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Friday 7 September 2012

Apple iCloud


Nobody knows for sure what Apple has in store Monday when it introduces, iCloud, the company's newest cloud service offering. Will iCloud absorb MobileMe--Apple's calendar, e-mail, and contacts sync service -- or will it stand alone? Does Apple have plans for a new file sync feature that will seamlessly unify files on your iOS devices with your Mac or Windows PC?

Pakistan vs Australia T20 Match Live Streaming and Score Board Details | Pak vs Aus



Method No 1

Watch the Pakistan vs Australia 2nd T20 Cricket Match Live Streaming

Australia tour of United Arab Emirates, 2nd T20I: Australia v Pakistan at Dubai (DSC), Sep 7, 2012

Match scheduled to begin at 20:00 local time (16:00 GMT)

Australia squad
GJ Bailey*, SR Watson, DT Christian, PJ Cummins, XJ Doherty, BW Hilfenhaus, GB Hogg, DJ Hussey, MEK Hussey, AC McDermott, CJ McKay, GJ Maxwell, MA Starc, MS Wade†, DA Warner, CL White

Pakistan squad
Mohammad Hafeez*, Abdul Razzaq, Asad Shafiq, Imran Nazir, Kamran Akmal†, Mohammad Sami, Nasir Jamshed, Raza Hasan, Saeed Ajmal, Shahid Afridi, Shoaib Malik, Sohail Tanvir, Umar Akmal, Umar Gul, Yasir Arafat

Click Here to Watch the Pakistan vs Australia 2nd T20 Cricket Match Live Streaming


Method No 2

Australia face Pakistan in the 2nd T20 in Dubai on Friday. After the humiliating defeat in the 1st ODI, Australia is expected to bounce back in today's game.

The match will begin at 9:30 India time. See live scorecard.

Australia made three changes to its side in order to play aggressively and strike back.

For Pakistan, Shahid Afridi is not recovered from the injury and is unlikely to play today.

Ten Sports will live telecast the matches live in Pakistan and India. Watch live streaming online here.

Pakistan is up 1-0 in the three T20 series and will look to wrap the series by winning this one.

Australia: 1 David Warner, 2 Shane Watson, 3 Michael Hussey, 4 David Hussey, 5 George Bailey, 6 Cameron White, 7 Matthew Wade, 8 Daniel Christian, 9 Brad Hogg, 10 Pat Cummins, 11 Mitchell Starc.

Pakistan : 1 Mohammad Hafeez, 2 Imran Nazir, 3 Nasir Jamshed, 4 Kamran Akmal , 5 Umar Akmal, 6 Shoaib Malik, 7 Abdul Razzaq, 8 Sohail Tanvir, 9 Raza Hasan, 10 Umar Gul, 11 Saeed Ajmal.


How to Make Your Laptop Battery Longer Long Life in Just SImple Step

How do you keep your laptop battery going for as long as possible? If you've had replaced your laptop battery, then you know that it is not cheap.


Here are some basics you should learn about laptop batteries. Most of them are manufactured from lithium ion. The average life of a Li-Ion battery is 300 to 500 discharge-recharge cycles, or 2 to 3 years, whichever comes first. Power level, environmental conditions and charging habits will affect the longevity of the battery. As the battery gets closer to its end of life, the amount of time it will hold a charge will become less and less. Whatever precautions you will take, battery life will eventually wear with time.


You should know that you can do something to lessen the impact of the battery degradation and make the life span of your laptop battery a little bit longer. Although your battery will eventually die, proper care can put off the inevitable. Here's how to keep your laptop battery working for as long as possible.


Keep your batteries away from too hot or too cold environments


Undue heat kills off a battery slowly but surely. Avoid leaving the laptop under direct sunlight or inside a closed car. Maintain your battery out of utmost heat. Similarly, extreme cold conditions (like a refrigerator) can also kill a battery. Hence, never leave your laptops in places where temperatures are extreme. Of course, the whole health of your laptop can benefit from this, not just your batteries. If you don't plan to use the laptop on batteries for quite some time, ensure that the charge is about 40% then remove the battery and store it in a cool place (room temperature).


