This provides users access to all the settings and functions of the system from their home computer.

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And for those just learning the art of photography, a Help Button will provide simple explanations of camera settings and functions.

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Your furnace or hot water heater functions exactly as it always has coming on and going off in response to thermostat settings.

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It incorporates functions such as a loupe, exposure picker, print, JPEG conversion, and batch white balance settings, highlight correction, noise reduction and aberration correction mode.

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For some of its functions, like email and the calendar, you can control how much data it stores by going into settings and specifying how many messages it should show from each account, or how far back in time its calendar should sync with the calendar service it uses.

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