"browser, due to Internet Explorer's declining popularity as well as the emergence of other browsers such as Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Cnet's Bonnie Burton reviewed Inori positively, saying ""she's is a sassy girl who fights robots, dresses like a sexy otaku girl, and pets her cat while surfing the Net. She's the kind of girl you want hanging around your computer"", and compared her to Clippy, the ""annoying Office Assistant"" attached to earlier versions of Microsoft Office. They also claimed that ""she represents a shift in thinking about what IE's image could become"", and wished that her role could"
"example for the latter is the well-known, but highly unpopular Clippy. This animated paperclip popped up whenever users typed a certain word or term in Microsoft Office. Clippy was often seen as annoying and removed by Microsoft in 2007. A new generation of virtual assistants, like Microsoft's Cortana uses smarter methods of assessing when and how to offer what help. Help options can appear for instance after a pre-defined time of inaction between two usually connected process-steps, instead of popping up whenever a certain word is typed. The boundary between online-help from advanced virtual assistants like Microsoft's Cortana or Apple's"
"animated character called ""Pipey"", clearly based on Microsoft's Clippit, provides help to users of the Pied Piper platform. After featuring Clippit's tomb in a movie to promote Office 2010, the character was relaunched as the main character of the game ""Ribbon Hero 2"", which is an interactive tutorial released by Microsoft in 2011. In the game, Clippy needs a new job and accidentally goes inside a time machine, travelling to different ages solving problems with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Other Office Assistant names are also featured during the ""Future Age"" as planets of the future solar system. In ""Search"
"Assistant (partly because in many cases the setup CD was required to install the other assistants), which also led to it being called simply the Microsoft Paperclip. The original Clippit in Office 97 was given a new look in Office 2000. The feature drew a strongly negative response from many users. Microsoft turned off the feature by default in Office XP, acknowledging its unpopularity in an ad campaign spoofing Clippy. The feature was removed altogether in Office 2007 and Office 2008 for Mac, as it continued to draw criticism even from Microsoft employees. The default assistant Clippit has been heavily"
"software - a version of the vi text editor featuring a rough-sketched Clippit. On April 1, 2014, Clippit appeared as an Office assistant in Office Online as part of an April Fools' Day joke. Several days later, an easter egg was found in the then-preview version of Windows Phone 8.1. When asked if she likes Clippit, the personal assistant Cortana would answer ""Definitely. He taught me how important it is to listen."" or ""What's not to like? That guy took a heck of a beating and he's still smiling."" Her avatar occasionally turned into a two-dimensional Metro-style Clippit for several"
"Ribbon Hero 2 Ribbon Hero 2: Clippy's Second Chance, or just Ribbon Hero 2, is a video game developed by Microsoft Office Labs. The game is available as a free download and serves to educate users of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote in Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010 how to use the ribbon interface. It is a sequel to ""Ribbon Hero"". Clippy, one of the Office Assistants which were included in Microsoft Office 97 through 2003, is looking for a part-time job and requires help with his resume. However, he enters a time machine and is taken to several"
"animation sequences. In a paper presented at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in 1997, Tandy discussed how to create conversational interfaces for interactive agents. It was later used by the Office team to support the Office Assistant and replace the original Microsoft Bob code that had been used. However, the Office team created their own set of characters including the infamous Clippit (aka ""Clippy""). Microsoft Agent was also included in the user registration component of Windows ME and featured in a number of Microsoft Research projects as well as third-party applications and websites. The code was"
"to appear with the message, """"It looks like you're writing a letter. Would you like help?"""". Apart from Clippit, other Office Assistants were also available: In many cases the Office installation CD was necessary to activate a different Office assistant character, so the default character, Clippit, remains widely known compared to other Office Assistants. In Office 2000, the ""Hoverbot"", ""Scribble"" and ""Power Pup"" assistants were replaced by: The Clippit and Office Logo assistants were also redesigned. The removed assistants later resurfaced as downloadable add-ons. The Microsoft Office XP Multilingual Pack had two more assistants, , an animated secretary, and a"
