Tuesday, May 31, 2011

It?s About the Hashbangs

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About Time! 'This American Life' Finally Goes iPad

this american lifeNot to make gross generalizations, but it is pretty amazing that 'This American Life,' the NPR talk show hosted by hip geek Ira Glass, took this long to get to the iPad. NPR and iPads should have an intrinsic relationship, like Volkswagens and Macs, Starbucks and the New York Times. Once again, these are broad assumptions, but the Cult of Mac's reputation as NPR-listening, Toms-wearing folk isn't for naught. Too bad it's text only, but we certainly hope "Squirrel Cop" makes an appearance.

Disclaimer: This author works on a Mac and listens to NPR, and this was written while sipping a soy chai latte in a Brooklyn coffee shop.

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Nokia gives 3 reasons 2011 won't go as well as hoped

By Tim Conneally, Betanews

Thanks to increased competition in the Chinese and European mobile markets, Nokia has negatively adjusted its outlook for the second quarter.



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Ryan Block: ?It?s Time for Bill Gates to Come Back to Microsoft?

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Sequoia's Moritz Thinks Digital Investors Have Gone Cuckoo

So, is there a new tech bubble? One man who may know is Michael Moritz, the celebrated veteran Sequoia partner who invested in companies like Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and, oh, LinkedIn.

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Self Discipline and Habits

This morning, I answered a question in the latest Reader Mailbag on self discipline and habits. I’ll reprint the question and answer here for your convenience. Q1: Self-discipline or habits? I?m an avid personal finance reader/thinker, and an avid runner, and lately I?ve been struggling with the question of whether my success has been due [...]

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Review: Do the Work

Every Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal finance or other book of interest. Also available is a complete list of the hundreds of book reviews that have appeared on The Simple Dollar over the years. A while back, I reviewed Steven Pressfield’s wonderful book The War of Art. In it, Pressfield discussed not only [...]

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Spare Change: RV Parking Edition

As many of you know, former GRS staff writer Adam Baker — aka the Babe Ruth of blogging — has spent the last few months on a cross-country RV tour. Adam and Courtney and three-year-old Milli have been living in a 31-foot gas-guzzler sponsored by Adaptu, a new online money-management tool. Note: Have I mentioned [...]

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As Expected, Smartphones and Social Networks Targeted by Malware

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As security firms have been warning for some time, malware attacks are now more frequently focused on social networks and mobile devices. In Symantec's latest Internet Security Threat Report, the company noted that the number of malware attacks delivered through the Web practically doubled from 2009, with 65-percent of malicious links on Facebook arriving in the form of shortened URLs. The company also took special care to highlight the growing field of smartphone-based attacks, in particular those targeting Android. Many of the pieces of Facebook and Android malware rely on the laziness of users. Apps must specifically request permissions, but many people simply click through the notifications without reading them carefully. And as time passes, the attacks will only become more sophisticated.

For now, attacks seem focused on harvesting personal data from profiles and sending text messages to premium services, which earn a commission for the scammer. But as users start turning to their cell phones for mobile banking and shopping more frequently, they're likely to become a much bigger target for digital crooks.

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Monday, May 30, 2011

West Bank Settlers Spread Propaganda Using Violent Video Games

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Using video games as propaganda is nothing new. The U.S. has been doing it with 'America's Army' for some time, while Hezbollah has employed 'Special Force' to spread its message. But those games might seem quaint and diplomatic in the face of a series of games from Residents' Councils of Samaria and Binyamin, an advocacy group for Jewish settlers in the West Bank. The organization has released a trio of violent shoot-'em-ups with Biblical roots and a pro-Israeli bent. The first, 'Judah Maccabee,' puts players in the role of a Maccabee soldier (a rebel army that took control of Judea from the Greeks around 167 B.C.) as he infiltrates a Greek camp. The second, 'Ahab in Samaria,' has players defending Israel from invading soldiers. 'Ammunition Hill,' the most recent game, puts players in the boots of a soldier during the invasion of East Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.

The games are rough-looking by American standards, with simplistic play reminiscent of 'Doom.' They were developed by Virtual 3D, a company that primarily traffics in archaeological software, using Shockwave (a relative of Flash). The games aren't going to win any converts to the settlers' cause, and will probably further put off those who are already unsympathetic. But propaganda will always have its place, and in the digital age that place is online games.

