Mr. Dell's notes, sent late the night he received the machine, included his thoughts on the Styrofoam used to package the computer.

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You could also look into purchasing a tax software package to load onto your computer.

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We also work with a lot of companies where computer glasses are already built into their benefits package.

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If a package needs a shipping label, the computer orders one via Bluetooth from a portable printer.

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Maya is a monster animation software package most commonly associated with "industrial strength" motion picture computer animation.

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You can also purchase a software package that will do screen captures of anything that has taken place on a computer during a given period of time.

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In fact, a colleague and I published a paper just last year describing how to do this, and we released a free software package that allows anyone to test their BRCA genes at home on a desktop computer.

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FedEx equips package sorters with scanners built into a ring on their finger, which communicate wirelessly with a computer on their waist, itself in contact with a central computer, keeping tracking information up-to-the-minute accurate.

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