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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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.

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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