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Facebook: Ceglia Lawsuit Is A Fraud, Contract Is A 'Cut-And-Paste Job'

Last month, Paul Ceglia’s lawsuit saying he owns half of Facebook got the attention of the national and international press, mainly because the suit includes several alleged email exchanges between Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Ceglia. Facebook offered its response to the suit today in court, repeating its contention that the whole thing is a fraud by Ceglia, who is described in the new filing as “an inveterate scam artist whose misconduct extends across decades and borders.”

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Convicted Hacker Says He Committed Credit Card Heist for U.S. Government

albery gonzalezThe hacker who orchestrated the biggest computer crime operation in U.S. history is alleging that the American government authorized him to do so.

Last year, 29-year-old Albert Gonzalez pleaded guilty to hacking into computer systems at TJX, Office Max, Dave & Busters, Heartland Payment Systems and other companies, in order to steal some 130 million credit card numbers. He received a 20-year prison sentence, which he's currently serving at a low-security facility in Michigan.

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All That Glitters: Why I?m Not Investing in Gold

Over the past two years, I’ve received a lot of requests to write about investing in gold and silver. I’ve ignored these requests. For one, I feel unqualified to comment. For another, I’m afraid that anything I do say will just make people angry. Last week I realized, however, that I don’t have to come [...]

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1 October 1949: Humphrey Bogart in court

Alastair Cooke finds Bogie before the beak in an early case of tabloid chicanery

Despite the case being thrown out, Bogart's wife, Lauren Bacall, was less than impressed that her husband had found himself in such a situation in the first place. "This husband of mine," she said, "has to go out and get loaded; that's what happens when you're pushing 50." She also added, "You can quote me on this: my husband is wonderful."

For Bogart's part, he never denied he was feeling quite relaxed at the time. When the New York columnist Earl Wilson asked him if he had been drunk, he replied simply, "Isn't everybody at 4 a.m.?"


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Geminoids Meet Their Meaty Doppelgangers


Which ones are the humans and which are the robots? We're not even sure the participants in this terrifying photo op know the answer to that question. Three nightmarish Geminoids were brought together with the flesh bags they were modeled after, presumably so the 'bots could learn a bit more about their human counterparts before murdering them and taking their place in life.

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The Danger of the Rich Act

Dinner With My Family will return next week. Right now, I am in (arguably) the best financial shape of my life. I’ve paid off all of my debts except for my mortgage and I’ve got a healthy amount in savings as well. Each month, I’m bringing in more than I’m spending. Many families in this [...]

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9 Ways to Eat Your Way to Better Sleep

When your sleep is constantly disrupted or you're simply unable to fall asleep with ease, the temptation to turn to sleeping pills is likely to be high. And yet, sleeping pills don't retrain you to sleep properly independent of them and they tend to leave many people feeling unrefreshed in the morning and sometimes they can even lead to addiction if relied upon too often, for too long. Moreover, sleeping pills are more of the quick-fix solutions that don't lead us to change a diet that may be wreaking havoc with our health.
So, can you go to sleep without taking pills? There are numerous solutions using food (and drink) that can be put to good use in helping you get better sleep. Here is how to be kind to your tummy so it will leave you alone when you want to rest!

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BlackBerry OS 7 Features Announced--But It Won't Run On Older Devices



This morning, RIM finally unveiled its next generation mobile operating system, BlackBerry OS 7. It's not a giant leap forward, but RIM is detailing a faster and easier-to-use OS that comes with an integrated, voice-enabled Universal Search system.

BlackBerry fans that have been frustrated by the operating system's chronically sluggish Web experience will be pleased to know that OS 7 offers a "significantly enhanced" browser with HTML5 video support and speed updates.

Interestingly, OS 7 won't have any legacy support, meaning that even the current generation Bold or Touch that you bought last year will be left behind -- you'll need to have one of RIM's brand new 9900 or 9930 devices to run it. SlashGear writes that according to RIM, "the reasoning behind the absent upgrades is that the new OS is so dependent on the hardware graphics capabilities of its new handsets."

RIM's new BlackBerry Balance application, though, will work on any device running OS 6.0 or later. First detailed in January, Balance is RIM's solution for combining both your personal and corporate accounts -- and all the security requirements that those require -- on a single device. For example, you can wipe all of the enterprise data from your phone, while still leaving the personal accounts intact. Or, social networking apps like Facebook and Twitter can be given limited access to anything from your corporate accounts.

