She researched photo restoration techniques on the Internet and spent weeks rinsing the muck-covered images and album pages under cold water and laying them to dry on paper towels.

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Developers can also break apart some applications, like Gmail, to easily change look and layout on different tablets (think of it as a marriage of programming in modules and graphic templates.) There is a good 3-D capability, so scrolling YouTube galleries, looking at album art or turning the pages of ebooks looks good.

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Twitter feeds, Facebook pages, MySpace profiles and Flickr, an online photo album, will be on offer as well as YouTube.

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The box set, which weighs a little under 10 pounds, features its 33 DVDs and CDs (yes, the show's soundtrack albums are included) comfortably ensconced in heavy cardboard black pages and comes complete with an episode guide, collector's album and video extras.

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