These actions can occur in the background while the user is seeing what appears to be a normal, harmless web page.
From then on, any time the user clicks on a Web site, program or database that requires its own user ID and password, the software issues the proper credentials, all in the background, without the user having to lift a finger or remember a word.
Web Workers, for instance, is an emerging system for isolating a browser's individual tasks into separate "threads, " making it easier for a browser-based program to perform a computationally intensive task such as photo-editing in a background tab while the user is attending to something else, like e-mail, in the foreground.
Reordering the Season Pass priority list should happen seamlessly in the background instead of locking the user out for an indeterminate period of time.
Photos from any of these locations can be enjoyed in slideshow mode simultaneously with music stored on the device or streamed from the user's PC in the background.
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For example, a floating windows user could monitor a stock ticker in a background window while working on a report in the foreground.
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The Cleaner scans files, drives or directories as specified by the user, though it does not operate in the background to automatically check as the more expensive programs from Symantec and Network Associates do.
If more horsepower is needed, then the user can quickly switch into the main operating system, which Cloud continues to load in the background.
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With Live Image Control, real time adjustments to motion control, brightness control, Active D-Lighting and background focus are seen on the LCD screen or the electronic viewfinder prior to capture to help ensure the user's creative vision is fulfilled.
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The first shows a user's hands on a traditional hardware keyboard projected in an on-screen representation (as background, Apple mentions the ergonomic strain of looking down to check your hand placement, so perhaps that's the thinking behind this one).
Plenty of measures can tell you something about the user's state of mind: keystrokes, how many windows are open and their content, whether the user is scrolling, the time of day, the contents of a desktop calendar even background noises from a microphone and visual information from a camera.
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