PC, for example, choosing to have your messages displayed on a small screen or read aloud by speech synthesiser.
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The bigger, easier to read screen makes navigation a lot more pleasant than on, say, the tiny read-out on Cowon's iAudio M3, and it can display cover art for the song you're listening to.
And with Dragon TV's text-to-speech, television content and options on the screen can be read aloud.
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Of those surveyed, 52% preferred to read on screen compared with 32% who preferred print, with the remainder having no opinion or preferring not to read at all.
Even though BlackBerry has only only a half-sized screen, I can read anything I want on it.
"I couldn't read the screen because the way the light was hitting it, all I could see were finger smears, " says the software developer.
The clarity of text on the HD screen lets me easily read internet news or mail from the comfort of my easy chair or couch.
The screen was difficult to read in the sunlight, an Internet connection was required to buy more books and she found herself re-charging the device every day.
Younger children who read printed books as well as used computers were more likely to have higher reading levels than those who only read on screen, the study said.
One, you can read them on a flat screen instead of hold at your breakfast table, instead of going to your office and read it on a traditional monitor, that's not really good enough to replace the printed newspaper.
Easy-to-read full-screen graphics help users get the most out of their workouts.
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As it gets easier to read documents on a screen, fewer people are bothering to print anything out.
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Since 2000, Amazon had been offering various kinds of e-books (to be read on a computer screen), without success.
E-ink felt significantly more like printed text than a sometimes glare-prone tablet screen, which was difficult to read in bright sunlight.
Touch navigation: Users can simply move their finger around the screen and the voice synthesis will read the text located under their finger.
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The Mini-pad might fit better into your pocket or into the hands of a child, but it is harder to read on its smaller screen.
Older DVI monitors without content protection will get nothing but a blank screen when playing protected content (read: any commercial Blu-ray or HD DVD disc released).
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Young people are now much more likely to prefer to read on a computer screen rather than a printed book or magazine, according to a UK survey.
From what we've seen, there appears to be plenty of space on the screen to show incoming calls, read emails with eight lines of text at a time, view appointment details, select songs and control volume, and, of course, see the current time.
The new Office is designed to work best on Windows 8 and is clearly designed for tablets, featuring responsiveness to Touch (including the ability to swipe your finger across the screen or pinch and zoom to read your documents and presentations), Inking, as well as new Windows 8 applications.
But how do you screen for people who might want to read adventure literature?
They can also be reformatted to fit your mobile's screen so they're easier to read without pinching-to-zoom.
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"I don't even read long articles off the screen, " he confessed.
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He asked his crew of engineers and physicists if they could build something that read data straight off the screen, like a camera, and then translated that information into electronic bits and sent it to the waiting IBM PC.
And even PDFs, though they may look fantastic on iRex's screen, are still far too small to read comfortably.
Incredibly, the FDA is still dragging its feet: It won't allow radiologists to read digital results on a computer screen.
Music information such as album artwork is displayed on the smartphone screen, while incoming text messages can be read aloud through the car's speakers for superior driving convenience.
The info pops up on the screen with small, easy-to-read windows.
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Or, if you would rather read them yourself, the display screen is a 128-pixel by 64-pixel liquid crystal display that can show five lines of text.
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