I just picked up a Dell E198WFP display to use with my MacBook Pro. Any colour calibration tips?

I just picked up a Dell E198WFP display to use with my MacBook Pro. Any colour calibration tips?
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I can’t find it, but if you search lifehacker you’ll find the article that they had maybe a month ago about color calibration. They had some great program (windows and mac compatible) to calibrate all the screens perfectly. Search around and hopefully you’ll find it!
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