Pixlr is a web-based image editor that is quite good. It does most of the things you usually need an image editor to do, rotate, crop, flip, color-balance, levels, curves, hue and saturation. It has effects like sepia, solarize and desperate. Pixlr has filters like blur, noise, halftones and more. It has all the tools that we expect in Read More→
Archive for Web 2.0
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,500 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 25 trips to carry that many people.
Amazon has releast a new HTML5 Kindle app for Chrome and Safari. Now you don’t have to buy a Kindle reader or get eye-strain reading on your phone. You can read books right inside your web browser on your computer. Amazon maked this web application to get around Apple’s wanting a huge percentage of their Kindle book sales when purchased from an iPad app. Read More→
The war to be the best streaming music site is on. In April the announcement of Amazon’s Cloud Player and last month Google’s cloud based music service Beta called Google Music. I sign up for Cloud Player. I also requested an invitation to the Google service last month and just got the invitation today and logged in. After messing with it for a few minutes I found Google Music to be easier then Amazon because you can automatically add a lot of free songs so you can begin streaming right away. Read More→
I just moved this blog to Wordpess.com form my Godaddy hosting on WordPress software. WordPress.com is like the Energizer bunny. It keeps going and going with little effort by the user. WordPress.com takes care of the software and the network. You take care of the content. No administrating of the software or the database. Read More→
I just found out that Delicious my favorite social bookmarks site has been purchase from Yahoo by the founders of YouTube Chad Hurley and Stave Chen. Yahoo annouced the acquasition by Hurley and Chen’s new company AVOS. Read More→
“We’re selling Delicious not, not closing it!”, is what’s being reported today. Yahoo said it is not being shutdown at all. They’re just hoping someone will take it off their hands. Read More→
The seven year old social bookmark sharing site “Delicious” has been slated for termination sometime in the new year. The site founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and was purchased by Yahoo in 2005 and has languished since. Read More→
The great bookmarks synchronization plug-in Xmarks because of lack of funding was planning to close down has now been acquired by LastPass, the password manager that makes web browsing easier and more secure. This is terrific! LastPass is a great company and Xmarks is a great service. I’m currently use a”delicious ” plug-in to manage my bookmarks but now I may move to Xmarks!
GoToMyAssist, LogMeIn and LogMeInRescue are all remote access programs that you may use to help someone with their computer. I am using both GoToMyAssist and LogMeIn right now to do some minor maintenance on two client’s computers. They both work very well. I will now explain the differences. Read More→
