| 'Barcade' lures old-school gamers
In Brooklyn's warehouse-turned-artist district of Williamsburg, young hipsters flock to Barcade to sample its roster of microbrews and mingle with the likes of Pac-Man, the Mario brothers and Frogger. The bar runs on wind power and has its own MySpace profile. Its walls are lined with dozens of bulky, old-school arcade games that decades ago lured coin-clutching teens to crowded, dark rooms with deceptively addicting gameplay. Barcade's popularity among Williamsburg's twenty- and thirty-somethings reflects a wider trend in the videogame industry -- retro games are back as parents introduce their offspring to the beloved games of their youth. Few segments of the $30bn global videogame market need it more than the US arcade business, which has shrunk to about a quarter of its peak size.
Elephant attack survivor 'stable'
A British tourist is recovering in hospital today after an attack by an elephant that killed his wife and daughter on a safari holiday in Zimbabwe. The man sustained serious injuries when they were charged by a bull elephant in the Hwange National Park, near Bulawayo. He is now believed to be in a stable condition. Scroll down for more... .
A safari I'll never forget
From the breathtaking Lake Manyara to the wildlife of the Ngorongoro crater, Tom Breeze was mesmerised by his African journey.
In pictures: from tree-lions to flamingoes After a day or more of travelling – ripped from bed at some unearthly hour, carting baggage round railway stations, lost-the-ticket-at-the-airport fiascos, nine hours' flying, eight of spine-jolting African roads from Nairobi to Tanzania, and a frankly very odd border crossing, it took a lot to jerk me out of the semi-comatose state I had perfected in transit. However, the first view over Lake Manyara was eye-opening, to say the least. .
Speeding up Safari: Reducing spinning pinwheels, other performance ...
Safari is generally one of the fastest browsers for Mac OS X with regard to page rendering. Unfortunately, its also prone to significant slowdown -- including repeated stalls accompanied by the spinning pinwheel progress indicator, slow launch times, and more. There are a few procedures you can use to minimize the occurrence of stalls and eliminate other hindrances, improving the overall speed of Apple's Web browser. Slow launching Clean startup routines There are a number of routines Safari has to perform each time it is launched, and making sure there aren't excessive steps in these routines -- by reducing the number of files in certain locations or periodically deleting some folders altogether -- can make for fewer bounces in the Dock. The /Library/Safari (the tilde [] represents the current home user directory) folder is one of the locations you should check, because Safari checks it as well when launching.
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