Practice proper charging-discharging habits


Most people are familiar with Nickel Cadmium (Ni-Cad) batteries, and know that it is best to discharge them all the way down before charging them up again because they have charge memory. This is not true for Lithium Ion batteries. Li-Ion batteries do not have that type of memory, so it is not important to let them discharge all the way down before recharging. In fact, most of the time, it is best NOT to let it discharge all the way. Partial discharge reduces stress and prolongs battery life. If possible, avoid frequent full discharges and charge more often between uses.


Exercise the battery


Do not leave a charged battery dormant for long periods of time. Too usually, folks would use their laptops while plugged in a power source. While this is fairly safe, batteries that don't get used shall be simply as sickly as batteries which are used incorrectly. Like our bodies, batteries need to be exercised to remain robust and healthy. Moreover, keeping a fully charged battery at elevated temperatures (which is the case when running a laptop on the power grid for extended period) affects the performance of the battery.


Use the right charger


The volume of energy that is introduced and expended over each charging cycle will make a difference in the life of a Li-Ion cell. It is best to use the original equipment to charge the battery. Higher output charging units (what we typically call fast chargers) will reduce the life of the battery.


Use Power Management Applications


Most laptops come with power management applications with battery maintenance functions. When running on extended AC mode, you can select "long life" option for your battery and it will charge to about 80% capacity only. Before travelling, apply the "full charge" option to bring your battery to 100% capacity.


A typical lithium ion battery has an overall average life of 2-3 years. With some care and caution, its mortality can be delayed. These simple ways on laptop battery care could help you in increasing or lengthening the lifespan of your laptop battery.

Thursday 6 September 2012

How to Remove / Delete Labels From Blog Posts

If you want to hide labels from blogger post footer (or below post title), it is a very easy thing to do.
Sometimes labels can be unnecessary if you already have them in the blogger sidebar.
How we gonna do it?

Hide labels from Blogger

Step 1. Click 'Layout' tab and go to the 'Edit HTML' Subtab.
First of all, backup your current template to be assured that you won't lose or delete something erroneously (to do that > click download full template)
Step 2. Check 'Expand Widget Templates' option to expand the CSS code.
Step 3. Find the following code in your template.



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Step 4. Delete this portion from your template.
Step 5. Save Template. And you're done

How to Make Your Blogger / Blog Load Faster Than 123

The speed at which your blog loads is very critical to attracting and retaining more readers to your blog. If your blog takes a long time to load, many readers may leave your blog before they have the chance to read it.


The major factors that affect your blog load speed include:

  • The number and nature of Images and other multi-media
  • Third Party JavaScript and Links
  • Number of Posts displayed on the Main page

Let's take a look at the above factors and few tips and tricks that will help you optimize your blog load time.

Images and other multimedia are important to beautifying and attracting users to your blog. However, the more images, videos and other multi-media you have on your blog the longer it takes to load. It becomes necessary to optimize the load speed of your images and other media.
Decrease the size of your images or use thumbnails that link to the full-size image.
Consider uploading images to Picasa Web Albums via the Blogger post editor if you use third party images.Don't link to external image URLs!

For optimal blog load speed, we recommend using Google/Blogger widgets, JavaScript and links.
However, I understand that sometimes you will need to use third party JavaScript and links. If you those, put them at the bottom of the sidebar. Your blog will load much faster that way.

Finally, your blog's load time can be affected by the number of posts you display on your main page. 10 or even fewer posts per page is recommended. You can easily edit the number of posts displayed of the main page from the Settings > Formatting tab. You can then select the number of posts you want to display on the main page as shown in the image below.

How to Easy Hide or Remove Blogger / Blogspot Top Navigation Bar

If you are using any default template of Blogger, I'm pretty sure you must have seen a navigation bar at the top of your blog. The Blogger NavBar contains Search Blog textbox, Follow link, Next Blog link to visit another blog randomly, links to create a blog or sign in to Blogger etc.
Below is the preview of Blogger navigation bars.




What do you think about it? Well, I think it makes your blog look too basic and unprofessional? If we share the same thoughts and you want to hide or get rid of it. Follow these steps.

To Remove or hide the Blogger Navbar, you just have to insert one line of code into your blog's HTML. It's a very easy CSS hack. The trick will not interfere or mess up with your custom layouts and it's pretty safe and easy to implement.

