Effects plug-ins work within your sequencer program, and--as I'll explain shortly--several different plug-in formats exist.

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That is, you can plug disk drives into the slots and then everything seems to work.

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The larger issue, however, is the dozens of applications and web sites that plug into Twitter to allow users to manage their messages will work kind of like, but not exactly like, Twitter.com, at least for a while.

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But Facebook, of course, maintains that this is all ultimately good for the Internet and everyone on it, and that it's in everyone's best interest to jump on board: A post Tuesday on the Facebook developer blog explains that the new "social plug-ins" are now implemented on over 100, 000 sites, and that they work.

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He scoured the world for the perfect battery technology (a combination of lightweight and long charging), added a solar panel for those without plug-in electricity recharge options, leveraged local university engineering talent to make it all work, and delivered a truly silent generator that can run a full size refrigerator for over a day if the power goes down.

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