The live page format offers short-form updates related to big stories as they unfold, for example on stories like the Budget and global news events.

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Along the bottom are buttons for brightness (which only appears if you've got the light turned on), page progress (via a slider), text format and additional features.

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Presenting your RSS feeds and social media links in a magazine-style format, Flipboard still makes for a fascinating reading experience, with page tuning and differing layouts keeping the reader engaged.

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It searched the computer in much the same way it would a Web page, and displayed the results in a Web browser-like format.

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If you need to change these colors later, make sure you're in Page Layout view, right-click the text, and select Format WordArt from the menu.

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PitchSites is a one-page website that includes facts and information in a visual story-telling format that includes photos, videos, links and customer references.

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The company, later renamed Beatnik, developed RMF (Rich Music Format), a file type with a small footprint that brings synthesized sounds to a web page.

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