To select an icon or group of icons or some part of a text document or image in order to perform an operation on it, such as moving it, deleting it or copying it. Highlighting is typically done by pointing to the object with the mouse and clicking the left mouse button. See Win Highlighting icons.
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- Internet Explorer 8 beta 2
- With the public release of its second beta, Microsoft said it intends for the Internet Explorer 8 browser to be more customer-oriented than previous versions of its browser. Our initial impression of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is positive: we think Microsoft has not only caught up with Opera, Safari,...
- Product reviews 2008-08-27
- 2012 Olympics: Give Us Webcams On the Wall
- The organizers of the Olympics really blew it this time. Not showing the unbelievable comeback of Michael Phelps in the 100-meter butterfly race, which he won by one-hundredth of a second, is evidence of cowardice. And a total lack of commercial savvy, in the digital age. Can...
- Blog posts 2008-08-22
- Vizio SV470XVT
- Budget flat-panel powerhouse Vizio is breaking into the lucrative realm of high-end HDTVs with its XVT line, comprised of a 50-inch plasma we detailed at CES and a pair of LCDs, including the model reviewed here, the 47-inch SV470XVT. Equipped with a lot of glossy black, a slicker menu system,...
- Product reviews 2008-08-21
- PitchEngine revs up public beta, puts the social in PR
- PitchEngine revs up public beta, puts the social in PRMaybe I'm misunderstanding.......but I don't think that "pitches" are what journalists and bloggers are looking for. Informed commentary yes; reliable information on the company's plans and policies, yes; official positions on news items involving the company, yes; pitches, no (that's...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- Sanyo Katana Eclipse - silver (Sprint)
- The Katana series of phones have changed quite a bit since the original Katana, which was nothing more than a Razr clone with its slim and wide style. Two years and a couple of Katana models later, it appears that Sanyo has decided to go in a very different design...
- Product reviews 2008-08-17
- News to know: SAP; Microsoft patches; Nvidia; iPhone
- Notable headlines: Dennis Howlett: SAP: Oracle price-gouges customers even more than we do Michael Krigsman: Business Objects Influencer Summit: Strategy to execution Larry Dignan: Microsoft plugs IE, Office in big patch haul Roland Piquepaille: No more need for...
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Microsoft to highlight app virtualization at September launch
- Last month, Microsoft officials mentioned the company was planning some kind of virtualization launch event to be held in Seattle in early September, but wouldn't say more. But now the cat is at least partially out of the virtual bag. by Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Will it be a Kindle Christmas?
- Dear Amazon: Please reveal how many Kindles you have sold. If not, analysts will be forced to guess--repeatedly. I may even have to guess too. The guessing game about Kindle sales continues and the euphoria is building Techmeme. Citi's Mark Mahaney, who in May said that the...
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Black Hat Las Vegas Day 1
- Well, this is well late, but here's my recap of Black Hat Day 1. Sorry for the delay, but I've been terribly busy finishing up preparations for my Day 2 talk. The first talk I went to see, "Pointers and Handles, A Story of Unchecked Assumptions...
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- FastCon (zip)
- FastCon is a command line replacement with a rich set of additional features: autocompletion of commands, aliases for long commands, hotkeys for executing any command, triggers fired when given text is found in output of program being monitored. Additional features: process termination, reboot/logoff/shutdown/hibernate, open/close cd tray, send administrative messages over...
- Software downloads 2008-08-07
- Google gives us the keys to insightful information
- If you are someone who can't get enough data, Google's new "Insights for Search" (which I'm sure will be renamed to simply "Google Insights" when they realize the current name is too long) is going to be a place that you want to visit. Google Insights for...
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Copying pasting blogging = trouble
- Copying pasting blogging = troubleAgreeI agree... Too many people talking about the same thing.RE: Copying pasting blogging = troubleIt drives me nuts. The amounts of comments pinged back to my blog are purely regurgitated, as if it's been automatically picked. It's just...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- Thailand halts 'Grand Theft Auto' sales after murder
- Thailand halts 'Grand Theft Auto' sales after murderRe: Thailand halts 'Grand Theft Auto' sales after murderI can't even imagine what is wrong in this kid's head. For once the kid may actually be a nutball, and his parents may have indeed raised him well.I still wouldn't blame the game,...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-04
- Potential green tech corporate role models for you to research
- There are two new resources out for those of you who crave more case-study-type information to guide your corporate green initiatives. The first is a $399 guidebook from PR News that is an online resource containing case studies about companies small and large that have rearchitected some part of their...
- Blog posts 2008-08-02
- Symantec is commanding more of your IT budget
- Symantec's strategy of selling security and storage together is apparently paying off as companies consolidate the number of vendors they use. The security and storage management software company reported strong fiscal first quarter results statement as net income more than doubled from a year ago. Symantec reported...
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- Gary McKinnon – 'world's most dangerous hacker' – to be extradited
- Gary McKinnon – 'world's most dangerous hacker' – to be extraditedPretty one sided article.It seems that you took what the defendant's lawyers had to say as gospel. There are two sides to the story. I would not expect the defendant's lawyers to do anything other then downplay what...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-30
- Green light for hacker's extradition
- Green light for hacker's extraditionUS owned server spaceWhen he hacked into our military's network's, he was trespassing on US owned server space.The EU would cry bloody murder if we had a little pasty 16 yr old hack MI6 and do what this guy did, and we didn't extradite him. book...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-30
- T-Mobile Sidekick
- It's so hard to keep a good secret these days. Just ask T-Mobile. Word of its new Sidekick model, codenamed Gekko, got out months ago and was all but confirmed when the ruthless blogosphere got hold of some internal T-Mobile documents about the upcoming model. Well, today, the wraps were...
- Product reviews 2008-07-30
- News to know: Microsoft Midori; Sub $600 PCs; Dell; Neosploit; SOA
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: More tech details emerge on Microsoft's 'Midori' What if Apple had conducted the 'Mojave Experiment'? Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Microsoft, In Search Of Itself Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The 'Mojave Experiment' - Just an exercise in guided clicking or does it...
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- The "Mojave Experiment" - Just an exercise in guided clicking or does it highlight some of the problems with Windows Vista
- The "Mojave Experiment" - Just an exercise in guided clicking or does it highlight some of the problems with Windows VistaSUV test driveIf you gave people an SUV to drive for 10 min, but they never had to park it or fill the gas tank, people would love the big...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-29
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