15. An information storage medium comprising: an ordered list of information items having descriptions; at least one respective helper character corresponding with and representative of a portion of a description of an item in the ordered list being displayed on a display, wherein displaying of the helper character is responsive to continued user actuation of a scroller, wherein the helper character is displayed in a size which is larger than a size of the descriptions, and wherein a change in the size is made based on a scrolling speed that is responsive to the continued user actuation; and control software for controlling a rendering of a specific one of the helper characters during the actuation of the scroller of the corresponding one of the items.
15. An information storage medium comprising: an ordered list of information items having descriptions; at least one respective helper character corresponding with and representative of a portion of a description of an item in the ordered list being displayed on a display, wherein displaying of the helper character is responsive to continued user actuation of a scroller, wherein the helper character is displayed in a size which is larger than a size of the descriptions, and wherein a change in the size is made based on a scrolling speed that is responsive to the continued user actuation; and control software for controlling a rendering of a specific one of the helper characters during the actuation of the scroller of the corresponding one of the items. 16. The information storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the ordered list comprises at least one a sequence of alpha-numeric characters, a sequence of pictographs, a sequence of images, a sequence of sounds.