Articles from the ‘Science’ category
Posted by Contributor on May 13, 2009 at 5:43 pm in Science
Using examples from 60 countries, the 4th eLearning Africa conference, Africa’s largest event for learning technologies, will show how Information and Communication Technologies are helping African countries to reach the Millennium Goal of education for all. The eLearning Africa conference, which is to be held May 27th – 29th in Dakar, Senegal, will bring together [...]
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Posted by Contributor on May 12, 2009 at 8:16 am in Science
Ghana and Burkina Faso are to collaborate on infrastructure, tariff and regulatory mechanisms sharing in the interconnection of fibre optic networks between the two countries, which is expected to be completed by 2012. To this end, Ghana would spend over 40 million dollars as its contribution, while Burkina Faso would also provide over [...]
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Posted by Contributor on May 11, 2009 at 2:23 pm in Science
When surfing the web, most users tend to use the built-in Internet Explorer that comes with Windows. Depending on which version of Windows you’re running, you might even still be stuck with a very old version of IE. But you don’t need to stay there — and shouldn’t, as a lot of today’s websites [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 2:20 pm in Science
Article By: Gideon Nieuwoudt Windows’ right-click menu often comes in handy for certain shortcuts, but wouldn’t it be nice to be able to customise this menu? With ‘Filemenu Tools’ you can do exactly that. It’s a small utility that adds a number of extra commands to the right-click menu, while also giving you the [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 2:20 pm in Science
If you use Microsoft Word quite a lot and like to use the keyboard shortcuts for formatting, then it can be very useful to be able to specify your own. Personally I use the "Paste Special" function a lot, so I’ll use that as an example of how to set up a shortcut key for [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 2:01 pm in Science
Article By: Gideon Nieuwoudt Why would anyone want to completely wipe their hard drive, you ask? Well, for one, if you ever throw your old PC out (or donate it), it’s a good idea to make sure that it’s completely clean to protect yourself against identity theft, amongst other things. Yes, you could format [...]
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Posted by Contributor on May 9, 2009 at 9:04 am in Local News, Science
Miss Alica Sampah, President of the Hair Dressers Association in Elmona has advised all hairdressers in the Central Region to avoid using one “weaveon†weaving needle for more than one client to avoid infections. Sampah disclosed this after noticing that some hairdressers have used the same needle on multiple women when placing weaves.. Sampah also [...]
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Posted by GNA on May 5, 2009 at 9:00 am in Environment, Science
Participants at a round-table on Monday agreed that Climate Change issues were real and a fact in Ghana and called on government to implement measures to deal with it since it could affect the agricultural sector as well as the economy. An unscientific poll conducted during the discussion showed that 80 percent of the participants [...]
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