February 8, 2003 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 Harnessing tidal energy for power generation This article is about the feasibility of making a tidal generator by using low tide and high tide available at the coastal areas of Pakistan. But, first, let’s understand the principle... BYTEBACK DDR (dial on demand routing) is known to be used with ISDN. Can we use DDR with frame relay... How CSS works in web pages Cascading style sheet mechanism allows us to attach style to HTML documents. HTML is a markup language but the way we use HTML to create our web pages make us believe... Decapitalizing ‘Internet’ SOMETHING will be missing when Joseph Turow’s book about families and the internet is published by MIT Press this spring: The capital “I” that usually begins the word “Internet.”... WEBWATCH Here is an amazing award-winning site for science enthusiasts. It includes most comprehensive information for middle-school science students... KU teacher develops Urdu text miner Tafseer Ahmed, a 28-year-old software engineer and lecturer of Computer Science at University of Karachi, has developed an Urdu Text Miner. The software comprises three modules: summarizer, keyword detector and... New gadgets galore at Consumer Electronic Show 2003 If the electronic industry had its way, sometime later this year we will be playing video games in the bathroom, whispering instead of shouting into mobile phone, and going round with... When you cannot do simple calculations More often we heard from the parents that their children have the learning difficulties in any combination of the basic skills or in some applications area. Difficulties in learning can affect... Saving Earth, averting Doomsday At the turning point in time when science has made many science-fiction ideas take shape in fact, one sometimes wonders what scientists will come up with next. In an effort to... TECH UPDATE Advanced Micro Devices has said that it was again delaying the release of its next-generation Athlon microprocessor for desktop and mobile personal computers, but is on track with its Opteron version for servers.... SCIENCE UPDATE A simple blood test may soon be able to predict how long we will live. For some time scientists have thought that the ageing process is governed by tiny structures found at the ends of the chromosomes called telomeres.... NEWSBITS Nasa’s spacecraft and satellites could soon have their own net address. The space agency is working on a project to make it easier to retrieve data from spacecraft and satellites in orbit or deep space and is turning to net data protocols to help.... Parents’ concerns about the net The internet was built as a command tool for the army with decentralized structure in order to survive a wartime attack. It meant to enable commanders at all tires to communicate... COOL GADGETS The first combination cell phone and PDA to run Microsoft’s Pocket PC Phone Edition is now available, taking a decidedly PDA-centric approach to its tasks....

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