Wolfsburg crash out as Owen fires

Michael Owen scored a famous hat-trick as Manchester United made light of their injury woes to record a memorable win over German champions Wolfsburg.

The former Liverpool frontman has not made quite the impression many people expected when he arrived from Newcastle in the summer. But the 29-year-old has now taken his tally to seven and Ferguson said: "It was a fantastic performance. Michael's finishing and positional play were superb.

Popeye's creator gets a Google logo

Elzie Crisler Segar might not be a household name, but the Popeye creator has become the latest person to be honoured with his ownGoogle Doodle.

The internet search giant has depicted the rambunctious cartoon seaman in typically feisty pose on what would have been Segar's 115th birthday.

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West Ham 0 MU 4 - a Day when MU lost all defenders

Darren Fletcher started at right back, with Gary Neville and Wes Brown lining central defence. Darron Gibson would pull the strings in midfield, with Paul Scholes, the ageing warrior, playing the holding role. Wayne Rooney was down to scavenge alone up front, with Michael Owen and Dimitar Berbatov, his possible partners, sitting on the bench.

Goodness knows what the Old Trafford sage made of it at the end, with United reduced to ten men by injuries to Neville and Brown and the complement of substitutes having been used. Michael Carrick filled in at centre back, with Patrice Evra alongside, Ryan Giggs retreated to left back and Owen and Berbatov came on to forage in attack. Crazy, mixed-up formations, from start to finish. Square pegs in round holes, a mish-mash of needs-must choices from Ferguson, forced by his lack of fit defenders. Yet did anyone notice? United toyed with West Ham, edged ahead on the stroke of half-time and then pulverised them into submission.

Ferguson does not panic when Plan A disintegrates. Even when Plans B and C have been ripped to shreds, too, the trust in his squad — especially the fringe members, the frustrated B-listers — is absolute. What was he effin’ doing? Taking them out of their comfort zones, asking them to perform alien tasks, demanding versatility in potential adversity. Yet safe in the knowledge that they would not let him down. And they did not.

Scholes, the master, fired United in front with a bullet of a shot; Gibson, the willing apprentice, thundered in another, his third goal of the week. Antonio Valencia and Rooney completed the demolition.

No More Prostars/Corinthians...

In a statement released on the website of Prostars, they are stopping production of Prostars. I have been a collector for some years, I guess this is the end of it.

STATEMENT REGARDING THE FUTURE OF PROSTARS We are aware that there have been recent discussions on the Collectors Forum regarding the future of ProStars, so in order to clarify the current situation we are making the following announcement. We can confirm that after much deliberation there will NOT be any further releases of ProStars figures for the foreseeable future although we will continue to produce MicroStars. Please be assured that this decision has not been taken lightly, and has been triggered by market conditions, increased manufacturing costs, license negotiations and the fees required to secure these high profile licenses. Collectors should be aware that we continue to hold licenses to produce ProStars figures of Manchester United and Arsenal. However, we have decided to let the Serie A, Barcelona, Celtic, Rangers and Chelsea licenses lapse, and the Liverpool license expires in the middle of August. Please note that we will explore the feasibility of producing Team Packs should Manchester United or Arsenal, win a major competition. We therefore will continue to watch league tables and tournament progress with interest! Finally, we would like to take this opportunity to thank all our Trade customers and collectors, who have loyally supported the brand since its inception in 1995, and we look forward to keeping in touch with you all. The ProStars Team

Giggs hits 100th mark as Rooney got his hat-trick!

Ryan Giggs stole many of the headlines again at the weekend when he scored his 100th Premier League goal during Manchester United's win at Portsmouth.

And after a year in which Giggs won an amazing 11th league title with United, the Welshman has been included in the shortlist of 10 leading sports stars for this year's BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards.

Brilliant Fletcher - MU 3 Everton 0

DARREN FLETCHER hit a volley of the highest quality as Man Utd registered an emphatic success over Everton.

The Scotland skipper's goal was only matched by the class of the overall performance of Alex Ferguson's side, as second-half strikes from Michael Carrick and Antonio Valencia gave the scoreline a fair reflection.

It lifts United above Arsenal in the table and five points behind Chelsea - who went one better than their Old Trafford rivals by hitting four past Wolves earlier in the day.

How to install and try our Google Chrome OS

First, you need to get an image of Chrome OS. You can do that using this torrent. You can also try out the build that GDGT has uploaded, which worked fine in our test as well.

Once that’s done, download a version of VirtualBox for whatever OS you’re running on hereand install it. After registering (or declining to) you’ll be met with a screen like this. Click the button that says “New” in the upper left hand corner. We’re going to be making a new virtual machine.:

You’ll enter a wizard like this. Hit next.

Go ahead and title the OS whatever you’d like. For the operating system, choose Linux, with Ubuntu as the version (other setups could potentially work, but this is the only one we’ve gotten working).

Choose how much memory to allocate to this virtual machine. This will be dependent on how much memory you have in your computer. The more, the better, but if you choose too much your real computer will become unstable/very slow.

Here’s the tricky part (fortunately it isn’t very tricky). You don’t want to create a new hard disk, instead, you want to use an existing hard disk. Don’t choose one from the drop down menu either — you’re going to want to hit the folder icon just to the right of that to enter the ‘virtual media manager’.

Hit the ‘Add’ button.

Now you have to find the Chrome OS image you downloaded earlier. This is probably on your desktop or in your downloads folder. Once you’ve found it, hit ‘Open’.

Hit ‘Select’ once you reach this window.

Almost there. Make sure ‘use existing hard disk’ is checked. Hit next.

Hit ‘Finish’

You’re done! Hit Start. Hopefully the screen will go black, but only for a little while (this could be anywhere from 10 seconds to a minute or so, depending on how fast your computer is).

Once you’re in, you’ll see a splash screen for ‘Chromium’ (which is what Google calls dev builds of Chrome). To login, you’ll need to enter a valid Google Account ID. Your standard Gmail account should work, but as we said before, this build of ChromeOS came from bittorrent, so you may want to use a throw away account like we did in the screenshots below (you can make one here).

You’re in. Now time to explore. To be honest, everything looks quite similar to Google’s Chrome browser, but there are a few key differences. Note the battery life indicator and options menu in the far upper right. Also try playing around with the ‘New Window’ functions — you’ll find that it’s difficult (if not impossible) to navigate between multiple windows. And be wary of the Bookmarks manager. As far as I can tell, there’s no easy way to get out of it — you’ll have to manually create a new bookmark, which will kick you back into the browser mode once you click it. Oh, and good luck finding the ’shut down’ button, because we sure can’t.

You probably won’t need it, but the shared user password for this install (which you’d need for functions like sudo) is ‘chromeos’ according to the torrent’s listing on ThePirateBay.