“One World One Dream”

Theme Slogan of Beijing Olympics 2008

It expresses the common wishes of people all over the world, inspired by the Olympic ideals, to strive for a bright future of Mankind. In spite of the differences in colors, languages and races, we share the charm and joy of the Olympic Games, and together we seek for the ideal of Mankind for peace.

Every emblem of the Olympics tells a story. The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games emblem “Chinese Seal, Dancing Beijing” is filled with Beijing’s hospitality and hopes, and carries the city’s commitment to the world.

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The Official Mascots

The mascots of Beijing 2008 are the five Fuwa, each representing both a colour of the Olympic Rings and a symbol of Chinese culture.

The Medal

The Beijing 2008 Olympic medal is designed with inspiration coming from “bi”, China’s ancient jade piece inscribed with dragon pattern.Obverse side of the medal and the ribbon–>

The Torch

The Beijing Olympic Torch boasts strong Chinese characteristics, and showcases Chinese design and technical capabilities.

Facts and Figures

Key Games Dates

Opening Ceremony Images Have a Look upon it!!

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2008 drummers performing @ opening ceremony–>

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Making the switch from PC to Mac and want to bring your iTunes library with you? There’s more than one way to skin this cat, but here’s a relatively painless method we used recently.

This article was written with iTunes 7 in mind. However, the principle should hold for moving comparable versions (ie iTunes 6 Win to iTunes 6 mac) or for moving upstream (iTunes 6 Win to iTunes 7 Mac). Also, the principles describe below also apply to simply moving your iTunes library from one computer to another, Mac-to-Mac, PC-to-PC, or any combination of the two. You can even use this method to clone an iTunes library from one computer to many others.

Mandatory condition!!!!!

• Your music files, be them mp3, aac or other, are all stored on your main (C:) drive, not an external hard drive.
• iTunes manages all your music files (ie all you music files are stored in the iTunes Music folder).
• -or-You are willing to have all your music files moved into your iTunes Music folder on your new Mac.

Here’s a quick method for migrating your iTunes library.

1. Setting the stage

2. If you have an iPod, make it cross-platform

3. Transfer purchased music to iTunes

4. Copying the rest of your music

5. Importing your library onto your Mac
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A set of overlapping tabs using just one very small image and a little extra markup. The selected tab is always on top and the hovered tabs come to the front but remain behind the selected tab. A line of descriptive text will appear in the line beneath the tabs.Clicking any of the tabs will reload the page with that tab shown selected.

Overlaps – a problem………

Overlapping navigation is a real problem in CSS with the box model and browser support. It is possible though. This technique is advanced CSS and the tutorial assumes a good level of understanding of both CSS and XTHML.

Avoid it if possible…….

If you can avoid it you should. It will be time consuming to produce and difficult to maintain. If you really need it or are just keen to see it done in CSS read on!

Creating CSS overlapping tabs……..

Sometimes simulating a real desktop interface for your web application can be a real challenge, especially when dealing with tabs. Side-to-side tabs are not easy to create in CSS, but overlapping tabs are even harder.view stylesheet

A personal mobile communication device which lets you be free and fun. It is light, simple and carefree. You can change its form according to your needs during the day.

Now, you’re not going to see this in stores any time soon. But if you’d like to get an idea of what Nokia thinks the future of communications will look like, take a look at the Nokia 888 communicator, a concept design that recently won Nokia’s Benelux design contest.

It is targeted to the young consumers who are likely to be active and take place in a lot of different activities.

Because they move and change place too much. They do a lot of different things during the day. So that’s what my design offers : to adjust to the moment, the place and the function.

The bracelet-like 888 is envisioned to use a liquid battery, feature speech recognition, a flexible touch screen, and a touch sensitive body cover. A video showing off the device’s potential features shows off close to a dozen functions, including an alarm clock, PDA, GPS, phone, push email receiver, digital wallet and, of course, jewelry. And, other than the “liquid battery,” we can actually see this in the not-too-distant future.

how the user interacts

E-motions… It means electronical motions that 888 has. You can send and receive forms from / to friends. You can send a heart shape to your girlfriend, so her telephone turns into an icon of heart. Or you can send a dancing form to your friends to call them to the party tonight. This is the fun side of the product. If we look from the functionality side, 888 is quite flexible. You can put it into your pocket, roll it and make it smaller, or put on your wrist when you want to make a video call on the go. If you want to talk like a normal telephone, there you have your telephone shape. We go through a lot of places and situations in the daily life, so it seems like one form is not enough.read more

The 122nd Championships came to the most magnificent of conclusions in near-darkness on Centre Court as Spain’s Rafael Nadal brought the five-time champion Roger Federer crashing to earth in the longest, and quite possibly the finest, men’s final in the history of The All England Club.

