You can only trim shots and extract stills from that latter mode, but paired with the newer generation EasyShare functionality that lets you pre-assign photos and videos for upload to YouTube and Facebook, among other services, you can almost completely avoid using your computer as anything but a dumb pipe to the internet.

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Such firms are not using buybacks to distribute profits but to avoid diluting existing shareholders when they grant employees options on new shares.

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But it's one of the disability words that I choose to avoid using in that way, like its linguistic friend "psycho".

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From here you can take shots using the phone as a trigger (which is how I'm mainly using it) to avoid those self-portrait reflections, but there's a stack of other options that many will find useful.

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The authority had planned to start the project using existing planning approval but has now decided to submit a new application to avoid further delays to the scheme.

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This may seem counter-intuitive but the whole point of the gift tax is to prevent people from using lifetime gifts to avoid paying the estate tax.

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Companies like Unisys, Sprint and HP are creating social media training programs to avoid these types of social media crises, but also, just as importantly, to show employees how using social media can be a valuable business tool which can increase their performance and productivity.

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But tax revenues tend to nosedive during slumps, so using them as a proxy for the size of government can avoid that pitfall.

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