Undelete Plus is a quick and effective way to retrieve accidentally deleted files, files removed from the Recycle Bin, in a DOS window, from a network drive, from Windows Explorer with the SHIFT key held down. And it's Free.

Undelete Plus works under Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 operating systems. The program supports all Windows file systems for hard and floppy drives including FAT12/16/32,NTFS/NTFS5 and image recovery from CompactFlash

The Six Biggest Ideas in Chat

TechCrunch looks at what is going on in the world of online chat.

Search Librarian and Library Book Reviews

Librarian's Book Revoogle lets you search for online book reviews.

How To Guides for Business

Work.com is the entrepreneur's owner's manual to where to go, what to know, and how to get the most value from the ever-growing array of Web resources for the small business owner/operator. It is comprised of more than 1,000 How-to Guides written by business experts. How-to Guides are straightforward, quick-read descriptions of how to get something done, and where on the Web are the best places to help you check those tasks off your to-do list.

Ars Technica Reviews the Nintendo Wii

Ars Technica does an in-depth review of the Wii.

Listen to Mozart 24/7

To celebrate Mozart’s 250th birthday SR launches a new service on the Internet: SR Mozart - a channel dedicated to the music of Mozart. Here you can listen to most of Wolfgang’s important works: symphonies, concertos, sonatas, masses, serenades and divertimenti, trios, quartets and quintets, plus a large selection of arias, duets etc from almost all of his operas. A total of nearly 400 pieces are being rotated, 24 hours a day.

Instant Handbrake - A quick and easy DVD to iPod conversion utility

"Instant HandBrake is a slimmed down, no frills version of the popular open source video conversion utility, HandBrake. Built from the development branch of the HandBrake source code, Instant HandBrake makes taking any DVD you own and placing it on your iPod easier than ever before." -- OS X Daily

Stephen Hawkings Universe

A view of Stephen Hawkings Universe from a historical perspective.

Visit the Stephen Hawkings website.

2006 National Book Award Winners Announced

The National Book Foundation has announced it's list of winners for the 57th National Book Awards.

Fiction: "The Echo Maker" by Richard Powers
Non-Fiction: "The Worst Hard Time" by Timothy Egan
Poetry: "Splay Anthem" by Nathaniel Mackey
Young People's Literature: "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume One: The Pox Party" by M. T. Anderson

RIP VHS

"After a long illness, the groundbreaking home-entertainment format VHS has died of natural causes in the United States. The format was 30 years old."

"No services are planned." -- Variety

Immigration By the Numbers

A video from www.numbersusa.com showing what will happen to America if congress does not lower the immigration levels to what it was in the past.

Internet Only 1% Porn

"A confidential analysis of Internet search queries and a random sample of Web pages taken from Google and Micrsoft's giant Internet indexes showed that only about 1 percent of all Web pages contain sexually explicit material." -- MercuryNews.com

Children's Book Week Nov. 13 - 19

A celebration of the written word, Children's Book Week introduces young people to new authors and ideas in schools, libraries, homes and bookstores. Through Children's Book Week, the Children's Book Council encourages young people and their caregivers to discover the complexity of the world beyond their own experience through books. Children's Book Week will be observed November 13-19, 2006.

How to Make a DVD Burner Into A Powerful Laser

Pretty good article on how to convert a DVD burner into a powerful laser.
"The laser ... has a peak output measured at 225 mW (average output 200 mW). It's a visible red at about 650nm. It can light matches, pop balloons, cut electrical tape, and so forth.

The Best Video Cards For Your Money: 2006

Tom's Hardware has a good review of the best video cards within specific price ranges available at this time.

Searchmash -- Google's Web 2.0 Experimental Search Engine

Searchmash uses Ajax and other Web 2.0 features in it's new experimental search engine.

Ed Bradley of '60 Minutes' Dies at 65

"Ed Bradley, the veteran "60 Minutes" correspondent and one of the pioneering black journalists of his generation, died today of leukemia at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York. He was 65." -- Washingtonpost.com

Which Diets Work and Which Don't?

Diet television gives unbiased opinions from experts and consumers about various diets. The site will even help tailor a diet for you, and it's free.

Reporters Without Borders List Of 13 Internet Enemies of 2006.

A list of the 13 countries with the worse record of Internet censorship in the world in 2006, as compiled by the Reporters sans frontieres - International.

Free Software for Your Jump drive

OpenOffice.org Portable is the complete OpenOffice.org office suite -- including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, drawing package and database -- packaged as a portable app, so you can take all your documents and everything you need to work with them wherever you go. It is Microsoft Office compatible.

