The live-tile design is strikingly different from the icon-based environment we find on Android devices and the iPhone.
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You zoom around in this rich, icon-filled space and call up digital photos, Web pages, science projects or PowerPoint presentations.
Many have described the user interfaces of products such as the iPhone and Surface as ushering in the post-WIMP (windows-icon-mouse-pointer) era.
She came to Iconathon to give a talk about food insecurity in Los Angeles, and she stayed for the icon-drawing session afterward.
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Five icons populate the base of the screen, including the app drawer, while the homescreen itself has a more typical four-icon-wide berth.
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Mindstorms uses an easy-to-learn (yet plenty powerful) icon-based programming language, which is loosely based around Logo, an educational language developed at MIT's media lab.
The AVR-890 and AVR-990 both feature Denon's newly designed GUI with overlay via the HDMI connection, and the AVR-590 and AVR-790 both feature Denon's new enhanced icon-based OSD.
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Last year, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando designed the Stone Hill Center, a 32, 000-square-foot cement-and-glass space that is the area's first modern architectural icon -- and a seamless addition to the serene grounds.
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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"I can't see a day when all red kettles go virtual, because the sight of someone standing next to a red kettle has become an icon -- a symbol of Christmas to people, " he said.
Or was it because there was no way a jury three-quarters composed of African-Americans could have convicted such a revered icon -- especially when some of the most critical evidence had come from a proven manipulator of the truth?
The kitsch element is still there -- basically, this is the story of what it's like to be turned into a kill-or-be-killed videogame icon -- but the director, Joseph Kosinski, stages the extreme fighting with a fleet and threatening charge.
"Mariah Carey is a true global icon -- one of the most accomplished artists on the planet -- and we feel extremely fortunate that she was able to bring her wisdom and experience to the 'American Idol' contestants this season, " they said.
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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The sound quality was absolutely fantastic when played through the Icon system, which includes a separate amplifier and the Icon S-X speakers.
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"Han Feng has a kind of all-around success in design that others don't, and that makes her one of the most influential people out there, " says friend and fashion icon Yue-Sai Kan of Shanghai.
But Singer said his version of the superhero was a "very romantic icon" - handsome, virtuous and vulnerable.
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He, and his own son after him, may yet find Hello Kitty an enduring icon to cutedom - and riches.
It should make her a new and unlikely icon for work-life balance types everywhere, and especially for the trust which champions their cause.
But two years and an adorable child later, Tom is gracing magazine covers and blog entries for his relationship with his style-icon daughter.
To some the Shard is a new icon for London - a demonstration of the energy, urgency and modernity of the great city.
If Warhol's "Orange Marilyn" is, as Sotheby's catalog chatter suggests, the shining icon of 20th-century art, then we can relax -- the bull cycle ain't over.
Still, Liberace's supporters say he can and should be remembered as a gay icon, nonetheless - not one that represents liberation, but a none-too-distant era when sexual minorities had to communicate via coded language and innuendo.
Like a broad-forces historian, he sets out to explain how a relative latecomer, starting out after Matsushita in the rubble of post-war Tokyo, should become a 20th-century icon with a brand name as well known around the world as Coca-Cola.
To shut them off, click or right-click each icon and select the option that turns it off--usually Exit.
It's a little buried at the moment -- hidden behind the "i" icon in the chat window -- but everyone's favorite social network is now offering a way to place free voice calls to friends.
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Hammer -- a rap and dance icon in the late 1980s and 1990s -- was arrested on suspicion of resisting an officer and obstructing an officer in the performance of his duties, according to police spokesman Herb Walters.
There are a lot of people out there -- a couple of past and present Engadget editors included -- who would love a souped-up BlackBerry Torch running Android 2.3 with a BBM icon emblazoned on its high-resolution homescreen.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu, an icon of the anti-apartheid movement, has called for just that.
Fiskars, the oldest company in Finland, managed to make an icon out of orange-handled scissors.
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