So, you've got a little drum beat going and you'd like to spice it up with a melody.

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Then, spice it up by learning how to make salsa... or to shake the salsa, if you prefer stilettos to seasonings.

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Based on the Book of Exodus, with an interfaith love story added to spice things up, it depicts three of the plagues and the parting of the Red Sea all of which can be headaches for a producer.

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The military uses similar chemicals in its rockets, only it gets to spice up the mix a bit by adding nitroglycerine-based explosives to the fuel, making them about 20% more powerful than sophisticated hobby engines.

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The three new cameras all come equipped with Picture Effect settings that make it easy to spice up photos, movies and panoramas instantly and automatically with a range of fun, impressive artistic treatments like Toy Camera, Pop Color, Soft High Key and Partial Color.

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The people at SocialMail, however, are trying to spice up that dusty inbox by making it public.

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It's not like we really rely on Sotec to spice things up on the PC front, but we're still a little disappointed in the distinct lack of interestingness going on here in Sotec's new "e-three" series.

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"It's nice to throw those elements in to kind of spice things up, " Levine said.

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SonicBlue, however, hasn't stood still: This week it announced two new players, the Rio S10 and the S30S, to spice things up.

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