The Mini-e Home Entertainment Center from eMachines is a small form factor desktop designed with interior decorating in mind. The size, weight and thickness of a small book, this PC’s glossy black diamond shaped chassis “floats” in a matte silver pedestal, while emitting a soft ambient green glow along the lower edge. The compact Mini-e ER1402 provides full HD multimedia entertainment and everyday computing capabilities. While it looks great in a main living area, it can also snap to the back of most monitors or TVs, streamlining limited work areas. The Mini-e has built-in 802.11 b/g/n wireless. The HDMI interface allows it to instantly connect to a big screen TV and an S/PDIF port digitally connects it to a home audio system. The Mini-e is powered by Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, an AMD Athlon II NEO Processor, NVIDIA GeForce 9200 graphics and 2GB of memory. Its intelligent design has ports and slots arranged around the sides to allow easy access and cable management. The ER1402 includes four USB 2.0 ports, a multi-in-one digital media card reader, a 160GB hard drive and a wireless keyboard and mouse. Mounting kit or display not included in the retail price of $300.
Like & Tweet is a free user-friendly social media platform that allows users to organize, view and search all the Web content and social media channels they choose — including Facebook, Twitter and Flickr — from a single location. Following a 30-second registration at , new users can begin arranging and customizing their favorite social media content from top news sites, blogs, Facebook “Like” pages, Twitter feeds and many other sources. Like & Tweet uses a series of tabs — such as News, Business, Politics, Sports, etc. — which new users can customize. Each tab initially comes “pre-loaded” with suggested content which can be modified.
The site also offers users the ability to add and individualize content through the use of widgets. There are several different widget types, including: Facebook “Like” and “Recent Activity”; Twitter “Profile” and “Search” feeds of all Twitter activity around a keyword or phrase; and Flickr widgets which feature photos based on keyword searches or specific albums. On top of these, the Like & Tweet Blog Widget allows users to follow the latest posts across all their favorite blogs, from an edited directory of high ranking blogs.
The goal of the Global Art Initiative is to help lift disabled third world artists out of poverty by providing them with art supplies, crutches, wheelchairs, safe spaces to create art and art lessons. The Initiative also aims to teach empathy towards the disabled. Visitors can click the “Artist” tab, on the left hand menu to see five artists and a brief biography of each one. An online gallery displays many of their works. Through individuals can sponsor disabled artists or even nominate a talented disabled artist for sponsorship.
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