Nero Ultra Edition brings the digital world to your PC Now it 39 s easy to organize and manage all your multimedia files as well as create and edit new digital content Nero 39 s sleek design and user friendly tools make completing projects fun and enjoyable

Have you ever wondered where all those digital goods that weren’t of high enough quality to make the final cut go? I think we’ve found it. Arend deGruyter-Helfer developed the following image of a pile of Facebook gifts. Obviously there isn’t a real place you can go to find the Facebook Gifts wasteland, but if there was, I’d imagine that this is how that world would look. It’s a piece of digital art that I think would do extremely well as a poster.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Actor Brad Pitt was honored on Thursday for his humanitarian work in helping rebuild hurricane-ravaged New Orleans at former U.S. President Bill Clinton’s philanthropic summit, the Clinton Global Initiative.Pitt was presented with a plaque from the U.S. Green Building Council which said the actor and his foundation “Make It Right” had created the “largest and greenest single-family community in the world.”"‘Make It Right’ has exceeded my expectations,” said Pitt who set up the foundation in 2007.”Our criteria from the beginning were at odds, to say the least. We demanded that these homes be sustainable, that they…

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TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran voiced defiance on Saturday in the face of Western condemnation over a new nuclear fuel plant, with a senior official saying the facility would soon be operational and make the “enemies blind.”U.S. President Barack Obama demanded on Friday that Iran come clean about its nuclear program or risk “sanctions that bite” after the disclosure of the new uranium enrichment plant under construction southwest of Tehran.On Saturday, Obama said the discovery of the facility showed a “disturbing pattern” of evasion by Tehran which added urgency to its planned talks with world powers in Geneva on Thursday.The West…

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Once you have your company’s web site up and running, it isvital that you do everything possible to keep it that way.Nothing sets off alarms in a customer’s head faster than a nonaccessible web site or one that has features which do not work.A web site is literally your company’s window to the world andevery aspect of the site; including the design, content,accessibility, ease of navigation, and uptime, says a lot aboutyour company. A fully functioning, attractively designed, feature-loaded website spells professionalism and expertise, while a poorlydesigned and inaccessible site reflects very poorly on yourbusiness. Still, the best designed site…

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Google has unveiled their latest web app. It’s called Google Sidewiki and makes it easy to “Contribute helpful information to any webpage”. We’re not quite so sure. If you have the Google Toolbar installed on your browser, Sidewiki allows you to open a side-panel, add your comments about the page, and read the comments of others.
In a Utopian Internet (Utopernet?) the world’s most predominant experts on all subjects would be browsing websites dropping off clairvoyant nuggets of wisdom like Greek oracles. In reality, letting anyone add to any web page does not equate to instant insight. We’re all…

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Google has finally whittled down the more than 150,000 ideas submitted as part of its Project 10^100 to 16 themes that will compete for $10 million in funding.It’s taken far longer than Google had originally anticipated, but the results of the company’s 10th anniversary project to solicit ideas that could change the world are ready for inspection. Google is asking the public to vote on the most worthy of the 16 “idea themes” that it has identified from the submissions it has received over the past year.Google had originally planned to choose individual ideas, but was “overwhelmed” by the number…

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[Norman] spent three years developing and building his own Edison cylinder phonograph with electric pickup. We’re glad he did, and that he shared it with the world because the product is a thing of beauty. Every part is clean and precise with plenty of room for adjustments to accommodate differences in media. He’s reused the head from a VCR and attached it to a CNC machined polypropylene mandrel. The needle is interfaced with the cylinder via a delicate passively driven carriage. This consists of an aluminum rod with the cartridge at one end, and two wheels at the other.…

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