"You...start almost immediately to turn the switch on from a shorter-term tactical focus to a longer-term strategic focus, " he says.

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If you get within a certain number of miles from home, your oven might start heating up, or your humidifier would switch on.

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Now, Amazon is extending Whispersync to professionally narrated audiobooks - customers can start reading a book on their Kindle, and seamlessly switch to listening to their corresponding Whispersync for Voice-enabled audiobook from Audible on their phone or tablet, picking up exactly where they left off.

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Users can simply slide the Instant On-Record switch into its locked position to immediately start capturing video.

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There is something about a lump sum that makes people flip a switch in their brain and start a whole mental dreamscape about what they can spend it on.

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The Light Night switch on event, which attracted 15, 000 people to the city centre last year, will start at 17:15 on the Mound on 29 November.

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Users can still switch to a more traditional desktop mode by clicking on an icon, but the environment lacks the start menu button offered since Windows 95.

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One of the biggest frustrations of mobile gaming is that when customers switch devices or delete and re-install the game on the same device, they have to start a level over or go back to the beginning of the game.

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