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From afar they may appear as clouds or odd underwater formations, but as you continue to double-tap and zoom in it becomes clear that these are lonely tracts of paradise you're looking at.
A Digital Odyssey Kevin Sintumuang 2011
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Then I double-tap the home screen as before, hit play, and unlock the phone.
From The Tips Box: iPhone Videos, Hard Drive Sleeves, Alarm Clocks | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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If you prefer, edit the Home button's function in Settings so when you double-tap the Home button it takes you right to your music playlists.
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Just double-tap or tap-and-hold a bit of text to bring up your copy context menu, adjust the start and end points of the text you want to cut or copy, then tap the Copy/Cut button to finish the job.
Hands On With iPhone 3.0′s Best New Features | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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And if you accidentally double-tap the top left corner of the touchpad, the entire thing shuts off--with no advisory of what happened besides the dimming of an unlabeled LED in that spot.
Motorola Atrix 'LapDock': smartphone plus laptop minus design smarts 2011
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Minh Tran's app will deliver your phone's GPS coordinates to the appropriate transportation department when you give your device a double-tap with your finger, after you confirm by e-mail that the coordinates correspond to the location of the pothole in question.
Va. man develops pothole app Washington Post editors 2011
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If a call comes in, press the button once to answer or double-tap to send the call right to voicemail.
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Press again to pause the track or double-tap to skip to the next song.
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And if you accidentally double-tap the top left corner of the touchpad, the entire thing shuts off--with no advisory of what happened besides the dimming of an unlabeled LED in that spot.
Faster Foward: Motorola Atrix 'LapDock' is smartphone plus laptop minus design smarts 2011
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Calculations are also done with taps, and when you double-tap, a numeric data-entry keyboard pops up, or you can call up a formula/function keypad, text, or others. —
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