1. Go to Dashboard > Template > Edit HTML
2. Check the box of Expand Widget Template.
3. Ensure you backup your template (Download Your Template)
4. Find the following code by pressing Ctrl + f

]]>

Before the line, add in the following line of code:

#navbar { display: none; }

5. Save your template.

View it. Viola and it's gone!

How to Add Animated Tag Cloud in your Blog / Blogger / Blogspot

Once you have added the animated tag cloud, you will see an additional widget (labels widget) in the Layout -> Page Elements page. So click on the "Edit" link of this widget.


Then in front of "Show" option mark the radio button "Selected Labels", now click on the small "edit" link and un-mark the labels which you want to remove from the tag cloud, and finally save it.


If you want to

Remove Label - Add New Label - Edit Label in Blogger / Blogspot

how you can edit, add or delete labels in Blogger.
Log in to Blogger, in the Posting section, click on Edit Posts.

See the highlighted regions in the image above.
As soon as you click on Edit posts, you will see all posts written by you (select posts per page as 300 in the right corner of the page).

1. Now to delete any label, click on "Select All". Then in the drop down menu "Labels action", under "Remove label" option you will see the list of all labels, click on the one, you want to remove for ever.

2. To add a label, select all the posts, you want to add the label. Then in the drop down menu "Labels action", under "Apply label" option click on New label.... Finally enter the name of the new label.

3. And in case you want to edit a label, unfortunately there's no direct option given by Blogger.
So do this, firstly in the list of labels column, present at the left side of the page, click on the label you want to edit. Now only those posts are displayed which have this label. Now add a temporary label to these posts. Then delete the label, you want to edit. Now click on the temporary label in the labels list. Now add the new label. Then finally delete the temporary label.

How to Easy Unfriend or Remove a Friend in Facebook

Want to delete a friend on Facebook? This guide will show you how to do just that.
To unfriend someone:


  • Go to that person's profile (timeline and even old profile)
  • Hover over the Friends box at the top of their profile (timeline and old profile )

  • Click Unfriend
  • A dialog box pops up. Click "Remove from Friends"


Viola! You're done.
Note: If you choose to unfriend someone, you will be removed from that person's friends list as well. If you want to be friends with this person again, you'll need to send a new friend request.

Your former friend will NOT receive any notification that you have unfriended them. A nice way to get rid of annoying friends

How to Easy Delete or Rename Blogger Labels

You've got blogger labels you don't need anymore.You want to delete or rename them?
Logon to www.blogger.com. On the dashboard, click Edit Posts.


On the Edit Posts screen, click Select: All (very important). Then drop down the Label Actions menu, scroll down and you'll find a Remove Label heading with a list of all your labels appearing under it.To delete one, click on it! You'll have to remove each label one after the other.I don't think there's a one-click solution to delete all labels at a time.

I don't also think there's a one-click solution to rename/edit a label name.Simply delete/remove the label and create another with a new name.

To create a new label, just drop down the Label Actions menu, scroll down and you'll find the New Label
heading, click on it and a dialog box prompts you to enter your new label name.Enter a name and click Ok. That's it.It's that easy!

How to Save Your Laptop Battery For Long Life


FlashFrozen maybe the answer to your short battery life. If you use Google Chrome, Firefox 4, and in Safari on 64-bit Macs, the Flash plug-in is pushed onto its own process. FlashFrozen lives as a tiny menu app, monitoring this process and will warn you (by turning red) if Flash is using a relatively significant amount of processor cycles. You can then go to FlashFrozen's menu to kill the Flash plug-in.

Any running Flash content is replaced with the broken plugin icon. Want to get Flash working again? Simply reload the page, or go to a new one. The next time Flash is needed, it'll come back to life. Flash ads or other Flash-related junk forces our processors to run hot and leech our precious battery fluids.

Flash animations and videos are among the top processor hogs on Mac OS X. A single poorly-designed Flash banner - even in an inactive window or tab - can suck up an entire processor core with its shady mortgage offers.

Your 5-hour battery life gets cut in half, your laptop runs hotter, and your legs cook to medium-rare.

That's where FlashFrozen comes into play.

FlashFrozen lets you stop the Flash plug-in dead in its tracks, letting your new-fangled Mac cool down, use less power, and give you more time to do whatever it is you do. Probably blog or tweet or something.

