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Christmas Free Mail Stationery 1.0 And Christmas Stationery Pack
Six Mail stationery designs.
aMac Island's free Christmas Stationery Pack for Mail contains 6 new themes for Christmas
System Requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.5 or later
• Mail 3.5 or later. Size: 3.2 MB
Platform Support
Intel
For more information, visit:
http://www.amacisland.com/mail7.html
Christmas Stationery Pack
The Christmas Stationery Pack contains 10 fully new models to announce Christmas time.
System Requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.5 or later
• Mail 3.5 or later.
€ 0.99
For more information, visit:
http://www.amacisland.com/mail7.html
HappyHolidays! 2.11 Photo Card Creation Software For Mac OS X
HappyHolidays! makes it easy to create personalized photo cards. Use your digital photos, add a personal message and you have the perfect photo card! Use HappyHolidays! to create your annual holiday card for family and friends. Create unique photo cards for any occasion: birth announcements, Mother's Day, Father's Day, graduation, birthdays, party invites, Valentines Day and they can be great thank you cards as well as get well cards. Be creative, have fun and make a HappyHolidays! photo card.
Save money using HappyHolidays! over ordering pre-designed photo cards from a photo center. You can print your HappyHolidays! photo card at any photo center that prints digital photos because HappyHolidays! allows you to save your photo card as a 4x6 jpeg photo file. Printing 4x6 prints is very inexpensive -- as low as $0.12 each with no minimum order. Pre-designed Holiday Cards can cost as much as $0.84 per card with a required minimum 50 copy order! You can save over $35 by printing your own HappyHoliday! designed 4x6 photo cards. In addition, you can create many variations of your holiday photo card -- personalize the photo or the message for each card!
You control the appearance and style of your photo card
With HappyHolidays! you are not limited to a set number of characters and lines for your personalized message, unlike most pre-designed photo cards that you order from photo centers. Stylize your message any way you want. HappyHolidays! works like a word processor allowing you to set text attributes (font, color, size, alignment) of your message. HappyHolidays! provides you more freedom than when you order pre-designed photo cards from photo centers. HappyHolidays! also offers image manipulation controls which allow you to crop and resize your image.
Three ways to deliver your photo card
Export your photo card as a hi-res JPEG file and print as a normal print at any photo center. Print your photo card on any photo printer. Email your photo card to family and friends.
Personalize your message in different languages
With HappyHolidays! you are not limited to having your personalized text message in English only. You can write part or all of your text message in any language supported by Mac OS X.
New in version 2.11:
• Six new Holiday templates for both 4"x6" and 5"x7"
Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
$10.00 Shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.24x7digital.com/content/view/16/69/
Sophie's Cards 5L.6.4.4 Greeting Card Software
Sophie's Cards 5 is a powerful greeting card creation software application., incorporating an extensive database of photographs and greeting messages (including extensive libraries of 792 photographic images and 730 text greeting messages, many of them original), in eighteen categories (with some crossover), plus 20 informal fonts. Sophie's Cards also allows you to import your own photos or art images and compose your own text. Imported pictures should be about 8 x 10.5 and no more than 72 dpi.
However, you probably won't want to import photos at least, because one of Sophie's Cards' most impressive features is the incredible library of photographic images. They are uncredited, but the photographer or photographers are true artists, and the images are superb - more than a few of them arrestingly beautiful. The selection is eclectically varied in subject matter and mood, so you should have no problem finding just the right image for any occasion and recipient. The program's developers aren't kidding when they say you should never have to send the same card twice. The challenge is deciding among so many excellent alternatives.
The beauty of a program like Sophie's Cards is that making your own greeting cards with a computer and color printer can save you money if you send a lot of cards, and perhaps more importantly, allows you to create personalized cards with just the right image and sentiments expressed.
Using Sophie's Cards is reasonably easy and intuitive. The basic steps are:
Select an Occasion (including holidays) and the program offers you a menu of appropriate images and verses. You can apply a particular color or style on just one or all words on a card or envelope. Text can be positioned with several options, superimposed over front cover photos, and on the inside faces and the back of the card in portrait or landscape format.
--OR--
Select a Sophie's Cards photo, and add your own text using My Words.
