Los Angeles - With patience and passion, California residents turned out to vote in record numbers, adding to the more than 100 million US voters expected to exercise their franchise Tuesday.

That meant long lines that snaked around parking lots, through shopping malls and across entire city blocks.

For many voters, especially those supporting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, the day was suffused with a sense of destiny.

Mountain View, California (dpa) - It only takes one experience working on someone else's computer to notice it: it's disconcerting to work without your browser bookmarks and other personal settings. There are several solutions to this problem, using either removable storage media or web-based services.

U3 technology offers one approach to a personalised mobile work environment. It uses a joint software and hardware standard developed by USB stick makers to allow for programs and configurations to be executed directly from a removable storage device.

London, Oct 31: Two bones and a driver's license with Steve Fossett''s name have been found near the crash site of missing adventurer Steve Fossett's plane in California's rugged Sierra Nevada mountains.

The team also found the aviator's tennis shoes as well as credit cards, authorities have confirmed.

The finding was made on October 29 about half a mile east of the crash site, near the town of Mammoth Lakes.

The remains have been sent for tests to a Department of Justice laboratory.

The shoes and driver's licence had animal bite marks on them, said Madera Country Sheriff John Anderson.

"This reinforces our theory that animals dragged him away," Times Online quoted him, as saying.

Cupertino, California - Quicker graphics, cutting edge processors, and a completely novel aluminium casing: those are the highlights of the completely reworked laptop line from Apple, as presented by CEO Steve Jobs at a recent press conference in Cupertino.

Apple also used the occasion to announce new lower prices for its portable computers, including a MacBook starting at 950 dollars. Many fans were nevertheless disappointed that Apple chose not to enter into the inexpensive netbook market, a class that includes machines for less than 300 dollars.