Broadband, too, has played its part, enabling people to fritter away hours on their home computers scrolling through dating profiles.
Switching between home screens, scrolling within the browser, and pinch-to-zoom commands within the image gallery were all as smooth and snappy as I had hoped.
It increases our sense of being "busy" and we may be less likely to make dinner or brunch plans because we've gotten too comfortable being at home and scrolling through our newsfeeds without actually having to interact (or wear pants!).
On the home screen, scrolling right should reveal the Friends hub.
Go back to the Google Plus starting page, click on "Home" and scroll down to "Photos".
To cut those back, hit the gear button on the home page, scroll down to Settings, then hit the Email Notifications tab and choose which of the 16 or more types of e-mail from Twitter that you no longer want to receive.
But wait until you get home to scroll through the various crappy built-in tones, the factory installed one will work fine until you get there.
While on the home page, scroll down to the end and click on the link labeled "Start Live Chat".
Sitting home at night scrolling through online profiles can sometimes feel like the 21st-century equivalent of sitting in a bar alone, hoping to score.
The home screen — a scrolling "carousel" of icons representing the most recently viewed videos, books, apps and so on — now moves fluidly, with just the right amount of animated momentum.
Specifically, five dimensions of usability emerged as key to the prediction of overall usability of the website: hardware and software, home page, screen, scrolling and paging, and user experience.