And the new AutoKill mode actively stops Flash at all times. Turn this on and off at will to save even more battery life.





How to Close Your iPad Open Apps At Ones on 1 Click

Since the introduction of Multitasking to iOS, you can now run more than one program on your iDevice at the same time. That doesn’t mean you always want them open though – so this will show you how to close (or quit) any program running on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch.
  1. Start out by “double-clicking” the Home button on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. The Home button is the one at the bottom of your iDevice, as illustrated in the image below.
  2. the ipad iphone and ipod touch home button
  3. This will bring up the ‘list’ of currently running Apps – by way of an “App bar” at the bottom of your screen. Tap and hold down on any one of the currently running Apps (even if it’s not the one you want to close).
  4. You’ll notice that each App will start to “wiggle” and now has a small “minus sign” circle in the upper left corner. Tap the “minus sign” of the App you want to close/quit.
  5. That App will now close. NOTE: This will close the App, not delete it.
  6. You can continue tapping the “minus signs” to close all open Apps, if needed.

How to Close Your iPad Open Apps At Ones on 1 Click

Since the introduction of Multitasking to iOS, you can now run more than one program on your iDevice at the same time. That doesn’t mean you always want them open though – so this will show you how to close (or quit) any program running on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch.
  1. Start out by “double-clicking” the Home button on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. The Home button is the one at the bottom of your iDevice, as illustrated in the image below.
  2. the ipad iphone and ipod touch home button
  3. This will bring up the ‘list’ of currently running Apps – by way of an “App bar” at the bottom of your screen. Tap and hold down on any one of the currently running Apps (even if it’s not the one you want to close).
  4. You’ll notice that each App will start to “wiggle” and now has a small “minus sign” circle in the upper left corner. Tap the “minus sign” of the App you want to close/quit.
  5. That App will now close. NOTE: This will close the App, not delete it.
  6. You can continue tapping the “minus signs” to close all open Apps, if needed.

ow to Fix the Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad Problems

If you are unable to type letters, numbers, or symbols, you may have Mouse Keys enabled on a keyboard that has no numeric keypad or Num Lock key.


It happen to me this week, I was entering a password which had numerical numbers and I was using the numerical pad on the right side of my keyboard and I kept getting the wrong password message. I used the numbers above the letters on the keyboard and they worked.


So I thought I had a bad keyboard, until I did a simple search and there it was at Apple support, "Unable to type while Mouse Keys is enabled in Mac OS X"

Seams like I wasn't the only one having this problem.


How to Fix:


  1. Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu.
  2. Choose Universal Access from the View menu.
  3. Click the Mouse tab or in Lion Click Mouse & Trackpad
  4. Click Off, next to Mouse Keys. If you have already logged in as a different user where Mouse Keys is disabled, click On and then click Off next to Mouse Keys, to return the keyboard to normal operation.
Note: You may also check/uncheck the box for "Press Option key five times to turn Mouse Keys on or off".

Note: If you are logged on to a user where Mouse Keys is already disabled, but your keyboard is not responding properly, toggle the radio buttons for Mouse Keys "On" then "Off" to restore normal functionality.


How to Set Your MS Outlook to Auto Send and Recive Mail

Microsoft Outlook will check for new emails or send any emails in your outbox every 30 minutes. There might be a very important email coming in and need your action, I would say immediately but since new emails will only come in every 30 minutes, it might be too late for you to react on the email received.

You can actually change the setting to read new emails from as frequent as every 1 minute to maximum of every 120 minutes.
  1. Go to Tools menu, select Option....
  2. On the Options dialog box, go to Mail Setup tab and click Send/Recieve... button.



  3. On the Send/Recieve Groups dialog box, change the value (default is 30) for Schedule an automatic send/receive every ... minutes field under Setting for group "All Accounts" (or any other account you may have in your Group Name field.



  4. Once done, click Close and then click OK to close the Options dialog box.

Don't set it to 1 minute of your internet connection speed is poor. Maybe you can reduce it to 5 minutes.

