Isn't Oprah everywhere already?

She's got that TV show.

That's her, staring at you from the magazine rack at the checkout counter.

And now—she's got her own channel at YouTube.

"Okay, I just want to say 'hi' to everybody in the YouTube community. I'm Oprah, of course."

Of course.

That's the way Ms. Winfrey introduces herself to the legion of Oprah fans tuning in to her new Internet outpost, which is already populated with short clips about what happens behind the scenes at her show.

Even though Harpo Studios employs a legion of professional camera operators using state-of-the art equipment, Oprah also chooses to take a hands-on approach with her YouTube content.

She's seen using a $150 Flip Video camcorder for "OprahCam" segments. And if the camera looks familiar, you saw it here first when we checked it out on Computer Corner last June.

There is now a new Flip Video model that boasts a sharper view screen promising a better view of the action in bright light, along with a higher fidelity picture. We haven't tested it, but found the original model to be easy to use and perfect for grabbing online video clips.

Apparently, so does Oprah.

People love to share pictures.

It doesn't take long to go online and track down favorite photos of loved ones, pets... even cars.

So perhaps it's no surprise that folks around the world are now sharing the innards of their refrigerators.

That's the focus of Fridgewatcher.com, which invites users to send in digital snaps of their refrigerated food.

Huh?

Sounds crazy, but actually, it's fascinating to see how similar (and yet how different) those essential kitchen appliances are.

Wherever you look—from Rio to New Zealand—you'll see Coca-Cola on the shelf. But you'll notice that when you get outside the U..S. borders, most refrigerators are a lot smaller than the ones we're accustomed to using.

You'll see the amazing display of perishable goods belonging to a gentleman from Pori, Finland, who must spend hours applying feng shui concepts to the arrangement of his food. It looks like a work of art!

You'll be relieved to know that most of the photos on Fridgewatcher.com probably look a lot more like the inside of the refrigerator in your kitchen. It's interactive, too: You can leave comments on the contents of any featured frdge.

For quite a while now, I've been using online organizational tools from Yahoo and Google to help make sense of my daily duties. I've found them to be especially helpful as I bounce back and forth from my computers at work to my home computer to my notebook.

As long as I have an Internet connection, I can access text, photos, even spreadsheets from any Web browser.

Now Microsoft is finally joining the club with a comprehensive bundle of useful and free online services called Windows Live.

A painless registration process was followed by a lenghy download of the main components, including Mail, Photo Gallery and Writer, a word processor for bloggers. (Actually, the installation procedure stalled on my Windows XP notebook computer; I had to reboot to get it going).

While Windows Live all seems to work, it still feels like an unfinished product—clunky and awkward to use. You might expect its components to be integrated seamlessly with one another, but you'd be wrong. Writer and Photo Gallery are standalone applications that don't seem to have much to recommend them over easier-to-use alternatives like Snapfish (for sharing photos online) or Google Docs and Yahoo Notepad for writing.

Keep trying, Microsoft!

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