It was the 22-year-old Nadal, rather than Federer, who fell prone on the turf as flash bulbs went off in the gloom, in joyous celebration of capturing the title he has always said means more to him than any other. Nadal is only the second Spaniard, after Manolo Santana in 1966, to become Wimbledon’s Gentlemen’s Singles Champion, and it was fitting that Santana should witness this historic occasion from the Royal Box.

Though the final day was one of rain, gusting wind and a distinctly un-summer chill, the 2008 Championships were generally blessed with fine weather, while the skeletal outline of the nearly-completed roof over Centre Court was a stark reminder that next year the British climate will be irrelevant, at least on one of the All England Club’s courts.

For instance, the sun shone throughout the women’s final on the previous day in the third contest between the Williams sisters, Venus and Serena, in the past seven years. Serena had won in 2002 and 2003 but this time Venus was the victor, and deservedly so. The defending champion clocked up her fifth Wimbledon victory of the century – five in nine years, a truly marvelous accomplishment, which she emphasised in her 7-5, 6-4 win by shattering the Wimbledon women’s speed record with a serve of 129mph.

The American sisters had demonstrated familiar consistency and determination as they focused on dominating the women’s singles for another year while all around them the higher seeds were tumbling.

It was a disastrous Championships for the newly-emerging tennis nation, Serbia, as Ana Ivanovic and Jelena Jankovic, the number one and two seeds, crashed out in the third and fourth rounds respectively. Ivanovic, fresh from her triumph at the French Open, was confounded and defeated by Zheng Jie, a diminutive Chinese wild card entrant who had missed most of 2007 through ankle surgery but had been a 2006 doubles champion at Wimbledon.

Zheng, who marched into the semi-finals before falling to Serena Williams’s firepower, had warmed hearts by saying she intended to donate her prize money to the Chinese earthquake relief fund.

The 2006 champion, Amelie Mauresmo, down at 29th among the seeds, was also a victim of the Serena juggernaut, while the third-seed and 2004 champion Maria Sharapova got no further than the second round, knocked out by compatriot Alla Kudryavtseva. The only other former champion in the women’s field, Lindsay Davenport, on more of a sentimental return than a serious tilt at the title, was forced to withdraw from her second round match because of a knee injury.

Serbia’s other reigning Grand Slam champion, Novak Djokovic, fared no better in the men’s event. The Australian Open title holder, expected to challenge Federer in the top half of the draw, crashed and burned against Marat Safin, the Russian who had almost made a career out of criticising tennis on grass.

Perhaps history, as well as Nadal, was against Federer as he battled to recover from the loss of the first two sets. Such a feat has not been accomplished since Henri Cochet came from two down against fellow Frenchman Jean Borotra in 1927.

The final was so nearly done and dusted more than an hour earlier, Nadal holding and missing two Championship points in the fourth set tie-break. A resolution at that moment would have allowed Nadal to get away to the Champions’ Dinner in London before heading off next morning to play the Mercedes Cup in Stuttgart, an event on the clay surface which Nadal rightly calls his own after four successive Roland Garros victories.

Now, in his third straight Wimbledon final, and having come so close last year, Nadal can also lay claim to fame on grass. Federer’s 65-match winning streak on the surface – which included his pre-Wimbledon title in Halle – is over. You can’t say Federer was not warned, though.

Rafael Nadal claimed his first Wimbledon title in epic fashion on Centre Court with a five-set victory over Roger Federer.

So now we know. For 65 matches spanning six years we have wondered who could possibly be the man to stop Roger Federer on grass, and at Wimbledon. Did such a player exist, or was Federer’s elegant supremacy such that the mere idea was the stuff of ridiculous imagination?

