The program can be explored by keyboard commands or by using a mouse pointing device, which makes it simple enough for young children to operate alone.
Windows controls a personal computer with the aid of a mouse pointing device.
Users are able to view several programs simultaneously and move between them by clicking a "mouse" pointing device.
For example, a card on Beethoven might have several buttons that, when clicked with the mouse pointing device, play short selections of the composer's works.
The only problem - I often come home and find the mouse pointing to the liquor cabinet!
The new computers will also permit users to control a computer with a mouse pointing device.
The Metaphor computer work station has a high-resolution graphics display and uses a mouse pointing device.
With either system, users execute commands and create files by selecting graphical icons with a mouse pointing device.
The Star permitted a computer user to use a mouse pointing device to select from a menu of choices.
Through them Mr. Jobs popularized the graphical user interface, which, based on a mouse pointing device, would become the standard way to control computers.