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(jargon)window shopping - A term used among users of WIMP environments like the X Window System or the Macintosh at the US Geological Survey for extended experimentation with new window colours, fonts, and icon shapes. This activity can take up hours of what might otherwise have been productive working time. "I spent the afternoon window shopping until I found the coolest shade of green for my active window borders --- now they perfectly match my medium slate blue background." Serious window shoppers will spend their days with bitmap editors, creating new and different icons and background patterns for all to see. Also: "window dressing", the act of applying new fonts, colours, etc.

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Among activities like attending Mass at Santa Rosa Church on Workman Street, Sunday afternoon cruising on Laurel Canyon Boulevard and window shopping at the San Fernando Mall, you also have picking up masa (corn dough) at Carrillo's Tortilleria and Mexican Delicatessen to make tortillas or tamales.
BUSINESS KEEPS AUTHENTIC TASTE by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
She then provides a season-by-season description of her favorite activities, including apple picking upstate, window shopping on Fifth Avenue at Christmas, bicycling to Prospect Park in the spring, and watching Fourth of July fireworks from her roof.
Mari Takabayashi: I Live in Brooklyn by Brabander, Jennifer M. / The Horn Book Magazine
Hemmed in on all sides by low-rise buildings, the forecourt provides a breathing space for meeting, socializing and window shopping.
Under the net: wrapped in a crystalline grid, this new store in Tokyo ... by Chow, Phoebe / The Architectural Review
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