Abstract: An icon-centric enterprise management system comprises a presentation environment characterized by user-defined icons that include menu icons, action icons and icons that reveal content. Icons are designed by the user and are inserted into the system hierarchy by means of an insertion-enabling icon that is revealed only to users authorized to modify the hierarchy. An instance management database enables the handling of different organizational customers' instances of enterprise content and individual instances databases and instances file repositories comprise the icon records of the design and user-defined functionality for the various icons in the hierarchy.

Abstract: A user input device for communicating a user input to a computer. The user input device includes a user input detecting element and a kinetic energy converting device. The user input detecting element detects a user input. The kinetic energy converting device converts kinetic energy supplied to the user input device by a user to electrical energy. The electrical energy from the kinetic energy converting device is used to communicate a user input detected by the user input detecting element to the computer and/or charge a battery of the user input device and/or a system battery of the computer.