Abstract: Facilitating date selection by a user includes presenting the user with a single timeline band, causing the band to change granularity of date increments in response to the user zooming in and zooming out on the band, causing the band to present different dates based on band positioning initiated by the user, and allowing selection by the user of a date that is presented on the band to the user. The band may show less granular date increments in response to the user zooming in on the band and the band may show more granular date increments in response to the user zooming out on the band. In response to zooming in, a date presented to the user in connection with a less granular view of the band may become part of the date selected by the user.

Abstract: Accessing objects on a multi-touch screen includes presenting, on the multi-touch screen, a first set of items corresponding to a subset of the objects that is less than all of the objects, where the multi-touch screen has a first direction and has a second direction that is substantially orthogonal to the first direction and includes a user causing a second set of items, corresponding to a different subset of the objects than the first set, to become viewable on the multi-touch screen using gestures corresponding to the first and second directions, where at least some of the gestures corresponding to the first direction are different than gestures corresponding to the second direction. The items may correspond to at least one attribute of at least some of the objects. Presenting a first subset of items may include showing icons, windows, markers, and/or shapes.