Google Earth lets us zoom in on any spot on the planet, from the Brazilian rainforest to Arctic ice sheets. Now imagine it offered the sounds to match the sights.

Bernie Krause has spent 40 years collecting over 3500 hours of sound recordings from all over the world, including bird and whale song and the crackle of melting glaciers. His company, Wild Sanctuary in Glen Ellen, California, has now created software to embed these sound files into the relevant locations in Google Earth. Just zoom in on your chosen spot and listen to local sounds.

“Our objective is to bring the world alive,” says Krause. “We have all the continents of the world, high mountains and low deserts.”

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Have a home party and are totally clueless as to how to create an ambience to match the occasion? Want to surprise your boss with a surprise birthday bash on occasion of his birthday? Well, you do not need to order some pretty expensive lighting equipment. Nor do you need to bore holes into your walls to suspend the afforded lighting equipment.

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I’m telling you.. the Net is surprising me with good services every day. This one is practically a joy for all kind music fans.

Finetune is all about good music. It’s a web based service that lets you create playlists that you like, listen to them online and share it with your friends. You can choose from 2 million sound tracks that already in Finetune library. I’m pretty sure that there is no change you won’t find something that you like in a big music collection like that. When you create a playlist, you will listen to full songs - FREE! (But, you can add to playlist only 3 songs per one artist)

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To clarify, this is an easy fix if you have saved your png files from Photoshop and, of course, still have access to the software. I stumbled across this fix in PS and haven’t tested in any other applications. Feel free to point out other ones that work in a similar fashion. Note: I was using CS2.

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Property managers bin BlackBerrys
Property management company Nelson Bakewell has ditched BlackBerrys in favour of Windows Mobile-based devices. The move is part of a major overhaul of its corporate mobility strategy. It means smart phones replace a scattergun mobile portfolio

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