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  • There's a "windowshade" that you can pull down on the G1 to retrieve an ongoing instant message conversation.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets 2008

  • One of my favorite things to do with my interactive whiteboard was to use the windowshade tool to cover up the question, leaving only the multiple choice answers.

    2009 January | BrainPOP Educators 2009

  • The Citgo sign, rolling up and down like a windowshade

    Spring Cleaning for Poets Con Chapman 2011

  • One of my favorite things to do with my interactive whiteboard was to use the windowshade tool to cover up the question, leaving only the multiple choice answers.

    BrainPOP Test Prep Strategies - Multiple Choice Quiz | BrainPOP Educators 2009

  • Whenever history enters the novels, it's like a windowshade snapping up, flashing a spike of bright light through the dreary pubs, and showing us that we have been watching something more complicated than the regulars drinking too much and hurting themselves and each other.

    Giddy & Malevolent Prose, Francine 2008

  • Click the bubble, and a transparent windowshade comes down over the current page, showing all the inbound links to that page that Technorati has recently indexed.

    Boing Boing: July 3, 2005 - July 9, 2005 Archives 2005

  • The star isn't the windowshade-eyed "Guide"/Host Yvette Fielding, who always seems to be hearing something and has mastered the eyebrow raise, head cock that signals such.

    Mysterious and Ooky 2006

  • The star isn't the windowshade-eyed "Guide"/Host Yvette Fielding, who always seems to be hearing something and has mastered the eyebrow raise, head cock that signals such.

    Mysterious and Ooky 2006

  • The star isn't the windowshade-eyed "Guide"/Host Yvette Fielding, who always seems to be hearing something and has mastered the eyebrow raise, head cock that signals such.

    January 2006 2006

  • And I don't mean the usual "Ow you poked the corner" bump; I'm talking "I felt the edge of her fingernail slide underneath my eyelid, skitter harmlessly across the sclera, and felt the eyelid stretch open and then snap shut like a windowshade when she finally pulled it out."

    Three Random Thoughts Before I Fling Myself Into Work 2004

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