Canadian Huynh wins gold - Yahoo! Canada News
BEIJING (Reuters) - Carol Huynh gave Canada its first gold of the Beijing Olympic Games on Saturday in the women’s 48kg freestyle wrestling event.
Huynh, 27, defeated Japanese two-time world champion wrestler Chiharu Icho who took silver in wrestling’s lightest weight class. The score was 3-1.
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Loopholes that let you get Windows XP after June 30
Windows XP is dead … long live Windows XP. You may have heard that as of June 30, you’re no longer able to buy the operating system or obtain support for it. But that isn’t quite the case.
In fact, you’ll be able to buy XP on [...]
Whenever you open or save a file in Windows Vista, you typically get the standard dialog box which has shortcut locations on the left side. You can easily customize these locations to add or remove locations to best suit your needs. Here is how:
1. Open a dialog box (either a Save As [...]
Users find plenty of ways to run into trouble, from gunking up their system with shareware to leaving it exposed to attackers to forgetting about using surge protectors. Share this list with your own users so they can sidestep preventable problems like these.
Technology may be changing at a lightning-fast pace, but one thing remains constant: [...]
globeandmail.com: A real page turner
ANN ARBOR, Mich. In a dimly lit back room on the second level of the University of Michigan library’s book-shelving department, Courtney Mitchel helped a giant desktop machine digest a rare, centuries-old Bible.
Mitchel is among hundreds of librarians from Minnesota to England making digital versions of the most [...]
You can delete your old Friendster account and those embarrassing blog entries. But can you erase your online identity altogether?
Source: Globe & Mail
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“In his blog, SJ Klein, director of community content for OLPC, notes a collaboration among Creative Commons, One Laptop per Child, and TextbookRevolution.org. They are compiling together free and CC-licensed works — and they are asking for people to help them by submitting links to free books, movies, and music. Creative Commons will be burning [...]
Called Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, the new game will arrive in stores this summer, a surprise to many analysts and fans who had expected the next title to come out closer to the year-end holiday shopping season.
woot woot! GH just keeps getting better and better!!
Source: ZDNet News
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A private firm funded by Google Inc launched its Web-based DNA test in Europe on Tuesday, hoping to build on a successful start in the United States, where the $999 service went on sale in November.
Subscribers to 23andMe mail a saliva sample and, four to six weeks later, get the results online, allowing them to [...]
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