--OR--
You can import your own pictures to create a completely personalized card using My Words & Pictures.
The cards created by Sophie's Cards are very classy and professional-looking, complete with thumbnails and information about the front panel image on the back, along with attribution of the verse/text selections used, and a Sophie's Cards logo.
The program will print to standard 8 1/2 x 11 paper, but of course will work best with proper card stock paper such as available from Avery or Epson, for which size configuration options are provided in the menus. You can keep track of cards that you have sent with the Card History feature.
You can specify landscape or portrait oriented cards with full or small photos, and with or without cover text. There is also a custom envelope printing template with fields in which you can enter "to" and "from" addresses with your specified font, size, font color, and text alignment. You can also import addresses.
The built-in content library makes Sophie's Cards one of the biggest applications you're likely to have on your Mac. The online installer file download is 525 MB, which fits nicely on a CD.
New in version 5L.6.4.4:
Sophie's Cards is now "Leopard" (OS 10.5.x) compatible
Sophie's Cards' official system requirements specify any Power PC G3, G4, G5 or Intel based Mac with at least 256MB of RAM running Mac OS X v10.4.8 through 10.5.x; 1 GB of available hard disk drive space, and a photo quality inkjet printer. However, 1 GHz or better is recommended, and my experience running the program on a 1.33 GHz G4 PowerBook inclines me to the view that using it with anything less than 1 GHz of G4 power would be excruciatingly slow. It's tolerably usable on my 'Book, but pretty sluggish performing some functions. Of course Sophie's Cards should fly on any Intel based Mac.
System support
PPC/Intel
Sophie's Cards is $39.95 demoware. The downloadable version is a fully enabled demonstration copy that prints watermarks on the back of cards, and front and back of envelopes until it is registered. The program terminates after 14 days if it is not registered. Registration eliminates the watermarks. You can register at any time before or after the expiration to fully enable the Program.
For more information, visit:
http://www.sophiescards.com/
Use Funtastic Photos 1.0.2 To Create & Email Or Print Personalized Greeting Cards
Funtastic Photos is Ohanaware's amazingly easy to use photo editor for Apple Macintosh computers. Funtastic Photos features some of the most advanced photo editing technologies, such as Non-destructive Photo Editing. This amazing technology allows non-permenant manipulations to made to a photo, these changes can then be altered or removed at any time. The edited photo can easily be 'rewound' back to its original state, regardless when or how much editing has taken place.
Funtastic Photos makes photo editing simple with 1-Click Styles. A single click can fix problems and enhance the photo in ways never imagined. Funtastic Photos ships with 50+ 1-Click Styles which provide some original, unique and cool photo effects. Printing photos at home will never be the same. Funtastic Photos offers a range of inspiring layout designs, including amazing picture collages (or photo mosaics to some), addictive photo cubes and... greeting cards.
Funtastic Photos is a combined Photo Editor and Photo Sharing tool. Having the Photo Sharing built-in to Funtastic Photos makes it real easy to quickly edit a photo and share it online using e-mail, attractive Fun Cards, and direct uploads to the most popular photo sharing sites such as Facebook, Picasa Web Albums, MobileMe & Flickr. A trial version of Funtastic Photos can be downloaded from Ohanaware's website.
Funtastic Photos latest release can be downloaded from Ohanaware's website.
System Requirements:
Funtastic Photos requires a Power Macintosh G4, G5 or Intel based Macintosh computer, running Mac OS X v 10.4 or later. It is recommended to have at least 512 mb of RAM.
Funtastic Photos sells for $32.98
Ohanaware:
http://www.ohanaware.com
Funtastic Photos:
http://www.ohanaware.com/funtasticphotos/
Funtastic Photos Christmas Card tutorial here:
http://www.ohanaware.com/weblog/2009/11/make-a-beautiful-christmas-card/
Download Funtastic Photos:
http://www.ohanaware.com/funtasticphotos/FuntasticPhotos.dmg
Purchase Funtastic Photos:
http://www.ohanaware.com/store/
Christmasfy Me 1.0 Free Greeting Card Utility for iPhone and iPod Touch
Florida based Thirtynine LLC is introduces Christmasfy Me 1.0, their free greeting card utility for iPhone and iPod Touch. Just in time for the holidays, Christmasfy Me lets anyone christmasfy their picture by adding cute Christmas elements. When done, users can share their new Christmasfied picture via email, on Facebook or on Twitter.