"were available for the Alpha.) Two service releases (SR-1 and SR-2) were released for Office 97. SR-2 solved the year 2000 problem in Office 97. Microsoft Office 97 is the first version of Office to feature the Office Assistant, a feature designed to assist users by the way of an interactive animated character, which interfaced with the Office help content. The default assistant was ""Clippit"", nicknamed ""Clippy"", a paperclip. The office assistant feature was also included in its successor, Microsoft Office 2000, as well as in Office XP (hidden by default) and 2003 (not installed by default). Office 97 is"
"Crimpy Crimpy was a British manufacturer of potato crisps and packers of ""Blue Lagoon"" nuts and raisins. It had factories in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire and Winnersh in Wokingham (near Reading, Berkshire). The company was later acquired by Frito-Lay of America (a subsidiary of PepsiCo) and both factories subsequently closed down. The Airdrie site was located in Cairnhill Road. The Winnersh site was located at the Winnersh Crossroads (on the corner of Reading Road and King Street Lane). It was operational between the 1950s and the 1970s. The site later served as the United Kingdom Customer Support headquarters of Hewlett-Packard until"
"Microsoft's internal codename TFC had a derogatory origin: Steven Sinofsky states that ""C"" stood for ""clown"", while allowing his readers to guess what ""TF"" might stand for. ""Smithsonian Magazine"" called Clippit ""one of the worst software design blunders in the annals of computing"". ""Time"" magazine included Clippit in a 2010 article listing the fifty worst inventions. In July 2000, the online comic strip ""User Friendly"" ran a series of panels featuring Clippit. In 2001, a Microsoft advertising campaign for Office XP included the (now defunct) website ""officeclippy.com"", which highlighted the disabling of Clippit in the software. It featured the animated"
"opening the Office Assistant (""Clippy"") or Office Help. Additionally, Office Help has been updated to aggregate and display content from the Internet in response to a query. The Office Assistant is now disabled by default and only appears when Help is activated. The component products were packaged together in various suites. Some of these editions were available as retail packages in either ""full"" or ""upgrade"" versions, others as full OEM versions for inclusion with new PCs, and still others as volume license versions that required no activation. All editions provided the core components of Word, Excel, and Outlook, and all"
"Yopy The Yopy was the name of a series of Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) made by GMate Corporation, also used as a popular PDA Phone in Korea and based on the Linux operating system. The Linux Documentation Project considers the Yopy series to be ""true Linux PDAs"" because their manufacturers install Linux-based operating systems on them by default. At the CeBIT 2000, GMate introduced the YDK1000, the Yopy Development Kit. Without a physical keyboard this device looked very different from later versions. It came with an embedded Linux operating system and the W Window System. Later also precompiled versions of"
"adventures of Clippit (voiced by comedian Gilbert Gottfried) as he learned to cope with unemployment (""X… XP… As in, ex-paperclip?!"") and parodied behaviors of the Office assistant. Curiously, one of these (""Clippy Faces Facts"") uses the same punchline as one of the User Friendly comic strips. These videos can be downloaded from Microsoft's website as self-contained Flash Player executables. Clippit ends up in an office as a floppy disk ejecting pin. There is a Clippit parody in the ""Plus! Dancer"" application included in Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition which is later included as ""Windows Dancer"" in Windows XP Media Center"
"MacCharlie The MacCharlie was a hardware add-on for the Apple Macintosh that was made by Dayna Communications. The name refers to an IBM PC advertising campaign of the time featuring Charlie Chaplin's ""Little Tramp"" character. It allowed users to run DOS software for the IBM PC by clipping on a unit to the chassis of the 128K Macintosh, as well as a keyboard extender to provide the function keys and numeric keypad that were absent from Apple's original keyboard. The clip-on unit sat to the side of the Mac and, like the contemporary Amiga Sidecar, contained essentially a complete IBM"
"seconds. This easter egg is still available in the full release version of the Windows Phone operating system and Windows 10. On April 1, 2015, Tumblr created a parody of Clippit, Coppy, as an April Fools joke. Coppy is an anthropomorphized photocopier that behaved in similar ways to Clippit, asking the user if they want help. Coppy would engage the reader in a series of pointless questions, with a dialogue box written in Comic Sans MS, deliberately designed to be extremely annoying. In the ninth episode of Season 3 of HBO's ""Silicon Valley"", originally aired in June, 2016, a new"
"version of the Monkey King () for Asian language users in non-Asian Office versions. Native language versions provided additional representations, such as Kairu the dolphin in Japanese. A small image of Clippit can be found in Office 2013 or newer, which could be enabled by going to Options and changing the theme to ""School Supplies"". Clippit would then appear on the ribbon. The Office Assistant used technology initially from Microsoft Bob and later Microsoft Agent, offering advice based on Bayesian algorithms. From Office 2000 onwards, Microsoft Agent (.acs) replaced the Microsoft Bob-descended Actor (.act) format as the technology supporting the"
