Window, Icon, Menu,
Pointing device (or Pull-down menu)'] A graphical... - WIMP environment: n. [acronym: `Window, Icon, Menu,
Pointing device (or Pull-down menu)'] A graphical... - point-and-drool interface: n. Parody of the techspeak term
`point-and-shoot interface',
describing a windows, icons, and mouse-based interface...
From the same category:
- fragile adj.
Syn brittle... - shovelware /shuh'v*l-weir`/ n.
1. Extra software dumped onto
a CD-ROM or tape to fill up the remaining space on the medium after
the software distribution it's intended to carry,
but not ... - NP- /N-P/ pref.
Extremely. Used to modify adjectives
describing a level or quality of difficulty;
the connotation is often `more so than it should... - GNU /gnoo/, not /noo/
1. [acronym: `GNU's Not
Unix!',
see recursive acronym] A Unix-workalike development... - fry
1. vi. To fail. Said especially of smoke-producing
hardware failures.
More generally, to become non-working. Usage: never...
