Word: onscreen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trying to help the little yellow gizmo I've hooked up to my notebook computer get a fix on my latitude and longitude using signals from a network of global-positioning satellites. Since the signals can't travel through walls, I'm stuck outside. Finally, a message pops up onscreen: "No GPS receiver has been detected." Grrr...
...likely to inspire dread in the millions of parents whose VCRs flash "12:00...12:00...12:00." At the demonstration I attended, a representative of the Consumer Electronic Manufacturers Association pointed his remote at a TV and entered a series of numbers and commands, prompted by an onscreen menu, successfully blocking As the World Turns. Parents, he said, will select a secret access code to change the settings. In an ideal world, the V chip would make Mom and Dad confident that little Suzi's slumber-party guests aren't watching blue movies. In the world I live...
...communications port and, with the help of Cye's Map-N-Zap software, beams instructions to the robot. Before heading out on an excursion, Cye must be placed on a "home base," an electric pad that doubles as a recharger and orientation point. By dragging your mouse across an onscreen grid--and creating a series of checkpoints at which Cye stops to get his bearings--you chart a route...
...star and role, as Marilyn deliriously embodies author Anita Loos' seminal, shame-free gold digger. Lorelei's honey-voiced, pixilated charm may be best expressed by her line, regarding one of her sugar daddies, "Sometimes Mr. Esmond finds it very difficult to say no to me." Whenever Lorelei appears onscreen, undulating in second-skin, cleavage-proud knitwear or the sheerest orange chiffon, all heads turn, salivate and explode. Who but Marilyn could so effortlessly justify such luscious insanity? She is the absolute triumph of political incorrectness. When she swivels aboard a cruise ship in clinging jersey and a floor-length...
...Larry Sanders reruns and relieved that although the program airs inconveniently at suppertime, the DISHPlayer gives me a choice of two different ways to eat my cake and have my Larry too: I can record the show on my old VCR by simply pointing and clicking at a weekly, onscreen program guide. Or--this is an especially cool feature--I can pause the program (or even a live event) for up to half an hour by storing it on the DISHPlayer's capacious hard drive...