Brad Anderson's "Next Stop Wonderland, " which is getting a split decision from yours truly (half a thumb up, if you crave an ill-defined generalization), is cute, no doubt about it, but in annoying ways that are fast becoming the calling card of the format.
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If you thought the original Note was big and unwieldy, prepare to stretch your thumb even further up the display.
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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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An impromptu group gallop along the edge of a field led to a fall, and when I stood up my thumb didn't.
"Until you start drilling you can't say for sure how much oil there is, " says Donald Boham, Shell's spokesman in Lagos, licking his thumb and holding it up to an imaginary gust of wind to make his point.
And the body length, which was once tailored to hit at the end of the thumb, has now inched up to the palm.
The thumb grip's pair of programmable rockers similarly won our favor because of their ridges up top -- like the thumb keys on Logitech's G700, we could press these just by slightly shifting the base of our thumb, leaving our thumbtip free to hold the red sniper button -- a feature we'll talk about later.
Passed over as skipper for this series in favour of Daniel Vettori after he retired from one-day cricket, Fleming had dislocated a thumb and missed a warm-up match but showed no early signs of discomfort.
No, this is a fancy backlit indicator, one that doesn't light up at all until you thumb the dedicated performance switch on the machine's right side.
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For the most part, the basic rule of thumb is one accomplishment per inscription or personalization up to five words.
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Investors who aren't under Uncle Sam's thumb can move their money elsewhere, bidding up prices and driving down yields on other fixed-income assets in the U.S. and offshore.
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Imagine browsing a webpage and running your thumb along the side of your iPhone to scroll up and down.
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So she picked up a bag the size of her thumb, emptied out the beans from within, and began to snap.
There is an injury doubt over Stephen Jones, who is having further scans on a thumb injury, with Dan Biggar the back-up fly-half if required.
Expect the camera to hit stores later this month in black and white -- you, dear reader, can thumb through our hands-on gallery for an up-close look today, though.
Hold one of your hands up, palm out, and cross your thumb over it.
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Apple is taking that supposedly wasted cash hoard and kicking serious ass while the rest of the computer industry sits around sucking its thumb and starts complaining about big, bad Apple cleaning up components and shutting them out.
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First up for Headley is recovering from a broken left thumb that is expected to sideline him for the first two weeks of the season.
For a start, with Gordon D'Arcy a certainty to be ruled out, O'Sullivan will be looking to get Shane Horgan back up and running with a splinter on a fractured thumb.
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There has always been a good rule of thumb that your HDTV doesn't need the help of a DVD up-scaler if the HDTV has a good processor in it.
This may be tangential to the broader questions this whole affair has rustled up but I think that shooting uphill is a good rule of thumb, whether or not you face legal threats.
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To stand up in court and say you made a decision based on what your thumb or gut told you is to invite damages.
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The general Google rule of thumb is that people tend to click on the first or second link that comes up in a search.
And there is the whole concept of the network service center, by which data can be forward-staged and transmitted via the network as opposed to people picking up their hard drives, or, in this case, what used to be thumb drives or servers, and moving them.
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We tend to grip mice between the base of our thumb and pinky, but the Rat 9 isn't well designed for that -- we ended up pinching our skin in one of the mouse's seams where no amount of soft-touch plastic could save us from chafing on those delightfully rakish edges, something that could perhaps have been avoided with a little rubber instead.
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