When the camera's completely switched off, hit the power button and you'll go straight into camera mode which lets you shoot immediately, then about half a minute later the interface seamlessly goes back to smart mode, which is when you can hit the back or home button to toggle the Android unlock screen (though we'd rather go straight into the home screen).

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Stocks were in rally mode beginning in the second half of the year in anticipation of QE3, which was announced by the FOMC on September 13.

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The RackMac mini Xserver supports one half-length, x16 (x4 mode), PCIe 2.0 card to enable the use of professional video capture cards, 8Gb Fibre Channel cards, 10-Gigabit Ethernet cards, and RAID controller cards with a racked Mac mini all in 1U rack space.

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Being the filthy non-purists that we are, we're most excited by the camera's 720p video mode, which offers decently fast autofocus with a half press of the shutter button, and zero jelly vision to worry about.

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During most of her journey, Chen's train was only half full, but that hasn't dampened her enthusiasm for her favorite mode of transportation.

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The social curation site entered into open beta mode in March 2010 and began to gain traction in the second half of 2011.

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Intel is currently shipping its single mode 4G LTE data solution and will begin multimode shipments later in the first half of this year.

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And although the IrisPen's graphics mode lets you capture bit-map images, its narrow lens restricts it to a series of half-inch bands -- and you can't stitch a series of scans together.

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