The post-college dating scene can be rough: Getting to know someone often means shouting across a noisy bar or scrolling through Internet dating profiles.
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Among the many examples of what shear touch could do, the research duo has raised the possibility of skipping through music by pushing left and right, or scrolling more slowly through your favorite website with a forceful dragging motion.
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The camera's large 3.0-inch LCD provides a beautiful display when shooing and recording video or simply scrolling through menu options.
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They plan to equip handsets with a large light emitting matrix to generate scrolling or blinking symbols recognizeable up to four meters away.
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That happens to be annoying when holding the device with one hand since you can't just use a thumb, or with two hands (for weaklings like us) because you have to drop one hand to do scrolling, or use a janky dual thumb method.
For instance, Pantech designers have added the ability to place up to 10 additional apps within the app drawer, which you can access by scrolling either left or right.
The Munich I Regional Court awarded Cupertino an injunction against Moto devices over the so-called "rubber-banding" patent, which relates to the bounce back animation when scrolling to the bottom or top of a list.
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True, I had to get used to scrolling over to the side or down.
It lets shoppers click to see how a style would look in their size or in a different color palette and has customer comments scrolling by.
Developers can also break apart some applications, like Gmail, to easily change look and layout on different tablets (think of it as a marriage of programming in modules and graphic templates.) There is a good 3-D capability, so scrolling YouTube galleries, looking at album art or turning the pages of ebooks looks good.
After simple online setup, you and your family can access all your favorite channels with a simple tap, swipe or scroll, removing the hassle of memorizing channel numbers and scrolling through lengthy on-screen guides.
" Or the officer's epaulets, circa 1820: "embroidered with gilt-metal thread in scrolling foliate designs, six-pointed silver metallic stars and gilt-brass buttons.
Keep scrolling to the right and you'll see apps broken down by category, such as social or entertainment.
Even with touch sensitivity turned off, clicking left or right with a second thumb resting (but not pressing) on the opposite side of the Pad resulted in scrolling the reverse direction.
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