A user interface that uses icons. Typically refers to a graphical interface (GUI).
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- Iconic Notes and Lists 2.2.3 (Mobile)
- With Iconic Notes and Lists write notes and organize all your information with style! Now with a new and cool lists feature. It has useful features, has the most intuitive and fun graphical user interface, home Screen-style representation of notes as icons, folders, sub folders, familiar drag-and-drop interface for moving...
- Software downloads 2009-09-30
- Lenovo ThinkPad T400s (MultiTouch)
- Lenovo's ThinkPad brand is virtually synonymous with business laptops, and the company like IBM before it has spent years perfecting the nondescript black-box system, with its iconic TrackPoint and double set of mouse buttons. We liked the 14-inch T400s ("s" for "slim") when we first saw it earlier this year...
- Product reviews 2009-09-15
- 2010 Chevrolet Camaro
- Photo gallery:2010 Chevrolet Camaro LT Ford Mustang, Dodge Challenger, and now the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro: this holy trinity of retro muscle cars is now complete. Each car, being iconic in its own way, will have its own set of fanatical adherents regardless of how well it drives or what tech...
- Product reviews 2009-08-18
- SSuite Office - Excalibur 1.0 (Windows)
- With its full 32-bit architecture and stability, it can improve your productivity and document format compatibility. This office suite introduces some new innovative concepts in interface design and user-friendly application interaction. You get instant system access, top class application design and a cleaner desktop to name a few. The graphical-user-interface...
- Software downloads 2009-08-15
- 2009 Toyota Camry Hybrid
- Photo gallery:2009 Toyota Camry HybridThe Prius may stand out as the iconic hybrid, but for those not needing to broadcast their green credentials to such a degree, Toyota also has the Camry Hybrid. Other than hybrid badges on sides and rear, the 2009 Toyota Camry Hybrid looks just like any...
- Product reviews 2009-06-04
- T-Mobile announces 3G-enabled Sidekick LX
- Not content with just the G1 smartphone, T-Mobile today announced the newest T-Mobile Sidekick LX, featuring 3G for faster data speeds and enhanced mobile access to popular social media sites. The Sidekick LX is available for pre-order starting today on T-Mobile's site. ...
- Blog posts 2009-04-17
- SSuite Office - The Fifth Element 2.1 (Windows)
- SSuite Office - The Fifth Element runs on all Windows platforms and all hardware systems. With its full 32-bit architecture and stability, it can improve your productivity and document format compatibility. This office suite introduces some new innovative concepts in interface design and user-friendly application interaction. You get instant system...
- Software downloads 2009-03-04
- CES 2009: Liveblogging Palm's press conference [day 3]
- Scroll down for newest info -- wireless is spotty! PALM IS ALIVE AND WELL Here's the whole press conference, from start to finish: 1:36PM EST: I'm sitting in the second row of Palm's very crowded press conference in a large ballroom...
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended
- After spending a few weeks working with a beta version, I've concluded that there's just enough that's better in the CS4 updates to Photoshop and Photoshop Extended--most notably, usability improvements for core features--that many people will find themselves sighing, biting the bullet, and upgrading. That bullet biting stems from Adobe's...
- Product reviews 2008-09-23
- Adobe Photoshop CS4
- After spending a few weeks working with a beta version, I've concluded that there's just enough that's better in the CS4 updates to Photoshop and Photoshop Extended--most notably, usability improvements for core features--that many people will find themselves sighing, biting the bullet, and upgrading. That bullet biting stems from Adobe's...
- Product reviews 2008-09-23
- LG Chocolate 3 (Verizon Wireless)
- One could argue that as the Razr was to Motorola, the Chocolate was to LG. It was the first real iconic phone from LG, gaining plenty of hype because of its slender look and candy bar moniker. The Chocolate was also one of the first to really showcase Verizon's V...
- Product reviews 2008-07-15
- A graphical interface to medical knowledge
- In 'Road signs for physicians,' I've told you six weeks ago that French researchers had developed a new iconic drug information system named VCM, short for 'Visualization of Medical Knowledge.' Now, the same team has designed a graphical interface for facilitating the access to medical knowledge. Here is a link...
- Blog posts 2008-06-14
- Developers snub Vista in favor of XP
- Developers snub Vista in favor of XPSlight misinformationIts very standard to target previous versions of OSs. In fact, 2000 was the last time I saw the majority of programmers target a recent OS, and that was just because 2k was so good.Dumb!To believe that Vista won't be accepted by...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-19
- The Eternal Floppy Disk: The Icon that Never Dies
- When was the last time you had a computer with a floppy disk drive? Five years? Six? If you’re a Mac user, it could be ten years or more. Safe to say the floppy disk has been a thing of the past for eons, at least in computing years. And,...
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- SSuite Galaxy Office 1 (Windows)
- With its full 32-bit architecture and stability, it can improve your productivity and document format compatibility. This office suite introduces some new innovative concepts in interface design and user-friendly application interaction. You get instant system access, top class application design and a cleaner desktop to name a few. The graphical-user-interface...
- Software downloads 2007-10-08
- Motorola Razr2 V9m (Sprint)
- Just when you think Motorola has milked everything it can out of the Razr line, here comes yet another version of the now-iconic phone. But instead of just a simple refresh, the Motorola Razr2 series is a complete redesign of the handsets. Believe us when we say we're as tired...
- Product reviews 2007-08-11
- Friday Rant - The Office Ribbon
- Friday Rant - The Office RibbonRibbons learning curve is anti-productiveWhen I bought a new computer at the end of January, it came with a trial edition of Office 2007. After trying to use Word briefly, I immediately installed my Office 2003 on the system. I use office every...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-18
- Motorola Razr V3xx (platinum)
- Photo gallery:Motorola Razr V3xxThe carrier that brought you the very first Razr cell phone is now bringing yet another one (yes, another one) to the market. The Motorola Razr V3xx for Cingular Wireless (soon to be AT&T) doesn't bring anything particularly revolutionary to the Razr family but it does include...
- Product reviews 2007-04-20
- 2007 Mercedes-Benz SL550
- There are a number of wrappers for Mercedes Benz's all-aluminum 5.5-liter V-8 engine: the flagship 2007 Mercedes Benz S550 relies on the 382-horsepower plant to get from private airport to movie premiere to golf club parking lot; the 2007 E550 relies on the engine to get down the autobahn at...
- Product reviews 2007-03-19
- Motorola Razr V3xx (Gold)
- The carrier that brought you the very first Razr cell phone is now bringing yet another one (yes, another one) to the market. The Motorola Razr V3xx for Cingular Wireless (soon to be AT&T) doesn't bring anything particularly revolutionary to the Razr family but it does include a handful of...
- Product reviews 2007-03-08
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