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n. (plural of sticky English)
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Stickies is an application for Apple Macintosh computers that puts Post-it note-like windows on the screen, for the user to write short reminders, notes and other clippings. Contents are automatically stored, and restored when the application is restarted. There is also an unrelated freeware program with the same name and functionality for computers running under Microsoft Windows.
The first version of Stickies was written by Apple employee Jens Alfke and included in System 7.5 in 1994. Alfke originally developed it in his free time as Antler Notes and intended to release it as shareware doing business as Antler Software; Apple planned to acquire it from him, but realized that they already legally owned it under the terms of his employment. During the transition to OS X, it was rewritten in Cocoa, and is still included in OS X, now with features such as transparent notes, styled text and the ability to embed pictures in notes.
A feature-reduced version of Stickies is included with Dashboard as a widget since OS X v10.4. An updated version of Stickies ( Core Data Stickies) was included in the Xcode developer examples in OS X Tiger.
Similar applications (described as " desktop notes") are available for most operating systems.
Stickies may refer to:
- A shortened form of sticky notes
- Stickies (software), a Macintosh note-taking application
- Stickies (papermaking), tacky substances that causes deposits in papermaking, especially in deinking
- Stickies, nickname of the Official Irish Republican Army
- Stickies, Australian nickname for dessert wines
When recycling post-consumer paper, stickies are tacky substances contained in the paper pulp and process water systems of paper machines. Stickies have the potential to contaminate the components either within or around the equipment necessary in the Stages of Manufacturing that a Paper Mill follows in its Developed Process, but would have otherwise excluded it in its routine cleaning and maintenance procedures. Contaminations of paper that are classified as tacky are also called stickies. The main sources for stickies are recycled paper, waxes, and soft adhesives.
Usage examples of "stickies".
At point-blank range, in the close confines of the chamber, the high-velocity, full-metal-jacket slugs would undoubtedly drill through the stickies and hit either his companions or the armaglass walls.
The stickies shrieked under the rain of heavy but indifferently aimed blows.
The sudden, complete loss of blood pressure to their brains dropped the stickies where they stood.
Trapped in a mutant dream-body, he had recognized his fellow stickies by the distinctive scent they left behind.
No one had to spell out the danger: if the stickies got above them, the creatures had the tactical advantage.
And as it climbed, more stickies poured up through the open hatch onto the roof, scrambling over the blast-ripped bodies of their fellow muties.
With the precision that comes from much practice, Ryan, Krysty and the others moved around the stored vehicles, sweeping for stickies in hiding.
Ryan had no doubt that the road, overgrown as it was with grass shoots as sharp as steel needles, pierced and cracked by stunted, thorny trees tough enough to survive the acid fall, had been unrecognizable before the stickies had taken that route.
They had encountered no stickies en route and had seen no sign of human refugees, either.
Stayed there until the stickies started tearing down the huts and burning them.
If it left them somewhat vulnerable, it also meant that the stickies would be visible from a long way off.
Everything the stickies had done so far indicated that they were moving in a single, cohesive unit, for some well-defined purpose.
And on top of that, stickies seemed to have unusually short attention spans.
The closer they got to the mass of stickies, the clearer the strange sound became.
Though the mutie leader towered over the stickies, a better gauge of scale for Ryan was the M-60 machine gun he held easily in one fist, like a handblaster.