And we always have been in a support mode for both sides.

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In difficult times it's always easy to retreat into survival mode.

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We always like discovering businesses that go against the grain, and Mode-sty caught our attention because of its refusal to accept the status quo in the fashion world.

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Finish, an app brilliantly named for the person always adding to their to-do list or in procrastination mode, was built, iterated, and shipped in less than a year by young Colorado natives Ryan Orbuch and Michael Hansen.

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"One always falls into the trap of going into the straight-replacement mode, " he says.

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Software developers in the meantime are hoping Apple will start allowing applications, like instant messaging, that are always running in the background even when the phone is in sleep mode or being used for something else.

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Modders have already enabled single-player mode for the game (or, rather, disabled always-online.) In fact, it appears that the game could run in a very similar fashion with a very similar vision while offline in single-player.

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More importantly, in Chrome Google is assuming we are always online, that connection is the norm, and that we will default to productivity in that mode.

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