The operating system runs pretty smoothly but sometimes the software takes a few seconds to react after tapping something, such
as an app icon or book cover.
The first option uses the accent color as the background for your Start menu, taskbar, and action center and also highlights certain items on those elements — such
as app icons on the Start menu — with the same accent color.
The Bokeh and AR Camera effects, for example, both live
as app icons (as well as being part of the camera interface).
The smallest tile is nothing more than a shortcut, much the same
as an app icon on Android or iOS.
Bookmarks can be accessed from the Chrome menu and appear
as app icons on the screen for easy perusal.
Only show notifications
as app icons on lock screen: We love this option.
Not exact matches
A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in greater depth: Pocket Sun, who,
as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur who founded book self - publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile
app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to
Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company with annual revenue of more than $ 1.5 billion.
Blackberry sued Facebook for patent infringement, saying the social network's messaging
apps infringed on the former phone maker's intellectual property related to such innovations
as showing an unread message indicator on top of an
icon and showing multiple incoming messages in an inbox.
Mobile
app Trainz Driver sold 20 times
as many units after an
icon change.
Simple guidelines can make a huge difference, such
as designing an
icon consistent with the
app design.
Lots of websites and
apps feature the
icon known
as the «hamburger,» three parallel horizontal dashes usually at the top corner of an
app or website.
If your desktop is full of
icons (such
as screenshots you no longer need), you can hold down «command» then drag your cursor over several of them to select multiple files, folders or
apps at a time.
It also features calendar and weather
apps,
as well
as the Epicurious recipe
app, which allows you to tap
icons for items in your fridge and get meal suggestions.
As you hover over each listed
app, you'll see two little
icons pop up: a pencil and an X. Click the pencil, and it will show you a dialogue indicating what permissions you've given the
app.
As Apple added new services to those Apple TV models, it would litter users» home screen with
app icons, regardless of whether or not the user wanted them.
Gina Forster, RD, LD, will describe their allergy
icon program, which includes allergen tags on their website and phone
app,
as well
as focus groups, and a bi-annual Food Fair, designed to showcase foods that are nut free, gluten free, and vegetarian.
You can find all about our
app on the home page: ketodietapp.com / (
as long
as the
icon looks like the one on the home page, it is our
app).
Readers can even save it
as an
icon an select it from their list of
apps!
As an anecdote, I remember once watching my partner's infant nephew pressing
icons on an iPad to open up
apps on the screen, and how extremely rewarding this was to him.
The
icon - driven
app allows first - graders to research topics
as part of the required curriculum.
In the dashboard of the Legacy I was happy to see a 7 - inch touchscreen showing six large
icons for features such
as navigation, phone, stereo, and
apps.
An
icon for OnStar RemoteLink, known
as OnStar MyLink at the time of the release of the myGMC
app, launched the standalone OnStar
app.
General Motors has a quiet hit with the MyLink infotainment system: big touchscreen
icons, big rubbery knobs that feel grippy not slippery, reasonable menu structures, and the ability to add and control smartphone
apps such
as Pandora.
It took me a little while to figure out that the home button called up a main screen with touch
icons for navigation, media, radio, phone, and
apps; while the menu button called up context - sensitive menus, such
as destination entry when the navigation system was up.
-- Tour of the Mac interface — video tutorials,
icons, multi-touch gestures, preferences, the Dock — Using Applications — Launchpad, iTunes,
App Store, Preview, Quicktime — Dictation — use enhanced Dictation to convert speech to text — Screenshots — take a screenshot on your Mac — Exporting a document
as a PDF: In most applications, choose File > Export then select PDF.
The first home screen on the Springboard is populated with a T - Mobile Bonus
Apps widget
as well
as icons for the Android Market, Blockbuster, Music, TeleNav GPS, the web browser, and Zinio.
As a result, most of the
icons that I see on the screen, including the very important
Apps and Settings
icons, have become «unclickable».
The Kobo Kids
app features a bright and bubbly interface that showcases a series of
icons pointing to genre topics such
as space, dinosaurs, animals, classics, superheroes and many others.