Designed specifically to leverage the iPhone's unique capabilities and touch sensitive interface, Christmasfy Me is an incredibly simple-to-use application and ships with 3 elements to use right away. Users can add Christmas themed elements, such as Santa's beard and hat, reindeer horns and elves ears, to pictures in their library or to pictures they are taking inside the app. Easily resize, rotate or reposition any element to align them into place. Tired of one element? Tap on it 3 times and it will magically disappear.
Thirtynine spent much time on the overall quality experience, making Christmasfy Me's user interface much easier and intuitive. With its in-app purchase ($0.99 USD), at any time users can unlock another 37 elements. Additionally, Christmasfy Me features built-in email, Facebook and Twitter support, and makes it easy to send newly Christmasfied pictures to family and friends.
Feature Highlights:
* Comfortable and simple User Interface
* Touch sensitive - Easily move elements to align them
* Ships with 3 starter Christmas themed elements
* In-App purchase unlocks 37 more elements
"The idea for Christmasfy Me came to me when thinking of what to use this year for my own personal Christmas greeting," said Davide Di Cillo, founder of Thirtynine LLC. "Last year I added a Santa Claus motif to a stylized illustration of my head, so I though it would be cool to give everybody else the chance to Christmasfy their pictures for the holidays."
Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 3.0 or later
Christmasfy Me 1.0 is completely free ($0.99 USD to unlock additional Christmas elements) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Photography category. Review copies are available upon request.
Thirtynine:
http://thirtyninellc.com/
Christmasfy Me 1.0:
http://christmasfyme.com/
Purchase and Download:
http://itunes.com/apps/christmasfyme
Screenshot 1:
http://christmasfyme.com/screenshot1.png
Screenshot 2:
http://christmasfyme.com/screenshot2.png
helloCards for iPhone Expected to Dominate Christmas Card Market
Christmas during a recession has people opting to use helloCards version 1.3.3 to send Holiday greetings this year. Due to the economy, it may be the only way that some busy and broke families can afford it. The high cost of printed cards and postage rules out the traditional method. helloCards is an iPhone and iPod Touch app with a databank of 200 stock cards. They have something for every occasion.
Holiday season may be better financially than last year but many are still feeling the economic restraints. Luxury items, such as the traditional Christmas card mailing is out of the question for people who are busy trying to make ends meet. As a viable alternative, they are turning to inexpensive ways to send seasonal wishes, with helloCards topping the list as number one choice.
While the recession may be easing up, it's not over. Nor are the far reaching effects that it's had on the working class, who represent the majority of the population. Some may be able to afford a little more for loved ones this Christmas, however things have not bounced back enough yet for many of the traditional extras that add to the season. For that reason, the sending of cards via iPhone and iPod Touch apps has become extremely popular over the past year, with helloCards leading the pack. People appreciate paying a low, one-time fee of $1.99 to be able to send personalized Christmas cards to everyone on their list.
The climb in market share for helloCards isn't just about price. With everyone finding less and less time for themselves and their families, it is also a fast alternative to hand-writing cards and envelopes, applying stamps and going to the post office. People are able to personalize the helloCards with text and stock images or their own embedded photos quickly and easily, which is a huge selling feature. Once the card is made, it is sent to the recipient's inbox via the built-in email application.
To sample this product, there is a free version for people to try, called helloCards Lite. It works the same as the full app but has a smaller card library.
helloCards is an iPhone and iPod Touch app with a databank of 200 stock cards. They have something for every occasion. To customize the greetings, personal text and images can be embedded very quickly and easily. There are no usage limits on helloCards, they can be sent everyday, all day long. The $1.99 price tag is all you need to pay, nothing is extra.
