Even then, Sintchak's sneaking suspicion is that it will be the "fun" sites -- Web pages of pop stars or sports icons -- that will be the biggest hits with the students.
However, unlike with WP8 and its NT kernel, other apps have no access to the lockscreen, so all you'll get at a glance will be calendar appointments or sparse notification icons for email, calls or SMS. Any missed tweets or Facebook interaction, for instance, will remain just that if you pull your phone out of a pocket and glance at it.
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Popular names sometimes reflect characters in pop culture, style icons or plain old demographic changes.
Users become color icons or, if you'd rather, 3-D characters such as fish or bunnies.
But it also connects to a personal computer so the user can import custom graphics like channel icons or pictures of individual components.
Others sites will offer pay-per-play classic games such as Asteroids and Pac Man, and others will offer cinema and theatre tickets or ring tones and icons.
In other words, free players will be able to grind their way to the gray icons below, or pay for them.
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The common thread among them is better app management, including customized default apps for basics like emails and calendars and cosmetic changes like hiding apps you never use or creating better, bolder icons.
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Or it was in deciding which icons deserved covers when they died, and what new cultural figures were worth highlighting on the way up.
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You will see hundreds of these icons offering RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, which is a way to get information sent to you, such as articles, classified ads (say from Craigslist.com), hotel schedules or even audio files (or podcasts).
Swipe up to see a home screen, or app launcher of your favorite app icons.
These right-hand panels, which you can flip through, resemble the screen of a smartphone or tablet, with apps represented by icons.
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Using the main interface screen, you can access what you need much more quickly, plus you can dispense with keeping armies of icons on your working space or creating endless toolbars for shortcuts.
Designed to make finding your preferred entertainment as easy as possible, the Logitech Harmony Touch lets you add, remove and re-order up to 50 favorite channel icons from your respective cable or satellite provider right on its vibrant 2.4-inch color touch-screen.
Screens shots that purportedly show the new Android homepage, possibly called Facebook Home, show buttons along the top for common Facebook actions, such as updating a status, posting a photo or checking into a location, and icons for the major Facebook apps including Instagram and Messenger in the center of the screen.
"Icons don't exactly get arrested or end up in rehab, " says John Condon, chief brand officer at Chicago-based Leo Burnett USA, with a laugh.
When a user rolls over or clicks the icon, a number of small icons pop up on the bottom of the image, each of which are a new kind of app.
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Much like those who manage Mr. Speedy, the Alka-Seltzer man, Tony the Tiger or Colonel Sanders, those representing former living brand icons know how, where and why they should make their star appearances.
"The opportunity for a museum or a private collector to buy one of the great icons of art history is unlikely to be repeated any time soon, " said Shaw.
Why not just arbitrarily slap on icons of a goat, chicken... or both?
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Dedicated icons on the touch screen give access to YouTube or the Google and Yahoo search engines.
Instead of a desktop with icons and windows, you see a series of squares or tiles.
From here you can reply or choose one of the actions to perform (by tapping the icons above rather than swiping).
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Nearly 40, 000, 000 people visited Las Vegas in 2012, and by most accounts the Las Vegas Strip was the third or fourth most popular tourist attraction in the world, dwarfing tourism icons such as Disney World and Niagara Falls.
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Their icons might be Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Colin Powell or Maya Angelou.
"I sometimes buy Christian icons for my Orthodox in-laws and they buy me Muslim books or calendars, " says Zarif.
The presence of two icons does not represent a deliberate move away from younger headliners, rock bands or British stars, the pair say.
Take, for example, the GUI or Graphical User Interface, which allows the moving of items on a desktop computer using icons and a mouse.
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