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Comic Sans may improve your reading retention, says study
TheNextWeb Jun 02 11A study has found that fonts which are regarded as ‘hard to read’ may actually increase readers’ retention of information. Researchers from Indiana University and Princeton have described two experiments they conducted that appear to demonstrate that reading retention improves when a ‘hard to read’ font is used. The reason is that the extra concentration [...] Full story...
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Apple re-releases iOS 5.1.1 update for iPhone 4 GSM units only -
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