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Tony Montana Would Not Approve of a 'Scarface'-Motivated Killing

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Well, this is the world that we live in now: 22-year-old Texan Alejandro Garcia pleaded guilty to shooting his then-17-year-old cousin over who would get the next turn to play 'Scarface: The World Is Yours.' The world certainly doesn't belong to either cousin now; Garcia has a sentence of 30 years, and his cousin was killed in the tragic event. Life imitates art, which sucks when the "art" is Al Pacino with a bad accent, killing people over drug deals gone awry and whoever is shtupping his wife.

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Why it's harder to make money on Android than on Apple's iOS

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Sunday, May 29, 2011

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Ask the Readers: But What If I *AM* Materialistic?

I’ve received a lot of interesting out-of-the-ordinary questions from GRS readers recently. Two weeks ago, for instance, Rita asked about the moral implications of spending. This week, Crystal wants to know: What if she is materialistic? Is that wrong? If so, how can she change? Here’s what she has to say: I?ve read your blog [...]

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A Penny Saved is a Penny Spurned? What to Do with Pockets Full of Change

This post is from GRS staff writer Donna Freedman. Donna writes a personal finance column for MSN Money. She also writes about frugality, intentional living, and life in general at her own blog, Surviving And Thriving. I regularly empty the change from my wallet. Pennies, nickels and dimes go into a pink piggy bank. Quarters [...]

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Reader Story: How My Parents and I Partnered on a Win-Win Savings Plan For College

This guest post from Robb Engen is part of the “reader stories” feature at Get Rich Slowly. Some reader stories contain general advice; others are examples of how a GRS reader achieved financial success — or failure. These stories feature folks from all levels of financial maturity and with all sorts of incomes. Robb writes [...]

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'Lesbian Spider-Queens of Mars' Is More Retro Than Risque

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This week we're showing love to the latest games from some of our favorite designers. These are creators from whom we've come to expect the best -- and this week's picks certainly live up to our expectations.

Self-professed "dot matrix dominatrix" Anna Anthropy (a.k.a. Auntie Pixelante) has consistently wowed us in the past. Her latest game is the intriguingly titled 'Lesbian Spider-Queens of Mars.' Modeled after the classic arcade game 'Wizard of Wor,' it perfectly recreates the feel of a greasy, soda-stained arcade cabinet. Simplistic yet addictive, 'Lesbian Spider-Queens of Mars' is a brilliant example of retro gaming done right.

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Sparrow 1.2 adds unified mailbox, Facebook friends

By Mark Wilson

The minimalist email client for Mac is now more than about Gmail. The new version supports multiple email accounts and displays Facebook avatars.



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Saturday, May 28, 2011

Apple Says Developers Are Licensed for Lodsys Patents

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Ask Unclutterer: Concert tickets

Reader Ali wants to know how best to display her concert, play, festival, and movie tickets she has kept over the years.

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BlackBerry Bold 9900, 9930 Will Run BlackBerry OS 7


RIM kicked off its BlackBerry World event in Orlando, Florida by launching the not-so-secret BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930 models, also dubbed "Bold Touch."

While the devices don't noticeably stray from RIM's design choices from the past decade -- they're instantly recognizable as QWERTY keyboard BlackBerrys -- the 9900 and 9300 pack some impressive guts. While the 2.8-inch VGA touchscreens won't impress many in today's world of 4-inch screens, but the devices are RIM's thinnest yet at 10.5mm.

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Book publishers in denial on Amazon's e-book sales

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Swedish File Sharers Get Religious About Stealing

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Swedish philosophy student Isaac Gerson thinks that file sharing is sacred. The 19-year-old leader of the Missionary Church of Kopimism believes that stealing and sharing are signs of appreciation, and has compared closed-source software to slavery. Last year, Sweden rejected the church's application to be recognized as a religion, but Gerson isn't giving up so easily. He'll be reapplying after meeting with government officials.

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BlackBerry Bold 9900, 9930 Will Run BlackBerry OS 7


RIM kicked off its BlackBerry World event in Orlando, Florida by launching the not-so-secret BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930 models, also dubbed "Bold Touch."

