Word: tinkered
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While Wall Street types master the universe on their BlackBerries and geeks tinker with their Treos, urban hipsters, students and celebrities like Paris Hilton have flocked to the more laid-back T-Mobile Sidekick. First released in 2002, it was a combination cell phone and e-mail device that was easier to use than most handhelds because of a unique horizontal design that allowed maximum space for its keyboard...
...August 1991, a student at the University of Helsinki posted a request to an Internet discussion group asking for help on a project to build a free computer operating system (OS). Linus Torvalds wanted an OS that he could tinker with. But neither Apple nor Microsoft was much interested in giving away the codes that make their machines...
...sense is that this review is more of an effort to tinker or modernize rather than to revolutionize,” Lieberman writes in an e-mail...
...following month’s meeting, Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs John H. Coatsworth encouraged his colleagues to keep an open mind throughout the review process. “We will have missed a huge opportunity if all we do is tinker,” he said. “We don’t get to do this that often...
...good chance to have a relaxed round of golf,” Klein said. “It allowed all of us to tinker with the swing a little...