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.
To sign up, you take a personality test that Fisher designed, which asks you questions about everything from feelings about following rules to your understanding of complex machinery and the length of your ring finger, relative to your index finger.
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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We didn't have to change our usual or "traditional" finger positioning, meaning we were able to keep our right thumb in the bottom left corner of the pad and use our index finger to navigate. (Even if our thumb moved slightly up on the pad it still worked.) Best of all, while using that finger positioning we rarely zoomed in on something by mistake.
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They worked out the ratio of the length of the index finger to the length of the ring finger for each child, and compared it with those of 34 of the children's healthy siblings, 88 of their fathers, 88 of their mothers, and a number of unrelated controls that were matched for sex and age.
The capacitive display was extremely responsive to our light finger taps and familiar multitouch gestures like two finger scrolling and pinching to zoom.
And the President has reserved the right to veto that vote so that he can wag a finger at Congress (you can pick the finger).
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It's easy to point a finger at Bernie Madoff (and he deserves the finger), but the truth is, it's not just him.
Speaking of swiping downwards, two-finger scrolling happens to be very smooth, but one finger scrolling isn't supported.
"I remember putting my finger in the lava and watching it flow around my finger, " he says.
When looking at the thumbnail grid of images that appear beside one large image, select a bunch of photos at once by holding one finger on the first image in that group and a second finger on the last image.
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Because Sangamo Chief Executive Edward Lanphier obtained exclusive licenses from the handful of academics working on zinc-finger proteins, Sangamo has a near lock on patents relating to zinc-finger proteins.
Touch navigation: Users can simply move their finger around the screen and the voice synthesis will read the text located under their finger.
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Readers can swipe a finger to turn a page, zoom in and out by pinching fingers together or apart or write notes on the page or highlight text with a finger or the supplied stylus.
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After all, the commission merely wagged its finger at Ireland, something international institutions do all the time to one country or another, and Ireland is free to wag its finger, or rather two fingers, back.
Although the reason is not yet understood, earlier studies have shown that finger-length ratios are a robust marker of how much of that hormone a baby has been exposed to in utero the more testosterone, the longer the ring finger.
It is a strange and slightly ghoulish idea, because it means that if a patient tries to flex his missing finger, for example, a muscle in another part of his body (which is now connected to the nerves that used to control the finger) contracts instead.
To wit: The US is unwilling to lift a finger to defend itself against an act of information warfare which exposed to the world that the US is unwilling to lift a finger to protect itself and its allies from the most profound military threats endangering international security today.
Responsible for what the Ouija board might say, Although it's my finger that moves the piece.
That sounds like finger-pointing from a guy who fails to take responsibility for his misdeeds.
He lost half a finger on his right hand but gained a lifelong lesson about safety.
First, finger pointing between left and right is off the mark in this case.
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Whenever I wanted, I could just slip my finger in my pocket and press record.
When the President did that, the President -- we're going to move beyond agency finger-pointing.
Massu said he could not put his finger on what wrong for him in the final.
When it comes to sophisticated attacks many think the finger points in one direction: towards China.
"It stinks to high heavens what happened here, " said a finger-waiving Rep. Stephen Lynch.
In 1947 Gottlieb began a revolution with Humpty Dumpty, the first game with finger-operated flippers.
Children with Asperger's also had abnormal index-to-ring finger ratios, though less so than full-blown autistics.
For 2005 he puts the finger on Travelzoo, an online aggregator of travel deals.
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