Nuforce also offers devices such as the Icon 2 integrated power amplifier for desktop users, and the USB-powered Icon U-Dac 2 headphone amplifier for laptop users.

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When you first use Pokki the service installs a Pokki icon on your desktop.

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Users can still switch to a more traditional desktop mode by clicking on an icon, but the environment lacks the start menu button offered since Windows 95.

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Employees were invited via e-mail and through fliers to click on the Brightidea icon on their computer's desktop.

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She added that another icon, for the photo gallery, was taken from a desktop wallpaper image of a sunflower that Samsung had used previously.

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That's why Windows 8 opens in the start screen, why Microsoft is working to build up a large catalog of tablet-type apps that run only in the start screen, and why the traditional desktop has been relegated to a mode you reach by clicking on an icon on the start screen.

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