How to View Your Web Mail In Your MS Outlook

organisations mostly offers access to thier emails for their personnels via webmails. For these users, all they need is a computer with internet access and of course an internet browser.
For Microsoft Outlook users... you can actually access your webmail without using any internet browser.
Here's how to do it...
Step 1: Create a folder under your account.
  1. From the Standard Toolbar, click the New pull-down button and select Folder... .



  2. Type a name in the field under Name: and make sure you select the root of your email account for the Select where to place the folder: list.


Step 2: Convert the folder to view your webmail.

  1. Right-click on folder you've just created and select Properties.



  2. On the folder's properties dialog box (mine is showing "Webmail Properties" as I've named my folder as "Webmail"), go to Homepage tab.
  3. Type the website address you usually use in your internet browser, starting with http:// in the Address: field.



  4. Click to enable the checkbox for Show home page by default for this folder.
  5. Click OK.

Now you can access your webmail from Outlook just by selecting the folder you've created and then login to your webmail account but make sure you are currently online to view it, just like you would do when viewing with the internet browser.


You can actually use this method to view any website you want like I do to view my training schedule.


How to Create Drawings and Shapes By Changing Standard Shape in PowerPoint 2007

create our own shapes by changing standard shape with PowerPoint 2007.
  1. Select a shape and place it on your slide (I selected an oval). Resize it as you want.
  2. With the shape selected, go to Drawing Tools ribbon, Format tab.
  3. Click Edit Shape from Insert Shapes group and select Convert to Freeform.



  4. Repeat step 3 but this time select Edit Points. You will see the shape will have multiple points for you to adjust.



  5. Now you can drag any edge of your shape to form a new shape of your own.




    (Sample of a new shape made of two circles. One as the body and the other as the head, grouped together as one shape)

How to Create Email Template In MS Office 2007

Sometimes, you may find that you will be sending emails of the same content again and again (maybe to send monthly report, etc...) and you'll find that you have to type same sentances for these emails again and again.

If that's the case, try saving the email message as a template and later you can reuse it.
  1. Compose new email as you usually do with normal emails. Put in the subject and if you are going to always send to the same receipient, you can put the receipient email addresses in the To, CC or BCC field.
  2. Once complete, click the Office Button and select Save As.



  3. In the Save As dialog box, change the Save as type: to Outlook Template.
  4. Name the file and select your file location if you want to save it in different location or just leave it in the default template location as it is.

For earlier version users, you must first disable the Use Microsoft Office Word 2003 to edit e-mail messages feature found in Tools > Options menu under the Mail Format tab of the Options dialog box.

Follow the steps 2 to 4 as stated above (slight difference in step 2 where you should click File menu instead of Office Button).

To use the template (same process for Outlook 2007 or earlier):

  1. From Tools menu, go to Forms and select Choose Form... .



  2. In the Choose Form dialog box, select User Templates in File System from Look In: combo box.



  3. Select the template listed or click the Browse button if the template is in other location.
  4. Click Open.

Now you can continue to add attachment(s) or amend the template as required.

- MRBAR

Wednesday 5 September 2012

iOS 5 update, a catastrophe

If you search in Google, you will find it in mostly all Mac/Apple forums, but, I do not know why, may be paying respect to Jobs, only few important pages are talking about the bad planned iOS 5 upgrade. And what worries me now is the question, is Apple ready to handle the whole traffic that iOS 5 will create with the new "Backup in the Cloud" concept and the coming new upgrades? It seems to me that they are not prepared. I could install iOS 5 in my iPad only 12 hours after the release and activate the Backup in the Cloud option only after 36 hours. And I still cannot create my first backup. The servers are so slow that took me more than 4 hours to download the 707Mb iOS file. The speed was comparable with the one we had in a old 56kb Modem.

What can I say about iOS 5?
There are few neat new features like the Tabs in Safari.




The Reader option in some pages.




The split keyboard that makes easier typing with two fingers.



But, let's be realistic. Nothing out the ordinary or innovative.

Free computer tip for resolving inability to add or remove programs

Resolving Inability to Add or Remove Programs


If a particular user cannot add or remove programs, there might be a simple registry edit need.

click at start button then select RUN and type Regedit

Go to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Pol icies\Uninstall
Change the DWORD NoAddRemovePrograms to 0 disable it.

