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Archive for September, 2008

Editing photos is a Picnik!

As more people take digital photos, they realize that the size of the image is often too large to send by email.   Plus they may want to crop or edit those images before sharing with others.   For Windows users, a simple and free solution is Picasa by Google.  It works really well, allowing you to resize, do basic editing, and email or upload images for sharing.  And while iPhoto is also great for categorizing photos, along with basic editing, it means you have to learn a completely different system on Mac platforms.

That’s where www.Picnik.com comes in very handy.  Being an online resource that allows you to upload, edit, resize, and then save those perfect images back to your computer, means that anywhere you might be — so long as you have an Internet connection — you can tweak those photos.   That means if your images are too large to email and you don’t want to set up a drop.io type account or use Flickr or MobileMe to share them with friends, you could just RESIZE them online with Picnik to email them with others.

If you visit www.Picnik.com you’ll see that you can do a lot of editing with images right over the Internet. Just click their “Get Started Now” button to start editing your images. It will ask you to create a FREE account, which is a good idea, but, if you just want to edit the images without an account, scroll down a little bit on that “Sign In” page to see “Or Try It Out” to bypass registration.

From there, just upload the image you want to work with. Once uploaded, Picnik gives you lots of options — editing, resizing, even adding fancy filters and affects on the image — all for free.

So, if you’re in a hurry and can’t find a good photo editor on the computer you are using, visit www.Picnik.com.

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Twitter Updates for 2008-09-22

  • No Honolulu Advertiser delivered this morning — want to see election results… #
  • Looking for a good mp4 to avi convert for mac… #
  • Manoa library closing in December, what to do… #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-09-12

  • Currently Browsing: http://www.pandora.com/ — man, I love me Pandora! Turn it on and let it roll. Beats last.fm, itunes, others… #
  • Dropbox has an app to checkout. Congrats on going public! #
  • Listening to The Connections Show (http://connections.thepodcastnetwork.com/feed/) while waiting for doc today. Good LinkedIn show! #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-09-11

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iPhone/iPod Touch Platform: Apps a’plenty

I recently purchased an iPod Touch and have REALLY been enjoying it. Besides the beauty of the form factor — fits in your hand so well and lets you control it with simple finger movements on its touch screen — is the application platform. Visiting iTunes App Store, you can see the huge variety of what’s currently available. And this is all still new for developers.

Last Tuesday, HMAUS (Hawaii Mac Users), held a presentation with Rich Warren on the iPhone platform. Besides picking up some great tips on cool apps and why the SDK is worth signing up for, Rich demonstrated the Japanese keyboard entry with word/character suggestions. Very cool! For example, just typing (in Romaji) “iyu” came up with “一週間”. For me, that’s really handy. (Of course, there is the problem of learning to type on a “virtual” keyboard where there are no buttons, but the auto-suggest does help, in any language.)

One of the beauty points about the iPod Touch is that it has all the features (except the camera! :( ) of the iPhone without the phone part — and therefore, no worries about having to sign up for an expensive monthly contract with a company that doesn’t always have it’s customers’ best interests in mind. In other words, you can get the same “coolness” of the iPhone (using wifi) but using your existing phone and plan.

Even if you don’t buy one, at least visit an Apple store to see for yourself how they feel to operate.

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Twitter Updates for 2008-09-04

  • Man, I love me some drop.io! #

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