Then simply place your thumb on the center control to navigate easily through the game.
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Hold one of your hands up, palm out, and cross your thumb over it.
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Imagine a repertoire of simple hand gestures: say, touching your thumb to each of your four fingers.
Imagine browsing a webpage and running your thumb along the side of your iPhone to scroll up and down.
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The 9900's optical pad is replaced with a camera that lays beneath the glass and senses the movement of your thumb.
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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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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 Note II's S Pen is slightly fatter on the button side, which -- when pressing your thumb against it -- contributes to more of a true pencil feel.
Yes, it's as small as you'd expect it to be, which means it's usually a better idea to left click with a tap instead of trying to squeeze your thumb and index finger on there.
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Upon laying your right thumb onto any of these, a sub-menu expands and you can go one level deeper by dragging your thumb to the left of your desired sub-category, and then let go to toggle the item.
When you perform certain gestures with your hand--such as touching your thumb to your index finger in the "okay" sign--there are electrical signals associated with that gesture that pass through the nerves in your upper arm as they carry commands from your brain to your hand.
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.
Rule of thumb: if your jargon has strayed that far from recognizable meaning, ditch it.
Here's a good rule of thumb: If your total student loan debt exceeds the amount you expect to earn in your first year out of school, you're borrowing too much.
Think of the old rule of thumb to subtract your age from 100 and invest that percentage in stocks or of the modern version in the form of target date retirement funds that start aggressive and become more conservative as you get closer to retirement.
The rule of thumb is to subtract your age from 100 and allocate the difference to stocks.
The surgeon makes your stomach the size of a thumb, as opposed to the size of a normal stomach, which is like a 2-liter soda bottle.
The rule of thumb is to use your age as a percentage of your savings to allocate to fixed income based funds (cash and bond funds) and the rest in stock funds (e.g. if you are 35, you might put 35% in bonds, 65% in stocks).
Add 30-50% to your figures to adjust as a rule of thumb.
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Add to the equation the high correlation in the stock market and high volatility, and suddenly the rule of thumb of investing 60% of your money in stocks and 40% in bonds no longer provides the returns they once did.
That way you can keep key customers under thumb while also getting valuable feedback on your business.
All you need is your raw genome data on, say, a thumb drive.
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His first rule of thumb: Be scent-conscious in your day-to-day life.
We were all ready to start harshing on the Top Tag Pet ID--a USB thumb drive that contains vital info about your pet--because it seems pretty silly to assume that a lost animal's rescuer would know what the hell to do with that small piece of plastic dangling from Tinkerbelle's collar.
As a rule of thumb, you can control one variable in your business: you.
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Wielding the gun with both hands means reaching out with your left arm to cup the stock and resting a thumb on an analog stick.
Although estimates vary, a typical rule of thumb is that you need 60 percent of your pre-retirement income to live comfortably after you retire.
When you are in your car and should only be using part of a thumb and part of an eyeball, this is really helpful.
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They call this thing ChatPerf, and it's a thumb-drive-sized atomizer that plugs into your mobile device so it can be triggered to release specific odors on command.
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