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Another example: voice mail. Until now you've had to grope through your v-mail by ear, blindly, like an eyeless cave creature. On the iPhone you see all your messages laid out visually, onscreen, labeled by caller. If you want to hear one, you touch it. Done. Now try a text message: instead of jumbling them all together in your In box, iPhone arranges your texts by recipient, as threaded conversations made of little jewel-like bubbles. And instead of "typing" on a three-by-four number keypad, you get a display of a full, usable QWERTY keyboard...
...Another example: voicemail. Until now you've had to grope through your v-mail by ear, blindly, like an eyeless cave-creature. On the iPhone you see all your messages laid out visually, onscreen, labeled by caller. If you want to hear one, you touch it. Done. Now try a text message: Instead of jumbling them all together in your in-box, iPhone arranges your texts by recipient, as threaded conversations made of little jewel-like bubbles. And instead of "typing" on a four-by-four number keypad, you get a full, usable QWERTY keyboard. You will never again have...
Some former co-stars say you're quite the kisser. What's the secret to a great onscreen lip lock...
...Science Center might be exposed to some pretty sick stuff on frozen laptop screens, but you don’t need to worry about having your fascination with naughty nurses made known to the public. When asked if the computers brought into the clinic ever had dirty pictures frozen onscreen, a UA who refused to give his name for fear of retribution laughed and grew evasive. “It sometimes does do that, but I don’t know if that would be right to bring up.” In theory, the UA who unfreezes your computer...
...each actor in the ensemble cast does his best with the role he is given, however unnatural his lines or his character. Greg Kinnear (“Little Miss Sunshine”) portrays the head of marketing of Mickey’s, an imaginary fast food chain. He is onscreen for the majority of the movie and might have become a character to whom the audience could relate; instead, his character serves only to initiate the fusion of the corporate and industrial worlds. Wilmer Valderrama (“That 70’s Show”), Catalina Sandino Moreno...