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"It's time to write my new year's resolutions!" Dan the technical writer
thought.
After a few minutes of contemplation, he wrote:
1) Stop eating fried food (on weekdays)
2) Take more time to respond to the tech-whirlers
3) Learn all about SnagIt
Dan looked at #3 and realized that even though he'd made that resolution
numerous times, TechSmith, Inc kept improving SnagIt by adding more
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during 2002. He logged onto TechSmith's site and read about how SnagIt
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about it than I do cutting back on fried food."
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