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Try An Animated Mouse Cursor

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Mouse cursors are useful and functional as they help you get an idea about where you are supposed to type. They usually look so unobtrusive, that we hardly notice them. The important thing is that they work great for us, and show where typing should take place. I hardly even noticed my mouse cursor until the day that I had to use another computer. It was my colleague’s and it had a strange animated mouse cursor in the form of Read More

Jeffrey Deaver’s Manhattan Is My Beat, A Review

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Manhattan is My Beat was written early in Jeffrey Deaver’s career in 1988 and then revised in 2000. Two other works he wrote in 1988 have not been re-released and are difficult to find. He was thirty-eight when these were written. Before that he worked as a corporate (not criminal) attorney. Best known for his serious Lincoln Rhyme books about a quadriplegic detective, this book pays homage to old movies and young fanciful thinking. His main character, twenty something Rune, Read More