The origins of the pencil date to the ancient Romans, who used to write with a device known as a stylus--a metal stick, usually lead, which was used to scratch words onto papyrus.
With this increasingly popular protocol, supported mobile apps -- regardless of their platform -- are able to read from and write to our little WiFi device.
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The Empowered app, which took a little less than a year to write, incorporates many of the device's built-in functions.
And due to failure to roll out device management software and write group polices, they are hesitant about letting employees bring their tablets in for work.
Similarly, he says, hackers can write short programs to access a device's internal phone book, initiate or respond to a call, or do whatever else a legitimate user could do.
Users can, for example, write or edit a document on one device, put that device to sleep, open the same document on another device, and pick up where they left off, right down to the cursor position.
The cap of this pen doubles as a stylus tip, giving users the option to write with ink on paper in the iNotebook device and then quickly switch over to writing with a stylus in the app.
With IRISNotes Executive 2, users can write and draw on photos taken with their iOS device and can be shared immediately on Facebook or Flicker.
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In producing applications for mobile phones, independent software developers historically have faced a big challenge: how to write software that works across phones without buying every device and testing their software on it.
The stylus itself has been fattened out and lengthened to three-quarters of the device's length, making it easier to write with and its end is now rubberized to give it more pen-like friction on the glass screen.
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Advanced device lockdown through flexible keyboard filters and a new unified write filter that combines previous write filters into a single, streamlined solution for better management and enhanced uptime.
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Device makers try to speed things up by anticipating what we are trying to write and offering solutions, often with vexing or comical results (obscene examples abound at Damn You, Autocorrect).
The Scout Drive Button eliminates the need to write down directions, print out maps, or copy and paste the address into another GPS device or application.
Dropbox is designed to make it possible for people to access their files across any device, so the ability to built the technology simply and not have to continually write it over in different languages was a major help.
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For example, you could write an app that uses the stickers as triggers -- apparently one museum plans to affix the device to art, so as visitors approach, a text notification will pop up describing the piece.
The device continues to read out words and sentences, adding in the ability to trace letters and write them out on its special paper.
In several instances indicative of the way such complaints were handled, company representatives did not write down reports of worsened pain after using the pump, withdrawal symptoms, and unexplained vibrations of the device, according to the letter.
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Perhaps the biggest gain may be in dual storage computers where a flash memory device is used for storing operating systems, software and frequently accessed content (and maybe even for write caching) while a hard disk drive provides much less expensive mass storage of user data.
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