July 13, 2002 Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World. This page is updated every Saturday. For current issue Click here Intelligence and the X-factor The saying “behind every successful man stands a woman” could have scientific backing now. And it probably wouldn’t help make men feel better to find out that this is a new... Virtual University: now a reality We have seen it in futuristic Hollywood films: students sitting at their computer terminals, checking their lessons online, sending their queries to the instructors through e-mails. They learn through statistical variables... BYTEBACK Universe matter How come there is more matter in the universe than antimatter... How to use Office2000 themes in documents Microsoft Office 2000 package comes with a number of features. One of the useful features is the use of variety of themes and design templates in shared Office applications. It... Cricket 2002: pure fun Another year, another cricketing title hits our shelves. However, the low standards generally always makes one revert to the good old classics. Not this year.... WEBWATCH Take in the beauty of the African continent, including its wildlife and its sunsets, on Africam.com's collection of web cams.... Napster rulez! Ninety nine per cent of all music files that existed online, in 2001, were illegal. This startling revelation came in light of the annual report of the International Federation of Phonograph... Creating a navigation bar Navigation means direction-finding or map reading. Web developers use it to give surfers basic information and an overview of their website.... A malicious worm hits .gov.pk sites A recent attempt by Indian virus writers was the W32/Yaha-E worm, which was aimed at attacking the Pakistan government website’s network.... TECH UPDATE IBM is expanding its “buy-as-you-need” utility approach to Linux on the mainframe. IBM announced it will offer customers capacity as needed... SCIENCE UPDATE Astronomers say there could be billions of Earths in our galaxy, the Milky Way. Their assessment comes after the discovery of the 100th exoplanet... NEWSBITS Computers of the future could be controlled by eye movements, rather than a mouse or keyboard. Scientists at Imperial College, London... Dotcomics: comics on the internet If you think that comic strips are just for kids, think again. Comic strips have long been regarded as a kind of literature in themselves, and there are clubs and mailing... NEW PRODUCTS Apple’s iMac is designed around a 15-inch LCD flat screen. Inside its ultra-compact 27cm base lives a Pentium 800MHz PowerPC G4 processor...

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