Thanks to Zack who commented to my SkyDrive post for this one!
Gladinet is the future! It is Web 3.0! Gladinet is a great little application that brings all of your online storage to your desktop as virtual drives. Use online storages (Not only SkyDrive but ADrive, Google Docs, Amazon S3 , and others.) as if they were local folders on your computer. Access local folders on your home computer remotely as if they were right there (only with standard version which is only available by invitation right now). But you can download free version now.
There is so much more in this appliction I’ll let this video tell you about it.
I really like my a new camera. My old one was the pits! I even went back to film because of that old piece of junk.
I purchaased a Canon EOS 50D digital SLR camera. It is really a significant upgrade. 15.1-megapixel CMOS sensor so you can make tremendous print with little degradation. A 3″ LCD” view-screen so you can clearly see the images and settings. I got the package with 18mm to 200mm zoom lens. So it zooms from wide-angle to telephoto. With an aperture of f3.5 to f5.6 it’s not the fastest lens but it really is very versatile. What I am really crazy about is the low light performance. I have been shooting in very poorly lit rooms and I’m getting really great photos (photos posted later).
The 50Ds controls are quit complex and I’m still trying to figuer it out, so more later.
Watch TV shows, movies, clips and internet shows all at Hulu.com. The video is pretty high quility for Flash video. Hulu is ad supported but the ads are brief and infrequent.
Called “Skydrive” a part of Microsoft’s “Windows Live” it allows you to store and share up to 25GB of data (documents, photos and other media files). “Windows Live Photo Gallery” syncs automatically to Skydrive which is terrific. What I am a very disappointed by; there is no method to transfer other files by a desktop application like it does with “Photo Gallery”. In my opinion this decreases the usefulness of “Skydrive” a lot. Right now you have to go to the website. Click “Upload Files”, click on “Browse”, click “Open” and then click “Upload”. This is so old-school! Not Web 2.0 at all. What it is really good for is sharing very big files with others. Files up to 50MB can be uploaded and shared.
Over all I think it’s a good start. The photo sharing function and it synchronization with “Photo Gallery” works great! I think Microsoft may someday do something with desktop synchronization. At lease I hope so!
Windows Live Photo Gallery is a program included in the new Windows Live Essentials a suite of great products offered free from Microsoft for download. WL Photo Gallery imports all of your photos then you can make adjustments to them. (crop, adjust brightness, color etc.) You can stitch photos together to create great panoramas, tag them and upload them to the internet to share with other online.
One of the great new features of Windows 7 is the “Display Color Calibration Tool.” The “Display Color Calibration Tool” assist you in optimizing your monitor and computer’s display adapter for best viewing. This tool is not as good as using a colorimeter but it seems to be as good as other software solutions like “Adobe Gamma” and unlike a colorimeter it doesn’t cost anything.
Apart of the the “Windows Live Essentials” set of tools “Windows Live Mail” stands out as a must have program for all of you that insist on using a desktop email client. “Live Mail” is beleaved to be the program Microsoft wanted to ship with “Vista” but it wasn’t finished or something and it didn’t get in. Instead we got “Windws Mail” (basically “Outlook Express 8″). You can download it now for XP, Vista and the Windows 7 Beta.
