Can you turn off the Yellow and Black cursor pop ups?

Since 10.4.x I have noticed that these little pop ups that you get when the cursor is over something that has info are more frequent and are getting in the way. I love the idea but, they either don't pop up when I need them, don't stay up long enough to read large areas of text, or get in the way of moving a URL to a menu bar of my browser and I have to wait for it to go away before the address will copy.
I think I saw something somewhere about this but can't remember. It there a way to turn these off?
TIA

Hi
The term I think you're looking for is "tooltips". It seems that there is no obvious way of universally turning them off. An application's developer decides how they are implemented for the indiviual application. I notice that in Opera, my browser of choice, I can just turn them off in the preferences. The same does not apply for Safari and, by the looks of it, most Apple applications including the Finder. See the discussion Disabling "tooltips" in Safari...... for a little more info.
Matthew Whiting

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