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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With all this in mind, the Pad Rats at launch complex 39-A made their way to the 10 ordnance wires in question on Atlantis' stack as it sat on the pad.
He drew a calendar on his pad of paper to start counting down the days.
He went to the kitchen table and wrote on the pad: date, time, incident, address.
Assessments of updated forecasts had convinced managers that the weather would not damage Atlantis on the pad.
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Powering a gadget is as simple as dropping it on the pad.
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"It had been a frustrating morning for us, I wrapped the fellow on the pad and I knew it was out straight away, " said Broad.
In the first week of the trial, Mr. Gupta sat seriously at the defense table, scribbling on a pad and smiling only occasionally at his lawyer.
The space industry of 2006 is like a rocket about to launch on its maiden voyage--nobody knows whether it will take off or just blow up on the pad.
In the few minutes we spent writing and drawing, we found we didn't have to apply much more pressure than we would if we were sketching on a pad of paper.
Despite a bunch of metallic objects being heaped on the pad, it was intelligent enough to only send power to the phones, keeping gum boxes and coins cool, calm and collected.
Waingankar then claimed the key wicket of Kevin Pietersen, who advanced down the wicket trying to whip the ball through mid-wicket but was hit on the pad - and the umpire upheld the lbw appeal.
Pietersen, meanwhile, was fortunate on 30 when he played across a delivery from Hossain and was hit on the pad in front of middle stump, but umpire Tony Hill gave him the benefit of the doubt.
Rohm's Wireless Power Transmission system also allows you to charge or power devices by placing them anywhere on the pad, rather than directly over charging positions, and it supports much greater transmission, with one prototype outputting up to 100 watts.
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Because Atlantis will not be able to reach the space station if it gets into trouble, or is damaged, on its Hubble flight, the Endeavour orbiter will be made ready on the pad for a rescue mission in case it is needed.
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But the real point is that even if one personally likes their phone, it can be seriously inconvenient to be stuck with a platform that is dying (think RIM), or to have to get used to one Os on you phone, another on your pad, and yet others for your TV, or car.
The tablet fits inside the Gamepad with a joystick and buttons on the right and another joystick with a directional pad on the left.
If you circle a word on the legal pad and tap one of the controls on the CrossPad, the computer will designate that particular word a "key word" and translate it into text that it can later retrieve when you ask it to search for topics.
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As Twitter discusses similar arrangements with other entertainment companies, it is telling TV networks that video clips on Twitter can pad viewership by convincing people to flip on the TV set when they might not otherwise do so, or by rewarding fans who are already tuning in by giving them exclusive video clips.
He wrote out the numbers on an easel pad, but they were imponderable abstractions.
The vehicle left its launch pad on the Kwajalein Atoll at just after 2230 GMT.
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Drug firms fought for space on the prescription pad by offering ever fatter rebates.
Our stems are designed in taste workshops, not on computers or on a drawing pad.
The reader had an interactive note pad on one side and the e-reader on the other side.
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Emery got his left pad on Marleau's attempt, but the puck barely slid over the goal line.
We listened to emotionally-charged accounts of a desperate and frustrating attempt to keep Challenger on the launch pad.
Shuttles often are rained on while sitting on the launch pad in Florida, but waterproofing protects the tiles.
He compared it to the Apollo 11 blaze that killed three astronauts on the launch pad in 1967.
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