Device Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch OS 3.0 or later
helloCards 1.3.3 is $1.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Social Networking category. Promo codes are available for qualified reviewers. Please specify the website or blog you represent when making your request.
helloCards 1.3.3:
http://luxiouslabs.com
Purchase and Download:
http://tinyurl.com/ycw9c37
Demonstration Video:
http://luxiouslabs.com/review
Screenshots:
http://luxiouslabs.com/screenshots
Portable Arts releases iCarol 2.0 - Send Virtual Carols To Your Friends
Portable Arts popular iCarol application now lets users send virtual Christmas carols to other iCarol users or to friends through eMail. Each iCarol contains high quality music, and provides lyrics (in case you want to sing along). Holiday images flash in the background, and users can also set up their virtual yule log while the music plays.
In addition to sending virtual carols, users can turn off the music and use iCarol as a source for lyrics, or turn off the lyrics and simply use iCarol to play the music during the holidays. Users have a choice of over 20 high quality recordings including; Jingle Bells, We Wish You A Merry Christmas, Deck The Halls, Angels We Have Heard On High, Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairies, Silent Night, The Wassail Song, Joy To The World, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, O Christmas Tree, The 12 Days Of Christmas, and many more.
Features:
* Over 20 High Quality Recordings
* Ability to send virtual Carols through eMail and to other iCarol users
* Lyrics
* Holiday Slideshow
* Virtual Yule Log
Requirements:
* iPhone/iPod Touch
* iPhone OS 3.1 or later
Pricing and Availability:
iCarol 2.0 is only $.99 (USD) and available exclusively through the App Store in the Music category. Members of the press wishing to review iCarol may contact Portable Arts for a complimentary promo code.
iCarol 2.0:
http://www.portablearts.com/page3/page3.html
Purchase and Download:
http://tinyurl.com/ybvzph5
Picaboo 2.0 Easy To Use Greeting Card Creation Software
Create eye-catching cards quickly and easily with Picaboo. Get started with dozens of Picaboo-designed themes and then customize until your heart's content. Make a stunning card in seconds.
Whether it's a holiday card, party invitation or thank-you card, a Picaboo card delivers maximum impact.
Select from over 50 professionally designed, unique card designs in 5 different card types.
Use built-in photo tools to rotate, crop, adjust brightness/contrast, and remove red eye.
Just add your favorite photos and text, and customize your card with any combination of backgrounds and layouts you wish.
Mix and Match
Whether you start with a design or a blank card, you can completely customize your card to make it truly your own.
Select from thousands of backgrounds, hundreds of page layouts, and dozens of fonts to make your card truly unique.
You can even use any of your photos as the page background for the inside and outside of your card.
New With Picaboo 2.0:
Custom covers, greeting cards, StoryFlow, and more
Custom Covers
Now you can customize the front, back, and spine of a cover.
Make the perfect cover with thousands of Picaboo backgrounds, or simply drag-and-drop any photo to create a stunning full-page bleed. Use new cover layouts or choose from any of the hundreds of existing layouts. Options and pricing >
Greeting Cards
Whether it's a holiday card, party invitation or thank-you card, Picaboo cards deliver maximum impact.
Professionally designed, Picaboo cards are completely customizable - mix and match backgrounds and layouts, and drag and drop any photo onto any card surface to create your own background or full page bleed.
StoryFlow
StoryFlow is a whole new way to create photo books, making it easier, faster, and more fun. Group your photos onto pages before your book is created and StoryFlow auto-creates a perfectly conceived book based on the theme you've selected.
Simply drag-and-drop your photos until they are grouped onto the pages in the order you want them. Once your book has been created, you have complete control to edit your book as you wish.
Remove Red Eye, Adjust Brightness & Contrast
Now, you can remove red eye in a couple clicks, and it's slider simple to adjust brightness and contrast.
Use other tools such as zoom/crop, rotate, white borders, and shadows to make your photos look just right.
Best of all, see the changes to your photos in real-time right on the page of your book.
Picaboo 2.0 is packed with even more new features and options, such as:
• Padded covers
• Print quality warning
• Faster loading order pages
• Microsoft Photo Gallery integration
Touching and Feeling
Available in 5-by-7 inch horizontal and vertical formats, and 4-by-8 inch horizontal format, Picaboo cards are printed on double-sided glossy, archival-quality 100 lb card stock.
For more information, click here.
