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Science.com

May 31, 2008

Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
This page is updated every Saturday.

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COVER STORY: Lights, camera, visualisation
This is the era of animations, graphics and visual effects. Depictions of the fantastic flying superheroes, ferocious velociraptors and battling starships rely on software to maintain the audience’s suspension of disbelief....
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Interview
The concept of using graphics and animations in Pakistani movies is still a very novel idea. Very few movies have even ventured in that direction, but that is not to say that Pakistanis world over are not making a mark in the field. One such example is Mir Zafar Ali.....
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GAME ON: Polishing the old
Final Fantasy XII: Inter-national Zodiac Job System (FF:IZJS for short) is an expansion pack of Final Fantasy XII (both games are Playstation 2 exclusives). Final Fantasy XII was one of the most critically acclaimed video games of 2006 and many call it the best Final Fantasy game ever made....
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Q’N’A: Byteback
I plan to buy the following components to build up a gaming rig.AMD Athlon 64X2 4200, MSI K9N6PGM1-F1 motherboard, 1GB KINGSTON Ram and 160GB WD, SATA II hard disk and GeForce 9600 GT 512MB graphics card.......
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TECHNOLOGY BUZZ: Colouring memories
First, lets see why we chose this scanner over the others. To begin with, both CanoScan Lide 70 and liDE 90 are a 2400 gx.dpi x 4800 dpi solution. Although the LiDE series is good for budget conscious users with the LiDE 90 especially being a very good scanner...
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Cool Gadgets
Head mounted video systems, though not extremely popular as yet, show promise of becoming the next big thing in the portable media market. What makes the i-Bean different from other head mounted systems is that it is not a pair of goggles...
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MAKING HISTORY: Marster landing
At first, the probe checked itself over, taking snapshots of its dusty feet and freshly unfurled solar arrays, ensuring all was present and correct following its 675m km journey and high-speed descent on to the northern plains of Mars in the early hours the 26th of this month....
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BETWEEN THE LINES: Limits undefined
Diamonds are a woman’s best friend. Right? Wrong. Diamonds have now been replaced by computers which are now officially every man, woman and kid’s best friends. We all saw it coming, the technology boom which has now escalated beyond control....
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TIPS AND TRICKS: Google searches made-to-order
W hen it comes to search engines, Google is undoubtedly most widely used. And for customised searches, the option of Advanced Search allows users to specify sites to be searched as well. But if you find yourself searching the same sites over and over again...
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BY THE WAY: Funny people, funnier thoughts
They made lives easy for us with their wonderful inventions and they are an inspirations for many. Yet, these bright people had their queer moments too. Here is a peek at them.....
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DOT COM: Time for a racquet
It is that time of the year again when the prowess and skills of all the tennis players are tested on the clay courts. The second Grand Slam in the series of four already kicked off around the end of May and will continue up to the first week...
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From Far and Wide
Anil Ambani, chairman of India’s Reliance Communications Ltd, did not wait for an auspicious moment to declare his interest in South Africa’s MTN Group, just an opportune one.Just two days after his firm’s bigger rival Bharti Airtel pulled out of talks....
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FUNINTENDED: Vista denied
Microsoft has really outdone itself in delivering a brand new operating system that really excels in all the areas where Microsoft has been the king for eons, namely developing OS which are slow, sluggish and do not work.....
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CAREERS: Agricultural engineering Food for thought
Given that Pakistan is an agricultural country and a large part of its economy depends on agriculture, one would think that a career in this field would be a feasible option. Unfortunately, this is not the case.....
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