Selecting a tile brings you into a "hub" containing integrated experiences for different features.
So here are over 50 names for a billhook, but none for, say, a tile or malt.
On the other side of the wall, there was the noise of furniture scraping across a tile floor.
She clicks on a tile and goes into an immersive weather application.
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It adds new gestures: you swipe to the left to close a tile and swipe to the right to save a tile to read later.
Create a tile of a friend, and the user gains a readable, up-to-date view of a friend's latest pictures and posts, just by glancing at Start.
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It also works identically: pressing a tile for a tic or two brings the ability to choose small, medium or wide versions using the appropriate arrow.
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In Windows 8, you can revert to the Windows desktop experience via a tile, and you can further customize the interface with third-party apps which revive the Start experience and return Windows 8 to a 7-like environment.
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The one-acre-plus plot of land hosts a guest house, a pool, a mosaic tile infinity spa and a subterranean garage with two hydraulic car lifts.
What's more, he says, seasoned Scrabble players know there is an important difference between the value written on a Scrabble tile and that tile's real value when played in a game, a notion he calls "equity value".
By culling eight favorite genres from about 100, users can build a custom tile layout that, when activated, hunts down a station playing the appropriate tune -- be it in Los Angeles, New York or even Iceland.
The sarcophagus, along with a Roman tile kiln, Saxon grave goods and pottery unearthed at the site, sheds light on a "hidden" two hundred year period in the history of the capital, the museum said.
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So a blank tile or an S have an equity value that far outstrips their face value because they can easily earn a player so many points.
With a 13.3-inch diagonal widescreen display, the laptop has a starting weight of just three pounds4, measures about one inch thin and features a premium raised tile keyboard and a long battery life rating.
The home has 397 windows and a red tile inscribed with Wright's initials cemented above the front doorbell.
The home has 397 windows and a red tile inscribed with Mr. Wright's initials cemented above the front doorbell.
Incoming call notifications and a Live Tile will notify you of missed conversations.
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Nearby are handicraft shops, a handful of galleries and a petite tile-lined grocer who has survived the neighbourhood's many changes over the years.
Slow-motion replays suggested that the object might have been a heat-resistant tile protecting a compartment where the shuttle's drag chute is stored.
The plants and dirt will capture rainfall and shield the house from heat, rather than absorbing it like an asphalt shingle or a clay tile.
His father owned a roofing tile factory and dabbled in politics.
Neighbors said Mr. Holmes spent at least some of his childhood in a two-story, cream-colored house with a Spanish tile roof in an upper-middle-class San Diego neighborhood.
Rather than create a native app the BBC plans to allow a web-based version of iPlayer to be accessed via a live tile - or square icon - on the Windows Phone home screen.
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Available initially for iPad, the Nick App features a moveable tile layout that can be swiped in any direction, promoting discovery and exploration and offering kids instant and on-demand access to more than 1, 000 pieces of Nickelodeon-themed content.
More importantly, the software in the claimed leak suggests the company will bring a trace of Sense UI style to the home screen, rather than having to relegate it to the HTC Hub: a live tile would bring the oversized clock and weather that One owners know so well.
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He pointed to a pile of bricks and tile in a corner where two high walls met.
On WP7 there was essentially just one size of tile, with the occasional app having a double width tile.
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Aside from ultra-lux furnishings, a bounty of Jacuzzis and enough flat-screen LCD panels to tile a roof, Connor says "Solemates" also lets guests keep fit in style.
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