Miss Venezuela is Miss Universe 2008 (AP)

Dayana Mendoza, Miss Venezuela, reacts after being crowned as Miss Universe 2008 during the Miss Universe 2008 beauty pageant in Nha Trang, Vietnam, Monday, July 14, 2008. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)AP - Miss Venezuela was crowned Miss Universe 2008 on Monday in a contest marked by the spectacle of Miss USA falling down during the evening gown competition for the second year in a row.


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Zotero

Zotero is an easy-to-use yet powerful research tool
that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources
(citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other
objects), and lets you share the results of your research
in a variety of ways. Zotero integrates tightly with
online resources; it can sense when users are viewing
a book, article, or other object on the web, and—on
many major research and library sites—find and automatically
save the full reference information for the item in
the correct fields. (in Education)

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DVDSmith Movie Backup

DVDSmith Movie Backup is DVD Decrypter and DVD copying software to copy entire DVD movie to hard disk, and removes all the protections (CSS, RC, RCE, APS, UOPs and Sony ARccOS) while copying. With DVDSmith Movie Backup you can make clones of your favorite DVD movies hard drive with just a few clicks, either complete […]

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VLC Media Player 0.8.6i

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg…) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream i…

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Ashley Tisdale and Miley Cyrus: Shopping Buddies!

Making for quite the Disney twosome, Miley Cyrus and fellow actress/friend Ashley Tisdale were spotted spending some hard earned cash during a shopping spree in Beverly Hills on Sunday (July 13).

Accompanied by Ashley’s mom, Lisa, the young stars smiled and giggled as they took to the shops - posing with a few fortunate fans along the way.

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I Was A Cub Scout

From the artist: “They’re a little bit poppy, a little bit emo, and a little bit rock. If you like bands like The Postal Service, Editors and Jimmy Eat World, you just might like this band….and the album was produced by Hugh Padgham (The Police! David Bowie!)”

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“Beat Drop” by Junior Sanchez

From the artist: “Cube 2008″

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Knox and Vivienne make 8 for Jolie-Pitt family (AP)

American actress Angelina Jolie poses at the photo call for the film 'Changeling' at the 61st International film festival in Cannes, southern France, on  May 20, 2008. Angelina Jolie's doctor says the actress has given birth to a girl and a boy. Dr. Michel Sussmann told The Associated Press  Sunday July 13, 2008 that Jolie, the babies and Jolie's partner, Brad Pitt, 'are doing marvelously well.'  Sussmann confirmed a report in the local Nice Matin newspaper that Jolie gave birth to a boy, Knox Leon, and a girl, Vivienne Marcheline, by Cesarian section on Saturday night. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, FILE)AP - Brad Pitt was emotional but calm, Angelina Jolie laughed and chatted. The world’s most famous celebrity couple were joined in emotion during the birth of their twins — a boy and a girl — and all “are doing marvelously well,” the doctor who delivered the babies in a seaside hospital on the French Riviera said Sunday.


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Lauren Conrad’s NYC Seaplane Adventure

Getting away from all of the drama back home in Los Angeles, Lauren Conrad packed up her bags and headed off to the east coast for a getaway with a few gal pals.

The reality show starlet looked comfy casual in a pair of jeans and a grey sweatshirt as she was seen boarding a seaplane on the East river in Manhattan, New York on Saturday (July 12).

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‘Hellboy II’ catches fire with $35.9 million debut (AP)

In this image released by Universal Pictures, Selma Blair, left, and Ron Perlman are shown in a scene from, 'Hellboy II: The Golden Army.'  (AP Photo/Universal Pictures, Egon Endrenyi)AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) — Superheroes battling inner demons often rule the box office. This time, the superhero was a demon as “Hellboy II: The Golden Army” pulled in $35.9 million to debut as the No. 1 weekend film.


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