The mouse at Xerox PARC could not be used to drag a window around the screen.
Why not make a virtue of the fact that they share a screen, tying the television picture to related Web information, perhaps even displayed as a window on the same screen?
Watch Together delivers a multi- window, second-screen shared experience for ooVoo's social video chat users, allowing active participation by all engaged in the chat, regardless of which friend initially selects and plays the video.
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Thanks to the breadth of the GALAXY Note II's amazing viewing experience, a feature called Popup Note extends the concept of Popup Play, which lets users open an S Note instantly as a pop-up window anywhere on the screen.
The new compose window, popping out of the bottom of the screen, feels almost like a chat window, meant to suit users who fire off short messages as opposed to those who crank out 1, 000 words in a first message.
Whether you were an MF Global employee or a broker or trader who cleared with them, you were suddenly unable to enter trades on the screen when that window had been open just minute before.
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On the software side of things, Samsung is taking advantage of its mobile devices' processing power to layer premium features on top of Android, such as the ability to run two apps at once in a split screen or separate window.
By default, you can see that tray of shortcuts even when you have a window open, but when you maximize it (more on that in a moment) the window takes up the whole screen, obscuring the row of apps at the bottom.
It will also provide a window into how quickly the third screen gets adopted into commerce as a whole.
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The phone's screen acts as a window on to the augmented world overlaying it with arrows, signs and other cues to help navigate through an industrial plant to the faulty equipment.
Playback is limited to the native media player -- no YouTube greatest hits on top of your email just yet -- but the window can be moved around the screen and at its fixed size covers just under a sixth of the full screen.
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You can resize this window and drag it anywhere on the screen, so you can continue to browse, chat, text and do much more while the video plays on.
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Speaking of settings, Samsung is proud of an expanded panel of one-touch settings icons you can get to by pulling down the Android notification window from the top edge of the screen.
With embedded video, you can also change the size of the video by using the Full Screen link underneath the playback window - if you are using version 9 of Flash or above.
Can run iPhone Apps as either a really tiny window, or scaled up to full-screen size.
Looking at the screen is like peering through a window into a world where characters and objects have true depth.
Among the new technologies on display is a device that transforms the front window of a store into a giant touch screen.
Worse, some airports insist on placing a "frame" around your Web browser window with airport-related ads, limiting valuable screen real estate.
These communications end up in the "Hub, " a window that slides in from the left side of the screen.
"The window in which 3-D looks 3-D on that screen and doesn't appear fuzzy or make you feel cross-eyed, is extremely narrow, " he writes.
Curator Philip Conisbee's favorite Vuillard painting is Place Vintimille, a five-paneled screen of a park in Paris as seen from the window of the artist's Montmartre apartment.
But Winky Dink's influence lives on in every screen that every person today regards as a two-way window.
And, if you're feeling really frisky, you can pull a window and snap it into place so that it takes up half the screen -- again, similar to what you can do in Windows 7.
The signal was transmitted hundreds of feet through the window to the router in the dining area, then to a flat-screen Panasonic LED television, without a break in the action.
Login at Instagram.com and you'll get a replica of your Instagram home screen with photos from everyone you follow unfurling as you scroll down the browser window.
It's nice to work in one window while viewing content or chatting in another, but since everything feels shrunken on this giant screen, the setup isn't perfect.
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The next dialogue window will ask you to choose a default locale, select the locale you just chose on the previous screen and press Enter.
Winky Dink said he wanted the children to mail away for a "Magic Window, " which was actually a cheaply produced, thin sheet of plastic that adhered to the TV screen by static electricity.
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