For pricing information, visit:
http://www.picaboo.com/cards/optionspricing.html
Print Explosion Deluxe 3.0 Makes Greeting Cards
Print Explosion Deluxe is an easy, fast way to create one-of-a-kind custom greeting cards, signs, banners and more. It's easy to use, so you don't need to be a computer whiz. And with more than 8,800 ready-made professional designs for virtually every occasion under the sun, you don't need to be an artist either. Print Explosion Deluxe was designed exclusively with the Macintosh in mind. So you know it works like a Mac program should. And that puts Print Explosion Deluxe in a class of its own.
Print Explosion Deluxe's easy-to-use interface will guide you through the process from concept to finished product in a matter of just minutes! It is ideal for first-time publishers and professional designers alike because it contains rich graphics, layout features, and text effects not found in many other programs at ten times the cost.
Optimized for both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs, Print Explosion Deluxe 3.0 features an enhanced user interface, thousands of new projects and complete integration with iTunes and iPhoto. You can even use the new mail merge feature to automatically personalize and send greeting cards to people in your Mac OS X Address Book.
Create one-of-a-kind custom greeting cards, signs, banners and more. With more than 8,800 ready-made professional designs for virtually every occasion under the sun, you don't need to be an artist either. Print Explosion Deluxe was designed exclusively with the Macintosh in mind. So you know it works like a Mac program should. And that puts Print Explosion Deluxe in a class of its own. Print Explosion Deluxe's easy-to-use interface will guide you through the process from concept to finished product in a matter of just minutes! It is ideal for first-time publishers and professional designers alike because it contains rich graphics, layout features, and text effects not found in many other programs at ten times the cost.
Print Explosion will pay for itself in no time. You’ll save a bundle on greeting cards, labels, and other projects, not to mention the hours spent trying to find that perfect card.
• 3 Easy Steps
• 13,000+ Readymade Designs
• 100,000+ Premium-Quality Graphics
• 900+ Fonts
• 8,500 Quotations
• 750-Page Printed Catalog
• More than 3,000 Greeting Card Designs Now with Electronic Greetings!
• Templates for Avery, PaperDirect, and Idea Art Paper Products
• Hundreds of Dazzling Text Effect Combinations
• Dozens of Special Effects for Graphics
• Works with All Macintosh-Compatible Printers
New Features:
• Personalize Cards and Flyers with Mail Merge
• Create real-time previews and save JPEGs from your project completely controlling the quality versus compression
• Built in Quotation Library where you can search for any word or by Author.
• Increased document handling speed making the program faster and easier to use
• Redesigned user interface to improve your work flow. Now you can customize the text in a project while in the application assistant!
• Publish many of your projects to HTML
• Send Email Greetings to your friends using your email client
• Content has been re-organized to allow easier and much faster browsing with the new project preview pane.
Variety:
• Easy-to-use Software to Create Greeting Cards, Signs, Banners and More
• Matching Letterheads, Envelopes and Business Cards
• Create Your Own Custom T-shirts and Mousepads!
• Includes CD Labeling
• Hundreds of Invitations, and Electronic Greetings.
• Hundreds of Label Designs, All Compatible with Avery Products
• Unique Crafts and Party Sets
• Plus Signs, Posters, Banners, Certificates, Postcards, Invitations, Announcements, Flyers, Cover Sheets and More!
Fast, Easy and Convenient:
• Import Virtually Any Graphics File, Including EPS, PICT, TIFF, JPEG and GIF
• Scan in Family Photos and Other Artwork Using Print Explosion's TWAIN-Compliant Scanning Technology
• Print Your Own Custom Font Catalog
• Print Your Own Graphics Catalog
Print Explosion was designed exclusively with the Macintosh in mind:
• Full Support for EPS Graphics - Even on Non-PostScript Inkjet Printers
• Apple Navigation Services Makes Opening and Saving Projects a Snap
• Drag and Drop Graphics from Other Applications into Print Explosion Documents
• Complete Help System, Including AppleGuide, AppleHelp and Balloon Help
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.2 or Later
• PowerPC G3 (or faster) or Intel Core processor
• 512 MB of RAM
• DVD or CD-ROM Drive
System support:
PPC/Intel
Print Explosion Deluxe sells for $49.95
For more information, visit:
http://tinyurl.com/ya36ykp
The Print Shop 2.0.5 Greeting Card Creation And Editing Tool
The Print Shop is a complete greeting card creation and editing tool. Import your own photographs directly into The Print Shop from Apple's iPhoto and then fix, edit and enhance them using The Print Shop's built-in Photo Workshop. Crop in shapes such as circles, hearts and stars. Adjust color, brightness, contrast, and sharpness. Fix flaws and get rid of red-eye and scratches. Apply custom effects such as pixelate, noise, emboss, antique, and more.
