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Remote chance to catch a thief

PARIS, Nov 15 (Reuters Life!) - What's a television without its remote control? Not much, decided a thief in southwestern France who returned to the home from which he had just stolen a TV to pick up the remote control -- and was arrested.

The man robbed a retiree's house in the village of Mussidan, taking the TV set and some hunting rifles, police said. While the owner was reporting the theft at the local police station, the thief returned.

Alert neighbors tipped off the police and they caught the man red-handed.

"He came back to take the remote control," a local police spokesman said. "I guess there's daring and there's stupid."

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Google releases Desktop 4.5

Google has refreshed the design of the recent 4.5 release of Google Desktop. The design is a lot cleaner with the integration of a little transparency. With this new release, your personalized content seems to flow and fit in much better on your desktop. I wasn't a big fan of Google Desktop before. I have had it installed on my PC since it was released from Google, but it just seemed to slow down everything, and for the past year or so I really haven't used it. So when this new version came out yesterday, I thought I would give it another try. Thus far, I have been extremely happy with the new Google Desktop. It has a much more Mac desktop widget feel. You can drag and place the widgets all around your screen, and they don't intrude, they just blend in. Sorry Mac and Linux users, for now Google Desktop is only available for Windows.

An added note: Google has built this version of Desktop to be compatible with Microsoft Office 2007, and Mozilla Firefox 2.0.