And within seconds a text message pops up on my phone telling me that Linden has sent me a gift.

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Firstly, the aforementioned absence of an optical trackpad isn't a bother for the Desire S, which now lets you place your cursor precisely within text using a magnifying glass overlay and offers a couple of draggable pointers for defining text selections.

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, an infographic is worth an awful lot of data points and readers to get an idea of a long text within seconds.

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Within a day, he had received about a hundred calls and text messages.

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With the Twitter app, you can not only click to Tweet an image, but also tweet with a text label that highlights a particular thing within an image.

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According to Rangel, the USTR has prevented Congressional committees from evaluating the deal within a 30-day deadline because the administration has withheld portions of its text.

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An e-mail has a formal structure so it can travel and arrive safely across the net, but the text within it is much more loosely arranged.

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So from their point of view, asking rich nations to peak their emissions within a few years and halve them within five isn't unreasonable - especially, as another portion of the text says, that the problem of greenhouse warming has been on the radar for so long that rich countries could have peaked their emissions during the 1990s if they had wanted to.

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