We continue to be fans of the arrow
icon in the bottom system bar, which calls up helpful Mini
Apps such
as Calculator, Alarms, Email and Task Manager that open above the currently opened
app.
The default screen shows a carousel of your most recently - used
apps and features, and you can setup a stash of Favourite
apps that pop - up
as a little drawer from the bottom of the screen when you tap a star
icon in the persistent nav menu.
And for
as much
as Barnes & Noble wants this to be a simple device, there's something inherently not simple, chaotic even, about devoting the majority of the home screen real estate to a no - holds - barred zone where you can stack book, magazine and
app icons any which way.
The capacitive and multi-touch performance was impressive
as expected, however we did it find it slightly fidgety when trying to re-arrange
app icons around the screen, where it often annoyingly switched to other homescreens.
Also to let readers know the Azus Zenpad 8 ′ (and probably 10 ′) has the Nook library widget and current read widget preinstalled which is the same
as the branded tablets except they do not have the «shop»
app icon or what ever its called
Not so much with text
as with
app icons and some graphics.
The only downside with
apps from other sources is the images aren't designed to be
as large
as the Kindle's homescreen makes them, making sideloaded
app icons look all pixelated and stretched.
As a substitute for a native mail
app, RIM offers four
app icons — one each for Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, and AOL Mail — that, misleadingly, redirect to those Web - based mail sites in the Web browser rather than to an installed mail
app.
The learning curve is really minimal if at all, your still using the same visual cues (
icons: home, back,
apps) which triggers a known response, placement is not
as significant.
There is an
app draw accessed by the central
icon on the lower, which again follows a more vanilla path compared to more heavily customized UIs we have seen many of the newer smartphone devices from Chinese vendors such
as Xiaomi and Hauwei recently which are tending towards a more iOS influenced approach that discards the
app draw.
I'll just hope this forced useless
app can be hidden within an
icon as can be done in iOS7
as I'll keep using the best
app for e-books there is: Marvin
The new QNX car display has the same web browser
as the PlayBook, some familiar looking applications and even the same
App World
icon that we are used to seeing.
The FreeTime
app only allows Books, Videos and
Apps as content / access types — no photos, audiobooks, web, etc., yet the Favorites star icon / menu is there and it instructs the user to «drag favorite videos, websites, apps, photos...» to the Favorites tab to store them th
Apps as content / access types — no photos, audiobooks, web, etc., yet the Favorites star
icon / menu is there and it instructs the user to «drag favorite videos, websites,
apps, photos...» to the Favorites tab to store them th
apps, photos...» to the Favorites tab to store them there.
As with the Sony Tablet S, the Tablet P uses a white background for the
app menu along with a nifty way of letting you know you've reached the end of the list with an animation that stretches the
app icons wider apart.
We especially like the nifty screen animation that appears when you're moving from one screen of
apps to the next; all the
icons zoom forward
as you swipe.
In addition to the Kurio Store and the
app icon to open the Kurio interface, the rest of the choices are family - friendly
apps such
as «Angry Birds,» «Cut the Rope,» «DoodleJump,» «FruitNinja HD,» «Where's My Water» and «World of Goo.»
To get the phone to act
as a Wi - Fi hotspot, you need to start the tethering
app by tapping on its
icon; it usually has some variation of «mobile hotspot» in its name so it's hard to miss.
The directions are outlined in the
App World description
as well
as a note about deleting the
icons for the Hub and Text Message
apps from the display (though one can find them in BlackBerry World to reinstall).
You can easily share pages with compatible
apps, such
as Twitter, and drop bookmarks into your home menu, giving you a neat
icon.
The
app can also buffer tracks
as you listen to them streamed over Wi - Fi (or 3G) so you can then play them again when there's no connection,
as designated by a little pin
icon on the track.
Often represented
as a gear
icon on a smartphone or tablet, «settings» is an
app that lets you customize your device to fit your preferences.
It can display
app shortcuts and toolbar
icons, it can detect stylus input, it can be used
as a trackpad, and it can detect gestures like pinch - zooming.