Most noticeably, the company has killed the sliding drawer which used to house all of your application icons -- the tab is replaced with a handy "home" icon which zooms in your icons over top of whatever homescreen you're on.

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"While we're improving Maps, you can try alternatives by downloading map apps from the App Store like Bing, MapQuest and Waze, or use Google or Nokia maps by going to their websites and creating an icon on your home screen to their web app, " he added.

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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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Plucked from a boy's home, he was a man-child who grew into an American icon.

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You also get a set of stickers for automatically tagging the pages you upload to the service. (The sticker with an airplane icon might corral the travel-related, while the "home" sticker could tag all things domestic.) The notebooks are available in two sizes one pocketable and come either ruled or squared.

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The best-known green-home technology must surely be the compact-fluorescent light bulb, the very icon of green living.

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To take a shot you simply launch the camera app, whose icon is permanently positioned on the lower-left corner of each home screen.

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