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Saturday, 01 December 2007 16:20 |
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 Splashup is a pretty obvious adaptation of the popular open source program, GIMP, as a WebWare application. I’m am very impressed by how well it has been done too. Let me add here that GIMP offers much more capability than Splashup does, Scriptfu addons and filters that make it an open source competitor of the commercial Photoshop program. (Though not fully, if you have the cash, Photoshop and Fireworks are still worth the cash.) Still, this webware has some features that make it a great addition to your image editing abilities from any computer web browser with flash. To begin with it will load files from your local hard disk or a number of online repositories, Flickr, Picasa and Facebook. In addition if you are needing to edit over several sessions of use you can save it to a splashup format which keeps all the layers, etc. that you have used during editing. In short, give it a go. I think you’ll be pleased. |
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Saturday, 04 August 2007 11:37 |
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PicniK.com I just Stumbled Upon this new (to me at least) online graphic editor and it is pretty neat. I've been expecting services like this now as the web 2.0 design of weblife comes into being. this service is still Beta but that means it's advanced features are available free for now. This site will do all the basic image editing like any editor on your computer but it does more and it does it within a browser window. to make it easier you can also open it's editor to "Full Screen" so it looks like any program you have on your computer, but its a web page. It integrates with your hard drive, Flickr, Picasa, and Facebook images at this time and looks like to intends to work with many more services as time goes on. Try it out, it's a five of five rating from me. |
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Monday, 11 June 2007 16:19 |
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More and more of us are using broadband Internet connections and it makes sense to see if you are getting what you are paying for. There are lots of sites that have simple download speed tests but I'm suggesting this one at speedtest.net and keep a history of your service.
Update: The value of Internet speed to our nation's future is not being recognized. The USA is (now) number 16 in the world for population having broadband Internet. The importance of this has been completely ignored by our leadership and will have long lasting effects in our position in the world. Our children will not honestly get to be the world leaders we think our generation and generations before us were. Visit this website: Speed Matters or click on the ad on the left of this Blog and see how you stand in the world of Internet Speed. |
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Monday, 09 April 2007 11:24 |
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 I've written about Mozy.com and it's backup software for XP and above, but here is another service that is offering even more though in a different type of package. This service will let you keep up to 25 GIGs of files online with them for free and has more space for minimal fees.
This service is designed to store your photos, music, backup files or any other files and will keep them safe or share them as you wish. I haven't found yet if it will work with Win2000 or earlier but there is a web interface you can use and it should work with anything. A Keeper! |
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