History

Napoleon Killed by Stomach Cancer?
Napoleon died Bonaparte of a gastric cancer advanced rather that the arsenic envenenamiento, since some had speculated, the scientists of the opinion....

Antarctic Explorer's Letters Revealed
Knowing he was to days of the death in a tragic one emigrates behind the post of the south in 1912, captain Roberto Falcon Scott wrote to his wife that "we are in a corner very tightened and I have doubts to throw to traverse." Nevertheless, it assured to Kathleen Scott, he faced his end without ...


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FONTS

True type Fonts
True type fonts are digital font technology designed by Apple computers and now used by both Apple and Microsoft.

Clear type Fonts
Clear type is a software technology developed by Microsoft that improves the readability of text on existing LCD’s (Liquid Crystal Display) such as (Laptops screens, pocket PC screens and flat panel monitors). With clear type font technology the words on the computer look almost sharp and clear as those printed on a paper.

Create copy protected DVD

here's how to create a copy protected DVD on your own. U can also add region encoding.
It is done using Adobe Encore DVD 2.0

Read this article
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/encore/articles/enc2am_regioncode.html

Ferrari wallpapers

great ferrari wall papers - ones you would luv on your desktops

Install Internet Explorer 7 without any WGA checks

Simple steps to install Internet Explorer 7(IE 7) without any WGA checks.
1. First Download Internet Explorer 7 installer from the Microsoft website and use Winrar to unpack the files contained in the installer to a dir on your hard drive.
2. Next download the iecustom.dll file and replace the orginal file in the upload folder with the one you have downloaded.
3. Next run update.exe from within the update folder and choose to restart at a later time.
4. Download another dll normaliz.dll and copy it into your system32 directory, restart your computer afterwards.
5. Run xmllitesetup.exe which is located in the update folder as well. Restart your computer once more, once this is done the new IE 7 is ready to use.
You might run into troubles that normaliz.exe can’t be found on your system after the first reboot. If that is the case do the following.
Press ctrl-alt-del to go to the task manager. Go to “File -> Run” in the task manager. Type: ‘cmd’ and push enter. The command prompt window will appear. Type: ‘copy c:\normaliz.dll c:\windows\system32\normaliz.dll’

Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs

Windows XP Tips And Tricks

How to decrease scandisk delay time ?

Sick of waiting for disk check after a sudden shut downof windows. Change the scan-disk delay time-out by using this method :

Click start, type in "cmd" and click ok.

Type CHKNTFS/T:3. This will reduce the time-out to 3 seconds. You can change the value as desired

Windows XP Faster Start-up

Click Start.Click Run.Type "msconfig" and press enter key.On the Startup tab click Disable All and on the Services tab check the Hide All Microsoft Service box and then click Disable All. Click Restart and Windows XP will restart with only the system services and applications running resulting in a vey fast startup

To change first desktop icon ?

System Key [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}]

Value Name SortOrderIndex

Data Type REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)

Value Data (0x48 = My Documents, 0x54 = My Computer)

Exit registry editor, restart Windows

Change Start Menu Speed
Open registry. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Contro Panel\desktop. Look for "MenuShowDelay".

Change the Delay value default 400 as you like. The value is delay in milliseconds.

Lesser is the value faster is the start menu display. Exit and restart windows.

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Tata Corus

Tata Steel is set to become the world`s fifth-biggest steel maker after winning a bid battle for Anglo-Dutch steel maker Corus Group by agreeing to pay 5.75 billion pounds (USD 11.3 billion).
Britain`s Takeover Panel said in an e-mailed statement that after an auction Tata Steel had agreed to offer Corus investors 608 pence per share in cash, topping a final bid of 603 pence from Brazilian Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (CSN).
Both offers were right at the top end of what analysts had thought possible and will now be put to Corus investors, who have no reason not to accept the higher price.
Corus was not immediately available for comment.
The auction process, following a takeover tussle that began in earnest when Tata Steel offered 455 pence per share on Oct. 20, started at the close of trading in London on Tuesday when Corus shares ended 0.5 percent higher at 563 pence.
CSN and Tata Steel were keen to buy Corus to become significant players in the consolidating steel industry, where Dutch-based Mittal Steel last year bought Luxembourg`s Arcelor to create the world`s biggest steelmaker, Arcelor Mittal.
The 608 pence Tata Steel is set to pay values Corus at around seven times its forecast earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) for 2006, well above the multiple Mittal Steel paid for Arcelor which was 4.6 times historic EBITDA.
Ahead of the auction, called last week by the Takeover Panel to bring the bid battle to an end, CSN had the upper hand after it had made a bid worth 4.9 billion pounds ($9.6 billion) or 515 pence per share, accepted by Corus on Dec. 11, hours after it had accepted a 500 pence offer from Tata Steel.
The battle pushed Corus`s share price to seven-year highs and pitted 70-year-old Tata group chairman Ratan Tata, from one of India`s best-known business families, against Benjamin Steinbruch who at 52 is one of Brazil`s most famous executives as chief executive and main owner of CSN.
Ratan Tata has transformed the once-staid Tata group since taking over as chairman in 1991. He has cut the number of companies in the group from over 300, and acquired new businesses with growth potential.
Tata Steel has spent more than $400 million in recent years to buy Singapore`s NatSteel and Thailand`s Millennium Steel, and other group companies have also made acquisitions outside India.
For CSN`s part, its 603 pence offer marks the second time in five years it has failed to buy Corus.
In 2002, CSN openly held talks with Corus about a tie-up but ended up backing off because of concerns about the European company`s financial health.
Steinbruch set his sights on Corus again last year after CSN lost out to Chicago-based steel services group Esmark in a showdown for U.S. steelmaker Wheeling-Pittsburgh Corp.
On Tuesday, Tata Steel reported a 41 percent jump in net third-quarter profit to 10.63 billion rupees.
Sterling, which has been nudging the $2 mark for several weeks, could get a boost from the deal as Tata Steel looks to buys pounds to pay Corus`s British shareholders.
(courtesy: zee news)