Wingsuit flying

Parachuting has come a long way in my lifetime.

Have a look at this video on jumping from a helicopter I believe from the Alps:

Insane wingsuit skydiving - Watch more free videos

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Splashup (beta) Image Editor

Splashup

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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Seagull

Zoho Writer

An Online Office Word Processor Beautiful. Most of us have experienced using MS Word for writing documents and if you have been attentive lately you may have heard there are online office products now available.

Thinkfree.com has had the best system I'd seen up to now.

Writely.com has been around for some time and was bought by Google.

Zoho was too basic last time looked at it, but now it has a lot of new features which are going to make a viable option to compete even with MS Office. But most intriguing to me is it's components beyond word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. Zoho has online chat, meeting, planner and more. This makes Zoho more like a real 'Office' with collaboration and sharing.

I recommend at least taking a look and making a free membership with it. Zoho.com.

SF sign man

SF sign man, originally uploaded by Xapa.

SF, eh?

Could be Eugene here as well.

If you can't see it, the sign says, "Will take verbal abuse for a dollar."

PicniK.com

PicniK.com

Another example of the web getting *way* ahead of me.

While surfing photo sites and editing tools I came across this site and it's GREAT!

True Web 2.0 this is a website that will let you edit photos on your hard drive, from your Flickr, Picasa, or Facebook site or anything you see on the web. The site is Adobe flash (a free plugin if you don't have it installed already) and can expand to fullscreen so you don't have to work on a photo in just your browser sized window. It has the usual crop, color, etc. tools and also has special effects you can add.

If you have some photo editing to do and you are on a high speed Internet connection I really recommend trying this one.

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Google copies StumbleUpon

Your Search History Does the Magic

I just learned about this and have only started to use it. If you know about StumbleUpon.com
then you may find Google's foray into showing interesting websites something to try.

I think web surfing broadens the mind particularly the way StumbleUpon helps you. You wind up on sites you might never find any other way, interesting sites, sites suggested by other folks like you or unlike you as you choose.

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Busy Flickr Blogging Bees

2007-01-30.jpg, originally uploaded by motorbelly.

I love it! I can't keep up!

Things I imagine should exist before I think them up. I guess this is what growing old is about. (VBG)

Two new things I discovered today, first is a small add-in for Picasa2, the photo handling software free from Google that I have liked but not used a lot can now move your photos not only to Picasa's online storage but you can send them to Flickr too.

Flickr (now part of Yahoo) is the more web friendly photo site in my opinion. And *NOW* while viewing my photos I used Picasa to upload I can directly connect to my blogs and post the images to those blogs, I'm doing it this second.

All of this means web publishing is as easy as writing e-mails but a lot prettier.

Let me recommend you try:
http://picasa.com
http://www.flickr.com
http://picasa2flickr.sourceforge.net/
http://www.blogger.com and/or
http://www.wordpress.com

All the services are free with advanced features available for fees.

Gadget Lab - Wired News

Gadget Lab - Wired News

There doesn't seem to be much innovation on aviation in this country anymore, is it all the lawsuits? But here are two grand dads in their 70's building an old dream, a flying car.

How cool is this?

Tagmaps

TagMaps - World Explorer

Here is something new and fun from Yahoo.

Tagmaps combines the Yahoo map with Flikr photos so that as you look at the map you find tags for the ares on the map and by holding your mouse over those tags images from the area appear in a window to the right. Then you can look more closely at those pictures by clicking them and look at the photo collections of the photographers.

It's pretty neat!

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Tagmap View

Can't we all just get along?

ACLU Objects to Praying Marines Hoax

I'm normal.

I work with people who are politically opposite from me and I respect them, deeply.

I receive e-mails from them that are, I believe, their genuine feelings sent to persuade me that my end of the political spectrum is wrong and theirs is right.

The link above is a link I found after receiving the e-mail the link's webpage describes from a co-worker. The page "de-bunks" the content of the e-mail, I found the link with a simple search on Google of the words: marines bowing aclu, this link was the top listing in the search.

What disturbs me is not the idea that the ACLU would oppose prayer on federal property, the fact is it has no such opposition.

What disturbs me is that my friend would rather believe that my "liberal" leanings would want to stop prayers by folks in their own space and time, ever, and that my friend would not look more closely himself at the information he spreads to others. I believe it is important, now more than ever that we all look closely at the information from which we make our life's decisions. We live in a crowded planet and misinformation is expensive.

I do not oppose prayer, like my friend I consider myself Christian, I try to be like Christ in my life. I believe that God made me, but like *ALL* humans I am imperfect and so I must respect that I do not have all the right thoughts and answers and others who seem unlike me, who are not Christian (or liberal) are not *ALL* wrong. And if they are atheist or simply different than me I will respect their desire to *NOT* have to pray as I do. God made them too.

Even the most objectionable, God made them.

So I am here humbly offering to my co-worker and anyone else interested in reading this that we all take an extra breath before we pull the trigger against anyone from "the other side". Are we that certain that we are "right"? Is there a chance the opposition has merit? Is it conceivable that we may not have all the needed information before we become condemning?

Remember that extra breath.

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Get out of Cell Phone contracts?

CellSwapper Solves A Very Annoying Problem

What an idea!

I *HATE* cell phone companies. The whole Reagan revolution meant the downfall of customer service and cell phones debut in the same period led the way in customer NO-service.

A major part of the NO-service was the inclusion of terrible contracts for long time periods with exorbitantly high cancellation fees. So along comes this site, CellSwapper, which tries to mate folks trying to leave a contract with others looking to get into one.

There are many reasons to change services, poor coverage, poor sound, etc. can mean you want to change but if you are stuck, this just may be the way to go.

Have a look. Here's hoping you don't find it necessary, but most likely... well, good luck.

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Yugma.com Beta

Yugma : Web conferencing, Online Meetings, Free Web Conferencing, Free Online Meetings, Web Conferencing on MAC, Online Meetings for MAC

I just came across this today and I am really thrilled!

I posted recently about Virtual Networking (VNC) and a one to one ability to operate a remote machine over the Internet with Crossloop.com but this is more for presentations or collaboration but would be great for support as well.

Installing it means downloading some Java and registering an e-mail address to identify you and that's pretty much it. It requires a relatively new Windows or Mac operating system, I have not had success running it on my Ubuntu Linux machine I believe because it doesn't use the most up to date Java but it could be something else.

Once running you get a chat window for communicating and a phone number listing if you want to conference call though it would be a long distance call for most folks.

The program seemed quite well made to me, it runs much as GoToMeeting.com does but without some of the bells and whistles they give for their $50/month service. Yugma.com is flat out *FREE* for up to 10 connections and just $10/month to go up to 20 users and added features of taking control of a remote computer and having hard disk storage online for folks. The free version does allow passing the presenter abilities around amount those connected.

All in all this is a GREAT find and I hope their business goes far.

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