While the devices don't noticeably stray from RIM's design choices from the past decade -- they're instantly recognizable as QWERTY keyboard BlackBerrys -- the 9900 and 9300 pack some impressive guts. While the 2.8-inch VGA touchscreens won't impress many in today's world of 4-inch screens, but the devices are RIM's thinnest yet at 10.5mm.

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What price for Square's cool features?

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Robinson Crusoe and Our Journey

This past weekend, I spent some time re-reading a large portion of Daniel Defoe’s classic novel Robinson Crusoe, which you can read in its entirety here. Most of us are familiar with the basic outline of the story. Crusoe is shipwrecked on an island and, after overcoming his initial grief, he manages to build a [...]

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Clutter isn?t always in the eye of the beholder

It is easy to become numb to the images we see every day, especially when those images are ones we don't love, cherish, or appreciate. It's also very simple for these items to become part of the invisible clutter in our homes and offices because they usually don't take up floor space -- we don't trip over the things hanging on our walls.

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Self Discipline and Habits

This morning, I answered a question in the latest Reader Mailbag on self discipline and habits. I’ll reprint the question and answer here for your convenience. Q1: Self-discipline or habits? I?m an avid personal finance reader/thinker, and an avid runner, and lately I?ve been struggling with the question of whether my success has been due [...]

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Injunctions row: Meet the man who helps celebrities remain anonymous

High-profile barrister Hugh Tomlinson QC says privacy law is good, if properly defined and enforced

Hugh Tomlinson QC has become renowned for making clients anonymous. It is his persuasive charm that regularly ensures celebrities' alleged infidelities or other indiscretions are not exposed in the tabloids. He is the leading securer of privacy injunctions.

His prominent ? although sometimes invisible ? customers have included Sir Fred Goodwin, former head of RBS and Chris Hutcheson, father-in-law of the chef Gordon Ramsay, as well as footballers and television personalities whose true identities are concealed behind random series of letters: CTB, DFT, POI, AJH, and MJN.

That celebrities have been unmasked in parliament, on Twitter, or on the web ? becoming more celebrated than intended ? has not dented Tomlinson's belief in strict judicial enforcement of privacy rights. "Rules have been laid down," he says. "The fact the law is difficult to enforce doesn't mean you don't try to enforce it."

Yet no one would suggest such a jovial man ? who clearly relishes the interplay of argument and runs the influential Inforrm legal blog about media law ? of being a prude or adopting a secretive lifestyle.

Tomlinson himself appears bemused that he has gained the status of preserver of reputations for those wealthy and desperate enough to need a privacy order. But the 57-year-old is in no doubt that the 1998 Human Rights Act provides clear authority for protecting those who wish to prevent details of their extra-marital sex lives being paraded through the media.

"The current legal position has got the balance essentially right," he says. "If things are private they shouldn't become public unless there's public interest in doing so. The main point of contention is that the press say that if someone is having an adulterous affair, that's something that should be exposed. The judges don't agree.

"They draw the line that [publication is only allowed] where there's misconduct the law recognises, for example, criminal and regulatory misconduct or hypocritical misleading of the public."

That such a broad definition has been adopted by British judges has shocked the media, particularly those that rely on "kiss and tell" stories.

"If anyone had misled the public as to whether they had a drug habit or medical condition, they would never obtain a privacy injunction," he adds. "In the end someone has to decide on the public interest. It can't be editors who have an obvious axe to grind. It can't be parliamentarians because they don't have the evidence on the particular facts of [each] case. Judges form the only available institution to make the decisions."

Tomlinson studied philosophy, not law, at university, pursuing research, after Oxford, at Sussex and Paris. He has translated seven books of the post-modernist French thinker Gilles Deleuze, one of whose more enigmatic sayings states: "A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window."

Having joined the bar in 1983, Tomlinson became a QC in 2002. He has co-authored textbooks on suing the police and the law of human rights, which at 2,000 pages, as he points out, is 50% longer than the Bible. "I began as a barrister who did everything; a bit of crime, commercial and family law. Then I began working with George Carmen, the head of my chambers, on a few big libel cases, such as Virgin v British Airways.

"Having written a book on human rights and knowing media law meant that I was instructed in cases related to privacy." Other clients have included the footballer Rio Ferdinand and the Prince of Wales during his legal battle with the Mail on Sunday over his travel diaries.

