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COVER STORY: Standing tall
 The recent earthquake in China brought back the horrific memories of the devastation that Pakistan had faced in October 2005. Even now, people living in the Northern areas are picking up pieces of their lives as they try to settle down in a regular routine....
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DOT COM: Forward me not
 Open your inbox at any given time of the day and night, and there is a likely chance that you will find at least one forwarded email. There is an equally likely chance that you will trash it without giving it a second look....
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Q’N’A: Byteback
I recently bought the game Brian Lara Cricket 2007 and installed it on my 2.53GHz Compaq Evo D510C coupled with a 512MB Ram and 256MB Inno3D GeForce FX 5500 graphics card. The problem is that the game jerks.....
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TO MOTHER NATURE WITH LOVE: Powered day and night
 With electricity becoming a scarcity and Pakistan now resorting to various means to save energy, perhaps it is high time that we look to renewable energies to come to our rescue. The total installed electricity generation capacity of Pakistan is 19,500MW....
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TECHNOLOGY BUZZ: Say cheese
 I am an ardent fan of Nikon products which is why I was rooting most for the Nikon L5 when I set out to review the cameras in our markets for this week. However, with the L5 camera, Nikon did not even try to impress. Nikon’s Coolpix L5 holds....
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Cool Gadgets
 The Energy Saver Remote works for all your audio visual devices and switches them off instead of putting them on standby mode, thus saving power. The Energy Saver Remote has an on/off power plug that allows a user to plug all their major AV appliances into it....
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BYTE PARK CORNER: Check before you type
 Google''s free email service, Gmail, revolutionised web-based email services trouncing both Hotmail and Yahoo! from their respective thrones when it was launched on April 1, 2004. It offered a mammoth one gigabyte of free space...
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TIPS AND TRICKS: Fontification
 There are times when you wish you could use a font so different and individual that it would leap out of the screen. Like all things different you wish for a custom-made font that would scream of originality....
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Open up
 The web-based file conversion service Zamzar has saved my bacon on a number of occasions. There are times when you want to go through a file but get stuck because you do not have the software to open it....
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From far and wide
 The addition of Genentech Inc’s cancer drug Avastin to chemotherapy slows the progress of breast cancer, according to results of a large international trial released on Saturday, The trial showed that after 11 months, patients treated with a high dose....
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GAME ON: Hooked to chains
 After serving the gods and trying to escape from his tormented past on the Playstation 2, Kratos, the ghost of Sparta, finally makes his presence felt on the PSP in his latest adventure God of War: Chains of Olympus....
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Planting for a cleaner world
In the search for renewable energy, turning low-value materials like switchgrass and corn husks into ethanol to fuel cars is something of a Holy Grail. In theory, these materials would replace corn as the main feedstock for ethanol in North America...
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