How to Increasing Graphics Performance Easy

Free computer tip for Increasing Graphics Performance
By default, Windows XP turns on a lot of shadows, fades, slides etc to menu items.
Most simply slow down their display.

To turn these off selectively:

Follow these steps to Increasing Graphics Performance

  • Right click on the My Computer icon
  • Select Properties
  • Click on the Advanced tab
  • Under Performance, click on the Settings button
  • To turn them all off, select Adjust for best performance
  • For best performance leave them all off except for "show shadows under mouse pointer and Show window contents while dragging"

    how to Increasing Graphics Performance

    Free computer tip for Increasing Graphics Performance


    By default, Windows XP turns on a lot of shadows, fades, slides etc to menu items.
    Most simply slow down their display.

    To turn these off selectively:

    Follow these steps to Increasing Graphics Performance

  • Right click on the My Computer icon
  • Select Properties
  • Click on the Advanced tab
  • Under Performance, click on the Settings button
  • To turn them all off, select Adjust for best performance
  • For best performance leave them all off except for "show shadows under mouse pointer and Show window contents while dragging"

Increase Your System Speed in 7 Step

Free computer tips for Increase your system speed
First of all make it sure that your system is not infected with virus, spyware, adware or any other malicious software. If yes then first of all remove it because they are main factor that decrease your system speed. Here are few thing on which you system speed depends.

  1. disk defragment
  2. temp files
  3. registry files
  4. virus/spyware
  5. adware
  6. milieus softwares
  7. cache memory

Follow this Steps to increase your CPU speed:

Scan your system on regular basis:
If you are using a system which is connected to Internet or new USB are usually connected to your system then it is recommended that you scan your system on daily bases and conclude that which virus is mostly attacking on your files. try different antivirus if you are facing problem.

Delete all temporary file

When you use Internet your browser will cache the page and save the image,video,text every thing present on the web pages.Some times they also contain virus and these are unwanted for operating system,will decrease your processor speed.Some time some malware will also present in this.Ad-ware will spy your behaviour using your cookies ,So clean this unwanted Temp files.

Cleanup your disk

Do Disk Cleanup daily .This is a tool provide by windows ,which is inbuilt in your windows .Disk CleanUp will delete all the Active X like files or application installed while browsing on Internet.To clean this go to system tools and click Disk Cleanup select the drive and click OK Delete all the unwanted files and application

Defragment your disk

when files are stored on the disk they are not well organized, disk Defragmenter will rearrange them in a good way that will increase your system speed Weekly do Disk Defragmenter ,this will arrange your files in disk .It will also provide by Windows and administrator can only use this .This will take more than 15-45min.

How To Make Your Own Screensaver Slide Show

Free computer tip on how to make your own screensaver


You can put your own digital photos as a screensaver, First of all you need to create a slide show presentation for use as a screen saver.

How to make a slide show


- Right-click an empty spot on your desktop and then click Properties.

- Click the Screensaver tab.

- In the Screen saver list, click My Pictures Slide show.

- click on the settings button and click on browse to locate your pictures

- In the settings you can make Settings to make any adjustments, such as how often the pictures should change, what size they should be, and whether you'll use transition effects between pictures, and then click OK.


Now your screen saver is a random display of the pictures taken from your located folder.

How to Maintain and Clean CD-ROM

Free computer tip for CD-ROM cleaning



Computer CD-ROM is a sensitive device and it need great care to open and clean it. Normally they work good even having fair amount of dust on their lens but it can stop working when dust on the lens is more then enough. It can create two problems.

- Skipping/ Repeating CDs
- Stop reading
- Taking time in reading CDs

in this case you should make it sure that your CD-ROM need to be cleaned.

Take following steps to open the CD-ROM:

  • Take the CD-ROM out of CPU box
  • Open the try of the CD-ROM and remove the front cover of the try.
  • When try cover is removed you can removed the other cover on which play and eject button are situated.
  • Now open the screw

Almost in the middle of the machine there is a lens you can see it from the bottom of the CD-ROM. There is a small screw which holds the lens you can adjust it to fix the lens. some times this screw is lose and lens cannot perform better. now take tissue paper and very softly clean the lens. Always use blower to clean other parts of CD-ROM. After finishing this job tight the screw and place the cover as it was removed. You will definitely see difference in CD reading
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