"portrays a clip joint. Other films featuring clip joints include ""Manpower"", ""Lullaby of Broadway"" and ""The Asphalt Jungle"". ""The Fabulous Clipjoint"" is the first novel by science fiction and mystery writer Fredric Brown. In the video game ""Cuphead"", one of the earlier boss battles takes place in a clip joint. The title of the stage is ""Clip Joint Calamity"". Clip joint A clip joint or fleshpot is an establishment, usually a strip club or night club (often claiming to offer adult entertainment or bottle service) in which customers are tricked into paying excessive amounts of money, for surprisingly low-grade goods"
"Slippy Toad Slippy first appeared in the 1993 game ""Star Fox"". Since then, he has appeared in multiple ""Star Fox"" games. Reception to the character has been generally negative, with video game reviewers criticizing mainly his voice and appearance, which led Slippy to be included in several lists of the most annoying video game characters. On other hand, some reviewers praised Slippy for being a cute character. The name ""Slippy"" in his name is a colloquial name to ""Slippery"" that was chosen by Dylan Cuthbert in order to represent his ""clumsy nature"". The original four members of the Star Fox"
"several clipboards into one ""Main Category"" clipboard. Syncboards are synchronized clipboards that multiple users can access and add to, in order to work collaboratively. The company’s ""Price Drop Alert"" allows users to name the price they’d like to pay for any item that is sold online. Once a ""Price Drop Alert"" is set, Clipix notifies the user when an item has been discounted to his or her preferred price. The Clipix app for iPad, iPhone, and Android synchronizes with the Clipix web interface. Clipix is often compared to Pinterest, a similar tool. Clipix Clipix is a privately funded company offering"
"Edition 2005. The dancing character Boo Who? is wearing a ghost outfit, roughly having the shape of Clippit's body, with a piece of wire visible underneath. Occasionally, the white sheet slips, and reveals the thin curve of steel. The description mentions ""working for a short while for a Redmond, WA based software company, where he continued to work until being retired in 2001"". Clippit is also included as a player character in ""Microsoft Bicycle Card Games"" and ""Microsoft Bicycle Board Games"". It was also used in the ""Word Crimes"" music video by ""Weird Al"" Yankovic. Vigor is a Clippit-inspired parody"
"Amapi Amapi was a 3D modeler created by Yonowat S.A. that incorporates both polygonal modeling and NURBS surface modeling. Amapi was used to create models for industrial design, architecture, interior design, furniture, exhibit design, packaging, bottling, illustration, video games and multimedia. The name of both the company and the software originate from a common saying by the cartoon character Droopy: ""You know what? I'm happy."". Amapi offered an original interface compared to other contemporary modeling software. The software divided modeling into three main activities: construction, modeling, and assembly. Switching between these three activities was accomplished by swiping the cursor against"
"Inc.'s Snappy."" Play's next consumer-oriented product was Gizmos, a suite of utilities, games and multimedia software for Windows personal computers. ""PC Magazine"" said Gizmos was one of the ""Best Products of 1998"". Play created Trinity as the next-generation Video Toaster for the Windows personal computer platform. Trinity included real-time 3D video effects, digital component video switcher, chroma-keyer, still and video clip store, character generator, paint system, and non-linear video editor. After several lengthy delays, Trinity shipped in August 1998 to wide critical acclaim. To many in the industry, Trinity became the logical successor to the Video Toaster. Play also acquired"
"Search Appliance (GSA) replacement to market after Google announced it was sunsetting the GSA and capitalize on the $500M revenue from the GSA. 2017 Yippy, Inc. (YIPI) to Support Globalstar's (GSAT) Software Services Initiative to Market the Worldwide Distribution of Yippy's Data Compression Software and Associated Technologies. Yippy received ""Welcome to your Data"" as a registered trademark with the USPTO. Yippy Yippy (formerly Clusty) is a metasearch engine developed by Vivísimo before Vivisimo was later acquired by IBM and renamed IBM Watson Explorer which offers clusters of results. Clusty was developed by Vivísimo. Vivísimo was a company built on Web"
"Nippy A nippy was a waitress who worked in the J. Lyons & Co tea shops and cafés in London. Beginning in the late 19th century, a J. Lyons waitress was called a ""Gladys"". From 1926, because the waitresses nipped (moved quickly) around the tea shops, the term ""Nippy"" came into use. Nippies wore a distinctive maid-like uniform with a matching hat. By the 1920s it was already long established in the advertising world that attractive females could sell products, and the tea business of J. Lyons & Co was no exception. Nippies appeared in all manner of advertising, on"