New in version 2.0.5:
• Enhanced iCal compatibility
• Improved networking and file saving
• Includes all previous The Print Shop updates
Now you can get the precision you need with rulers, grids and guidelines! It's all tied together in a handy Layout Palette that includes "snap to" functionality and the most common alignment tools.
Create a multipage project from 2 to 32 pages. Great for making annual reports, family newsletters, sales materials, menus and much more!
There are now more than twice as many Special Edges and Transparent Effects to turn your projects into masterpieces!
Thousands of photos and fine art images on a separate Art CD.
No more fussing with navigation: Just open iPhoto, select as many photos as you like, and drag them all at once into your project!
No more spoiled off-center label printing with the new Precision Print Alignment
"Nudge" feature which lets you get set it just right.
Now you can get the precision you need with rulers, grids and guidelines! It's all tied together in a handy Layout Palette that includes "snap to" functionality and the most common alignment tools.
Mac OS X 10.4 users can take advantage of Tiger's Spotlight search capabilities tosearch for documents made in The Print Shop by project type, text in text blocks and headlines, and even by Avery label
In addition to Avery you can now use CD Stomper, NEATO and Memorex CD and jewel case stock.
System requirements:
The Print Shop 2.0 - any version,
Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
System support
Intel
For more information, visit:
http://www.mackiev.com/print_shop.html
FontMarketplace.com Debuts New Holiday Card Font Packs
FontMarketplace.com is introducing specially-priced sets of fonts with matching Microsoft Word templates for Hanukkah Cards, Christmas Cards and other holiday projects.
Ascender Corporation, a leading provider of advanced font products, today announced two new consumer font packages for the holidays available exclusively from its fontmarketplace.com website. The Hanukkah Card Kit and the Christmas Card Kit each contain five selected holiday-themed fonts matched with five expertly-designed Microsoft Word greeting card templates.
"We developed each kit to appeal to home & office computer users who want to create and print their own cards, newsletters, party invitations, gift tags or other craft projects this holiday season" said Steve Kuhlman, Vice President of Ascender Corp. "Both the Hanukkah Card Kit and Christmas Card Kit lets users make their own personalized cards using pre-designed Microsoft Word templates formatted with fonts that best reflects their own personality."
The packages are specially priced at $9.99 with a single user license and are available for immediate download from the fontmarketplace.com website. The price represents a savings of almost $20 compared to buying all these fonts individually. Each kit is available with an automated installer for Microsoft Windows XP or Vista, or as a compressed .zip file for Mac OS or other systems.
The Ascender Christmas Card Kit contains a wonderful set of Certified TrueType fonts that are well-suited for Christmas and all year-round matched with five Christmas Card templates ready for customizing in Microsoft Word. The five fonts are: Artcraft, Centaur Swash, Colonna, French Script and Thor.
The Ascender Hanukkah Card Kit contains five distinctive fonts matched with a distinctive set of Hanukkah card Microsoft Word templates. The fonts in the package are Atrax, Caslon Titling, Colmcille Italic, Dorchester Script and Lydian.
FontMarketplace.com features affordably-priced, professional quality fonts packaged individually and in sets, organized by occasion, personality, project and type style. The website offers a wide variety of popular type styles from text and display to script fonts, and an assortment of multilingual fonts, all displayed in creative ways to showcase the fonts in use. The FontMarketplace.com website was designed to make it easy for first time font buyers and creative enthusiasts to browse, download and install fonts. All of the fonts are Certified TrueType fonts, developed and tested by the font experts at Ascender Corp.
Ascender also provides fonts for download to graphic designers through the http://www.AscenderFonts.com website and to creative enthusiasts through the http://www.FontMarketplace.com website.
For more information, visit:
http://www.ascendercorp.com
and
http://www.fontmarketplace.com
Charles W. Moore
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