Nadal joins da special club ”Rod Laver, Andre Agassi and Bjorn Borg” who have won Grand Slam titles on clay and grass.

How appropriate that was after the iron man of tennis had defeated five-times champion Roger Federer 6-4 6-4 6-7 (5/7) 6-7 (8/10) 9-7 in one of the greatest finals in Wimbledon history.

The scoreboard twinkled 9.16pm in the gloaming after a truly gladiatorial battle which lasted four hours and 48 minutes, the longest-ever Wimbledon final, and which was punctuated by two rain breaks and deluged with tension and suspense.

The 22-year-old Majorcan already has four successive French Open victories, but this is his most glittering prize. Three weeks ago at Queen’s he became the first Spaniard to take a grass court title in 36 years. But it is 42 years since a player from his nation conquered the lawns of SW19.

Twelve months ago here, he became the only person to have taken Federer to five sets since his grass court streak began in the ancient days of 2003. This year so many voices publicly proclaimed him champion before a ball was struck. But he was facing a man who was bidding to make history, by becoming the first player in 122 years to win the men’s singles title at Wimbledon six times in succession. Federer was decreed to be at his most vulnerable, yet no one else here had been able unburden Federer of so much as a set in the whole fortnight. The only outcome no one could envisage was an anti-climax.

He grasped the first point of the match with a powerful forehand, and it prompted not only long applause but a great murmuring ripple through the crowd, as if some sensational piece of news was being passed among them. Even the sun peered out from the dark skies above, unable to resist the lure of the action.

Moments later the ripple was a roar of astonishment. The match was three games old, but already the Spaniard had a break, and Federer never got it back. It felt as if the mental burden of that Roland Garros evisceration was casting a shadow.

The shadow grew longer when Nadal came back from 1-4 down to take the second 6-4. Federer, the grass court king, was two sets down. If that seemed unreal, it was positively eerie when at 3-3 in the third, Nadal galloped to 0-40.

They felt very much like match points – but all went by. On such chances great matches might hinge. An 80-minute break for rain saw Federer renewed, as if he had remembered that all he had to fear was fear itself. From being dangerously near defeat, he took the set on the tie-break.

The fourth set tie-break was a thing of heart-stopping beauty – heart-stopping in its tension, beautiful in its quality. Twice Nadal held Championship point, and twice heaven passed him by on the other side. Federer took it to a fifth, and here at last Nadal’s destiny lay waiting.

There is no sound like the roar of the Centre Court crowd as it tumbles on to the turf. The great wave of it crashed over Nadal. Was there ever such a final as this? The king is dead; long live the king.

Sony Ericsson P990 is a smartphone and the successor of Sony Ericsson P910. The phone uses the UIQ 3 software platform, which is based upon Symbian OS 9.

A phone, PDA and imaging machine packed with media and applications to support business and leisure activities. It takes the work out of the job.

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A 3G smartphone that lets you leave your PC behind while travelling, yet access everything you need for effective communication. It’s all here, now.

The P990 has a numeric keypad that flips open to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard below the display, on the phone itself.

Speed is the essence

Enjoy fast wireless networking and most advanced operator services – connect to WLAN for mobile Internet, RSS feeds and push email at high speed.

Versatile to suit your style

Input text via the keypad, keyboard, onscreen keyboard or handwriting recognition, or go handsfree with speakerphone or wireless headset. You choose.

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Millions of football fans missed a crucial part of the Euro 2008 semi-final when a power blackout twice interrupted BBC coverage.

Frustrated viewers voiced their anger on internet message boards after they missed Germany’s second goal in their 3-2 victory over Turkey following an electrical storm.

The television screen went red for more than five minutes and only the commentary could be heared. read more

xVideoServiceThief is a tool for downloading your favourite video clips from a lot of video websites.

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KeePass Password Safe is a free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager for Windows. You can store your passwords in a highly-encrypted database, which is locked with one master password or key file.

Today you need to remember many passwords. You need a password for the Windows network logon, your e-mail account, your homepage’s ftp password, online passwords (like CodeProject member account), etc. etc. etc.The list is endless. Also, you should use different passwords for each account. Because if you use only one password everywhere and someone gets this password you have a problem… A serious problem. The thief would have access to your e-mail account, homepage, etc. Unimaginable.

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