Tomlinson is a member ? alongside Cherie Booth, Professor Philippe Sands and the former DPP Lord Macdonald ? of the London-based Matrix chambers.

The courts' recent decision to stage more privacy cases, where possible, in public has reinforced Tomlinson's profile. He has appeared four times in the court of appeal on privacy cases in the past six months. He has regularly been instructed by Schillings, the solicitors which have also pioneered privacy injunctions.

He prefers less puzzling titles for cases than the random, alphabetic sequences that look like they have been devised by an amateur cryptologist. "The royal courts of justice's computer needs at least three letters," he says. "They are made up on the spur of the moment. I have tried to introduce real names. We called one last year 'The author of a Blog v The Times'."

Privacy injunctions can cost a client between �5,000 and �50,000. Tomlinson is complimentary about the recent report by the Master of the Rolls but disagrees with one of its main recommendations: inviting the media into injunction application hearings. It would make the procedure more difficult and increase costs, he believes. "The press can already apply to discharge an order."

He does not always represent the applicant. Last year, he appeared for a soul singer, Adakini Ntuli, challenging a superinjunction which prevented her revealing she had had an affair with the Take That member Howard Donald. "It was the first case where a superinjunction was challenged in the court of appeal," he recounts.

Does he believe Britain is heading towards a French-style, more protective privacy law? "There's a very slow but obvious convergence between European legal systems. Aspects of the approach in France are coming into English law. We are becoming more French."

The recent setbacks to privacy injunctions do not discourage him. "What's important to me is the protection of my clients. A barrister's job is to go to court and argue the best possible case on behalf of his or her client.

"After this outburst of public hysteria over gagging orders, people will get to the bottom of it and realise there's not much in it. That may be helpful to people who want to protect their privacy."

A privacy law was first proposed in parliament in 1961. He would like to see the issue debated in the Commons: "It's perfectly proper and sensible for parliament to give general guidance.

"It's important to have a public consensus about privacy law ? to have wider agreement about where the boundaries should be so that every one knows where they stand."


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Friday, May 27, 2011

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Celebrities don't read books

The pleasures of reading elude some of our biggest names ? from Jamie Oliver to, erm, Davinia Taylor

Mindful of its responsibilities to put something back, Lost in Showbiz is toying with the idea of launching a telethon for celebrity aliteracy. Are you aware of this heartbreaking condition, in which those we might loosely term members of the entertainment community are able to read, but make a big play of choosing not to? The symptoms are a wildly misplaced pride, and an implicit belief that because their success has been achieved without so much as opening a book, reading is generally overrated.

Jamie Oliver is forever boasting "I have never read a book in my life ? ever", the sort of extreme debating pose he'd presumably find less helpful were it a 104-year-old woman explaining she'd never eaten a vegetable in her life. Victoria Beckham also claimed in an interview with a Spanish newspaper never to have read a book, though she later ruled that a mistranslation. Let the record state she has never finished a book.

Latest to join the throng is former Hollyoaks actor Davinia Taylor ? heiress to a loo roll fortune ? who is selling her house complete with the books that line its walls.

"I've not actually read any of them," she hastens to point out. "I just love the bindings."

Perhaps the most complex celebrity aliterate, however, is Katie Price. She has never read her own autobiography, not any of its three sequels, nor any of her five novels. She does, however, devour books about serial killers, and has said she would love nothing more than the chance to visit Broadmoor. Suggestions as to how to make her dreams come true are most welcome.


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How to Invest in Bonds

Bonds are the prototypical traditional investments, as opposed to stocks, which are more speculative in nature. When you invest in bonds, you pay the par value of the bond, plus any premium or minus any discount, plus any accrued interest, plus any commissions, and get paid fixed annual interest specified by the coupon rate, typically twice yearly until maturity of the bond, when you get paid the par value of the bond.
Barring defaults in interest or principal, bonds are a great way to save and grow your money steadily, especially during periods of high interest rate when you can get yields comparable to or exceeding that of stock returns. Here are the steps to get you started investing in bonds.
Note: All dollar amounts refer to US dollars, and the bond types referred to relate to the United States of America's bond market.

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Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 7 and Xara Designer Pro 7 are now available

By Nick Peers

ew features include the addition of fly-out galleries, a magnetic snap feature, and a photo-erase tool that aims to simplify the process of replacing the background in one image with that of another.



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