That's because the lines in the notebook are printed using a unique dot pattern that helps Evernote identify the paper's exact dimensions and hue, so it can optimize contrast and correct skew.

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Nelson said DOT started using a Geographic Information System program developed by the conservancy's Adirondack researchers last year.

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You can also reduce the pears' cooking juices until syrupy and dot the plates, using the tip of a spoon handle.

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"Even the dot-coms are using mail to stimulate demand, " he says.

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Accounts can be funded using MasterCard, Dwolla or Green Dot.

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Most crops in the region are sown and harvested by hand, including the small plots that dot the gravity-challenging mountain sides, and farm machinery is a rare sight, with villagers using donkeys, oxen and bulls to plough the crops.

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Using the Memory Spot, medical supply company McKesson might enable pharmacists to guarantee against drug piracy with an authorization dot on the tops of drug containers, or aid elderly patients in following prescription guidelines via a reader on a pendant or a cell phone that accesses the dot on their pill bottles.

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Unfortunately what they didn't do was dot the "i's" and cross the "t's" when creating and using the Department for Transport's complicated economic model for assessing franchise bids - which meant that in a judicial review of the Department's decision to go with First Group, launched by Virgin, the current holder of the franchise, the government was bound to lose.

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