Homer's crisscrossed tape led to a fabric glove he sewed with crisscrosses of ribbon down each finger.
Even highlighting is easier and looks better in iBooks 2: It works in several colors, and rather than turning on highlighting first, readers simply hold down a finger and start dragging that finger along text to highlight.
There are a couple of related key features here: first we have the zoom bar in the album app -- you hold down your finger to prompt the bar, and then you can zoom in and out with your vertical scrolling action.
If you want, you can hold your finger down on the Zoom key and tilt the phone forward to zoom in on a page.
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For starters, the Android version offers two keyboard options -- a simple QWERTY-only and one with a space bar -- that can be toggled on or off with a two finger swipe down.
During this exam, a flexible tube containing a small transducer about the size of your index finger is guided down your throat.
With budget negotiations breaking down into public bickering and finger-pointing, the clock is ticking toward a shutdown of the federal government at midnight.
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The dimmer has a unique multi-touch capacitive interface that allows the light to be turned on or off by sliding a finger up or down on the glass switch front.
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Jewelry designer Jennifer Fisher, a Southern California transplant to New York, said that a sleek down parka from the brand Finger in the Nose has become a classic in her two kids' closets, and in her gift-giving repertoire.
For example, rotating with two fingers turns the volume up or down, and a single-finger swipe changes channels.
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Outside of the lightest of swipes that capacitive is well known for supporting, this is basically the perfect touchscreen experience. 10-finger multitouch, sensing and processing of multi-finger gestures, and simulated pressure sensitivity based on how much of a finger has been pressed down: all of these work brilliantly.
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By visiting the website, people could choose which reward they wanted and then use their finger to swipe up and down on their touchscreen phone to move the paddle.
His little brother, Burris, stood in the driveway with a finger in one of his ears, peering down the barrel of a cap pistol while he pulled the trigger repeatedly.
His mother Jamie says she noticed her son was having problems in preschool, such as "freaking out" when his teachers put his hands in finger paint or when he'd lie down in the corner.
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Bullard sat his team-mates down, stood in the middle of them, and proceeded to wag his finger at them as the Hull players laughed and cheered.
Given the varying width of real guitar strings, it's much easier to tell what frets we're pressing (and which strings we're finger-picking) on a real instrument without having to look down.
Apple's implementation would slim things down by either having electrodes share duties, both driving the display and taking finger input, or stuffing two electrodes into each pixel to accomplish the same goal.
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All-rounder James Hopes (hamstring) is the latest player to return home from India, with the Aussies now down to third-choice wicketkeeper, Graham Manou, after Tim Paine broke a finger.
The Kin Spot is located at the bottom center of every screen, and users need only use their finger to tap and drag photos, videos, links and other media down to the Spot to begin sharing them with friends.
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Simply swipe a finger through the air sideways and you can toggle from screen to screen, or up and down to scroll through something you're reading.
In their letter to President Sarkozy, laying down the priorities for the Cannes G20 Summit, David Cameron and five other heads of state put their finger on the problem: they said that confidence of citizens, businesses and markets had been damaged by a "lack of visible political will".
Andy Grove noticed an occasional tremor in the index finger of his right hand. it was 1999, when Grove was 63 and had just stepped down as the chief executive of chipmaker Intel.
Andy Grove noticed an occasional tremor in the index finger of his right hand. it was 1999, when Grove was 63 and had just stepped down as the chief executive of chipmaker Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ).
Costas likens it to the split finger fastball phenomenon of the 1980s, a pitch that came straight to the strike zone before quickly dropping down at the last second.
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