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The Greatest Windows Tips of All Time

By on January 3rd, 2010

PCWORLD -  Whether you’re a Windows vet or a relative newcomer, you can always use a trick or two for making things go faster. We’ve compiled our favorite time-saving tips for Windows XP, Vista, and 7. Print out this story and keep it on your desk.
Classic Windows Tips
Toggle between apps: Use Alt-Tab to switch open programs without touching your mouse. The oldest–and still the best–Windows timesaver.
Navigate app windows: Press Ctrl-Tab to cycle through an application’s windows (or through a Web browser’s tabs). First cousin of the tip above, and probably the most underrated tip ever.

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Online journalism

By on January 2nd, 2010

In 2009 audiences for online journalism continued to grow. In 2008, for the first time, more people reported getting their national and international news from the internet, rather than newspapers, and audiences to news sites continued to grow due to the launch of new sites, and it was continued growth in internet audiences overall, with new people discovering the internet’s advantages for convenience, speed and depth.
However, the professional online news industry is increasingly gloomy about its financial future.

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Die nackte Wahrheit

By on December 30th, 2009

Worauf hat sie wirklich Lust? Men’s Health fragte 2500 Frauen, wie sie es im Bett gerne hätten. So erfüllen Sie alle Ihre Sex-Wünsche.
30 Prozent stehen auf ein bisschen Romantik
Frauen lieben die drei K: Kochen, Kerzen, Kuscheln. Aber nicht auf Rituale versteifen, sonst wird Romantik schnell öde, abwechslung macht’s – mal kuschelig, mal abenteuerlich.
50 Prozent möchten beim Sex das Sagen haben
Jede Zweite will im Bett das Kommando übernehmen – hätten Sie das gedacht? Also, lassen Sie die Frau das Programm bestimmen. Sagen Sie ihr, dass sie Stellung und Ort aussuchen soll, dann fällt ihr der erste Schritt leichter. Continue reading Die nackte Wahrheit →

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Russia’s love for Stalin

By on December 27th, 2009

On last Monday, hundreds of admirers of the former Soviet leader lined up in Moscow’s Red Square to lay wreaths at his grave, in honor of the 130th anniversary of his birth.
Ivan Melnikov of Russia’s Communist Party, the deputy parliament speaker, wrote on his party’s website, “We would very much like for any discussion of the mistakes of the Stalin epoch to be silenced today, so that people can reflect on Stalin’s personality as a creator, a thinker and a patriot.”

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Parliament legalized gay civil unions

By on December 13th, 2009

lesbisch gehen

The same-sex couples will be able to formalise their relationships from 1 January 2010

The final vote was 64 against the bill, and 110 in favour, reports the Associated Press.
“We are living in the 21st century and I’m very glad this step is being taken today,” said Justice Minister Claudia Bandion-Ortner on Friday.
While the new bill will give gay couples access to legal rights like a pension if one partner dies, it also formally bans the adoption of children or artificial insemination for same-sex couples.
And unlike straight couples, gay couples will not be able to record their unions at the civil registry office, but with another authority instead.

Photo by Galina Toktalieva

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Gender War in Vienna Town Hall

By on December 6th, 2009

Goldene Wien-Plakette für Johannes Heesters

Wien (APA) – Der Erste Präsident des Wiener Landtags, Prof. Harry Kopietz, übergab am Freitag Nachmittag im Wiener Rathaus in Anwesenheit der Wiener Umweltstadträtin Ulli Sima und zahlreichen hochrangigen Gästen aus dem Kulturleben dem beliebten Schauspieler, Sänger und Wien-Liebhaber Johannes Heesters die Goldene Wien-Plakette. Heesters sagte beim Eintreffen in den Steinsaal: “Ich freue mich sehr, im Wiener Rathaus zu sein.” “Jopie”, wie er von seinen Berliner Freunden auch genannt wird, feiert seinen 106 Geburtstag in Wien.

Gentlemen strike first

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