Lime Wire has released Lime Wire 4.2, a superior file sharing application introducing firewall to firewall transfer technology, network connections up to four times faster than before, complete iTunes integration on both Mac and PC, and much more. Lime Wire continues its guarantee of no bundled software and no spyware. Lime Wire 4.2 is available to download from www.limewire.com, with versions for both PRO customers and users of LimeWire BASIC, a free version.

Lime Wire 4.2 runs on the world’s most popular operating systems, including Windows, Mac and Linux, and can be used by the entire Internet community. Version 4.2 builds on the popularity of version 4.0 with the following brand new features:

• Firewall to firewall transfers.

• More comprehensive search results.

• Completely new MP3 player, with less skipping, and OGG audio file support.

• iTunes integration on Windows.

• New file view, making it easier to share files directly with friends.

• New icons, improving the look and feel of Lime Wire.

Laptop as a Fashion Accessory

“Skins” have become common features to customize the look of video displays. Now, international fashion designer Roland Mouret, working with Intel, has created three limited edition luxury “skins” that transform conventional looking laptops into stylish objects of desire. The Roland Mouret Laptop Skins for Intel are designed for the growing number of people who regard their laptops as an essential accessory, both for work and play, and therefore want the technology they use to reflect their own personality.

“I was interested in making laptops more personal for the people I design for, allowing them to build a relationship with their laptop and make it their own,” said Mouret.

The Roland Mouret Laptop Skins for Intel are easily fastened to the lid of most laptops, but especially complement the latest thin and light Intel Centrino mobile technology enabled laptops. The three designs are variations on a pattern used extensively in Roland Mouret’s latest Cruise collection. The Laptop Skins have been created in three variations — Swarovski crystal, red and stone — and different sizes to fit the widest possible range of laptops.

Donate Idle Computer Time

IBM, along with representatives of the world’s leading science, education and philanthropic organizations, have launched the World Community Grid, a global humanitarian effort that applies the unused computing power of individual and business computers to help address the world’s most difficult health and societal problems.

The World Community Grid will harness the vast and unused computational power of the world’s computers and direct it at research designed to help unlock genetic codes that underlie diseases such as AIDS, Alzheimer’s and cancer, improve forecasting of natural disasters and support studies that can protect the world’s food and water supply. Anyone can volunteer to donate the idle and unused time on a computer by downloading World Community Grid’s free software and registering at www.worldcommunitygrid.org.

The first project of the World Community Grid — the Human Proteome Folding Project — is sponsored by the Institute for Systems Biology, an internationally known non-profit research institute dedicated to the study and application of systems biology. The Human Proteome Folding Project hopes to identify the proteins that make up the Human Proteome and, in doing so, better understand the causes and potential cures for diseases like malaria and tuberculosis.

Further projects are to be selected by a newly created World Community Grid Advisory Board that will evaluate proposals from leading research, public and not-for-profit organizations seeking to conduct humanitarian research using grid computing technology. The board is expected to oversee five to six projects a year.

“The World Community Grid will enable researchers around the globe to gather and analyze unprecedented quantities of data to help address important global issues, including public health issues,” said Elaine Gallin, Ph.D., the program director for medical research at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. “I am very pleased to serve as an adviser for this project, which promises to harness grid computer technology to address complex clinical research questions and will inspire us to look beyond the technological limitations that have historically restricted us from addressing some of our most intractable problems.”

By some estimates, there are more than 650 million PCs in use around the world, each a potential participant in World Community Grid. Grid computing is a rapidly emerging technology that can bring together the collective power of thousands or millions of individual computers to create a giant “virtual” system with massive computational strength. Grid technology provides processing power far in excess of the world’s largest supercomputers.