November 13, 2004 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 Wastewater for agriculture: health risks Today about 47 per cent of the world’s population lives in urban areas. It consumes vast quantities of water. As the consumption of water mounts with the passage of time, many... BYTEBACK Ringtones creator Is there is any software that makes it possible to compose ringtones? Zain Barkatali Rattani... Securing the big fix IT has been two months since Microsoft rolled out their big fix — Service Pack 2 (SP2), for the Windows XP operating system. With millions of computer systems expected to have... WEBWATCH Here is a chance for you to spruce up your documents. Be it an Excel sheet, a Word document, or a PowerPoint presentation, you'll have a template that you can use or modify to fit your need perfectly.... The man who lit up the mountains Every day two billion people in many developing countries have to live without electricity. There is little or no electric lighting, which impedes learning and causes health and sanitation problems. Thus... Biotechnology applications in Third World countries The global population is all set cross 7000 million by the year 2020 — an alarming figure by any stretch of imagination and the world food production must at least double... Over-clocking your PC — I Back in 2003, when AMD launched its new Athlon-64 line of CPUs (the only 64 Bit desktop processor to date), there was barely anything for the 64-bit stand. Even today, AMD... Exploring Haft Talar Despite the name given to the island by locals, Haft Talar (meaning ‘seven rocks’), also known as Astola, appears to form a single block roughly three miles in length and... ‘Blue Gene’ supercomputer breaks speed record With performance almost double that of the Earth Simulator, in Yokohama, Japan, IBM’s Blue Gene/L was officially ranked first on the Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers. IBM built four... Scientists close in on source of cosmic rays An international team of astronomers believe they have solved a mystery that has been perplexing scientists for 100 years — the origin of cosmic rays.... NEWSBITS Major threats to eco-region identified Aggravating water quality, besides short supply of freshwater, land clearance and over-harvesting of resources, are among major risks... New computer centres to be set up in interior Sindh The Sindh Minister for Education, Dr Hamida Khuhro, has announced setting up computer learning and teachers training centres at district and taluka levels throughout the province.... The internet: what it’s all about The internet has become such a huge part of our daily lives that for many of us it’s hard to imagine a time when it didn’t exist. If we can’t remember... COOL GADGETS Smart phone TECHA Nokia 9300 Professional Smartphone is shown at the Nokia Capital Market Day event, a conference for investors and industry watchers in New York, November 4....

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