Mozilla Firefox - Portable Edition (formerly Portable Firefox) is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser packaged with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you.

See more portable apps for your jumpdrive at: PortableApps.com

Playing At A Theater Near You

Using a search engine like Google or Yahoo! Search it is easy to find out what movies are playing near you. In Google just type the word "movie" and your zip code and it brings up a list of movies and theaters near you. In Yahoo! Search just type in the word "showtimes" and your zip code for a similar list. -- (From http://www.lifehacker.com/)

Give and Get Consumer Advice at My3cents.com

Learn from other consumer experiences, and help others learn from your own personal consumer experiences. My3cents.com is another comsumer-activist site like Epinions.com and PlanetFeedBack where you can read consumer reviews of products and services and submit your own reviews.

Borat Banned From Russian Movie Theaters

"Less than three weeks before a feature film about Borat, a character created by English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, was to open in Russian movie theaters, the Federal Culture and Cinematography Agency refused to license it out of concern that the film could offend audiences in this country." -- The Moscow Times.com

Running Vista on Older Hardware

Ars Technica test drives Windows Vista on older hardware. The test machines: a 2001 Gateway 1200, a 2004 Shuttle chassis and a 2006 IBM Thinkpad X41.

Thinking about upgrading to Vista?

If you are considering upgrading to Vista when it releases in January, 2007 you need to read Paul Thurrott's in-depth review of Vista. Read part 1 and 2 of a projected 8 part review of Windows Vista. Paul Thurrott also has an excellent history of Vista in his Road to Gold series.

Paul Thurrott produces the website Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows.

Test Your Broadband Connection Speed

Speedtest.net is a general use broadband connection analysis tool with many geographically dispersed testing servers. If you are experiencing slowness with your Internet connection, Speedtest.net can help you identify and prove it. Your result history is saved so you can compare against past tests to detect trends. Share links to your result images with your ISP and friends.

Podcasts about college life

"The Mansfield University PodCast looks at college life through the eyes of freshmen who share their thoughts, experiences and advice. Admissions Director Brian Barden shares tips on how to find the college right for you and Financial Aid Director Chris Vaughn makes the complex world of financial aid understandable and sometimes even fun! The Mansfield University PodCast is for high school seniors, juniors and parents." See the story at YumaSun.com.

Music Lyrics Website

International Lyrics Playground has over 30,960 song lyrics and is adding more all the time. They do not have the latest hits. Archieved lyrics are pre-1980 and include foreign language lyrics.

Search the Library of Congress Collections from one search box

The Library of Congress is beta testing it's new search engine that will allow the user to search the largest LC collections from one search box. Search the U.S. Historical and Cultural collections (American Memory), the Library of Congress Online Catalog, the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog and the Library of Congress website from a single search box.

Will an information literacy exam become the next SAT?

"You may remember back to a simpler time when the SAT dealt with math, science, and analogies, not with Google searches and Wikipedia. But as information and communication technology (ICT) have become crucial student skills in the last decade, organizations like the Educational Testing Service (the group behind the SAT) have created material to judge student performance in these new areas." -- Nate Anderson (Ars Technica)

See the demo at the Educational Testing Service (ETS) site.

Free Online File Conversion

Have you ever wanted to convert files without the need to download conversion software? The Zamzar File Conversion website will convert virtually any file format and up to 100 Mb for free. Add this site to your favorites for easy access to file conversion. The site currently supports over 200 file types and is adding support for new file types all the time.

10 Most Impressive Photo's of Our Universe

Beautiful deep space photographs at Oddpeak.com.

The Microsoft Zune player debuts Nov. 14, 2006

The much anticipated Zune player will become available November 14, in time for the holiday gift buying season. The Zune player will offer 30 GB storage, 3 in. color display, FM tuner, wireless capability (share video and audio with other Zune players), and a number of accessories. The Zune site will have audio and video downloads. The Zune weighs in at 5.6 oz. and is 4.4 in. X 2.4 in. X 0.6 in. in size.

Primary and early e-voting problems point to gathering storm

Ars Technica reports on the problems with electronic voting machines and the upcoming November elections. "Two major new reports from independent research groups detail the myriad security breaches, and procedural and technical problems in the 2006 Ohio primaries; stories from early voting in Texas indicate that the paperless DREs in at least two counties may have a partisan bias; another major new report from the University of Connecticut details a whole raft of security vulnerabilities in Diebold's optical scan voting machines; finally, BlackBoxVoting.org has released "push this, pull here" instructions for multiple voting on a Sequoia DRE, no hacking skills necessary. " -- Jon Stokes (Ars Technica)