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Everything is available on the Net, so goes the popular belief. But if you have to find anything, you have to use a "search engine." These "engines" have names like Google, Alta Vista, Excite, Lycos, and all of them use specifically designed software to cull answers to your queries from the Net maze. Kuljit Bains takes a look at the working of search engines and explains how to use them optimally.

 

Press Shift + F10 for context menu
by Vipul Verma
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OST persons often customise themselves according to the default Windows settings rather than customising Windows according to their needs. One common example of this could be the case of Auto-play function in some CDs. Many persons who wish to explore the CD, which is designed for auto-play, either wait for the CD to load itself first or try to stop playing it by whatever means.

Animation in forensic science
by
Sumesh Raizada
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ODAY computers are used by a number of illustrators, cartoonists or painters for their work. Those especially from creative arts, work on the computers with equal ease and translate their ideas into computer-generated pictures, movies or sounds.

HTML replaces chalk and blackboard in IIT
by Frederick Noronha
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NNOVATION is helping educators from across the globe to try out new solutions for old problems. ICTs (information and communication technologies) are helping to make classrooms more interesting, and concepts easier to convey.

Dotcom entrepreneur plans ‘cybrary’
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ADIO, television, radar, computers... now Britain can announce another innovation, this time in the world of e-science, with plans for the world’s first ‘cybrary’, or cyber-library.

SOFTWARE
Indian software firms hit
by R. Arackaparambil
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ACED with lower global tech spending, Indian software companies, which had been trying to move up the value chain, are reverting to mundane work like maintenance and systems integration to keep the order books flowing.

‘Private exchanges in, B2B out’
by Peeyush Agnihotri
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NDIAN software companies that were trying to move up the value chain, are reverting to mundane work like maintenance and systems integration to keep the order books flowing.

ON HARDWARE
Win ’98 can recognise 9 monitors

by Chiranjeev Pal Singh
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ONFIGURE more than one video output for your Windows 98 PC Windows 98’s built-in support for multiple monitors allows you to connect more than one monitor to your system and stretch your desktop from one monitor to another.

MP3 beat
From rare to the latest

Cyber Kids
Portal for young scientists

Kids Chat
Go e-shopping with sister for rakhi gift

Newsscape
2000-01 healthiest

Dr Tribune
Help for your computing problems

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