"their own allowance; ones that converted into backpacks, such as ""Escape car"". There were also a number of helicopter variations, a variety of one-man, six-wheeler ""power hogs"", an ""Avenger Pursuit"" multi-function vehicle, and a ""Big Trapper"" vehicle offered around the same time as the introduction of the ""Intruder"" figures. The military jeep was brought back, but was of the blow-mold construction typically associated with imitation products. G.I. Joe Adventure Team G.I. Joe Adventure Team is a line of action figures produced by the toy company Hasbro. The line is well remembered by the inclusion of features such as ""Kung-Fu Grip"","
"Slippery Nipple #3 Slippery Nipple #4 (Buttery Nipple) Slippery Nipple #5 Slippery Nipple #6 Slippery nipple The Slippery Nipple is a layered cocktail shooter invented by Lucas Lando Klausen and most commonly composed of Baileys Irish Cream and Sambuca. When prepared properly, the ingredients remain in two distinct visible layers due to the relative densities of the ingredients. Lucas Lando Klausen concocted the slippery nipple and named it in the 1980s during a period of renewed popularity of cocktails and mixed drinks. Lucas Lando Klausen was criticized by ""New York Times"" writer William Grimes as ""the leader of a kind"
"Clip (compiler) Clip compiler is a compiler for Clipper programming language with additional features and libraries (for gtk, fivewin, netto, MySQL, ODBC, cti, tcp, gzip, Interbase, Oracle, Postgres), which is quite fast, has support for Hyper-Six and FoxPro RDD's, and can compile existing Clipper source code with very minor changes. It has support for all the features in the original compiler, can access multiple types of databases such as Oracle, Informix, Interbase, MySQL, Postgres, all Xbase dialects (tables: Foxpro, Visual FoxPro, COMIX, indexes: NDX,NTX,CDX,) It supports object-oriented programming, preprocessor, dynamic and static libraries, several functions for math, string management, arrays"
"appeared in the Intelligent Computer Assisted Instruction (ICAI, aka. intelligent tutoring systems) community, which arose in the 1960s and 1970s and become popular (among academics) in the 1980s. Also, in the early 1980s, as expert systems took hold in the AI community, expert systems were applied to UIs (e.g., the aptly-named ""WIZARD"" system). More recent IUIs, such as Clippy, were more statistically-based, using machine learning methods to decide how to tune the interactive experience to the individual user. What constitutes ""intelligent"" is potentially disputable, as is what counts as an ""interface"", but an easy way to make this distinction is"
"selling the Yopy PDA, and has closed down its official web sites. Using the Linux operating system, the Yopy became capable of running a variety of open source software. Some developers are using software they compile on their own. f I have no clue who I want a relationship is Yopy The Yopy was the name of a series of Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) made by GMate Corporation, also used as a popular PDA Phone in Korea and based on the Linux operating system. The Linux Documentation Project considers the Yopy series to be ""true Linux PDAs"" because their manufacturers"
"by Nestlé, though the ellipse was red and the text white. The US version of ""Kit Kat Chunky"" is known as ""Big Kat"". In the United Kingdom, the product was traditionally wrapped in silver foil and an outer paper band. In 2001 this was changed to flow wrap plastic. Foil and paper wrapping is still used for Kit-Kats sold as part of a multipack. After launching in the 1930s, Rowntree's Chocolate Crisp was originally advertised as ""the biggest little meal"" and ""the best companion to a cup of tea"". During World War II, Kit Kat was depicted as a valuable"
"the screen to facilitate quick access to them; new document collaboration capabilities, support for MSN Groups and SharePoint; and integrated handwriting recognition and speech recognition capabilities. With Office XP, Microsoft incorporated several features to address reliability issues observed in previous versions of Office. Office XP also introduces separate Document Imaging, Document Scanning, and Clip Organizer applications. The Office Assistant (commonly known as ""Clippy""), which was introduced in Office 97 and widely reviled by users, is disabled by default in Office XP; this change was a key element of Microsoft's promotional campaign for Office XP. Office XP is incompatible with Windows"
"at MIT, wrote a follow-up article in response to the revival of this debate, arguing that mandated government access to private conversations would be an even worse problem now than twenty years ago. Clipper chip The Clipper chip was a chipset that was developed and promoted by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) as an encryption device that secured “voice and data messages"" with a built-in backdoor. It was intended to be adopted by telecommunications companies for voice transmission. It can encipher and decipher messages. It was part of a Clinton Administration program to “allow Federal, State, and local"