Photoshop Alternative Artweaver Helps Edit Your Images [Featured Windows (35)
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Windows only: Free application Artweaver isn't just a Photoshop alternative like GIMP, but a fair clone of Photoshop itself. While Artweaver lacks the polish and advanced feature sets of Photoshop, the menus are laid out like they are in Photoshop and the tools function close enough that use is intuitive. The programs are so similar, in fact, that seasoned Photoshop users will find themselves wondering why a feature is suddenly missing from the menu. While ...
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Paul said:
Simply stunning. Free, non-bloatware like Photoshop can be, and comes all zipped up as a no-install program.Mirror:http://drop.io/artweaver
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Dustin Diaz said:
Whoa, a free photoshop-like software that's not GIMP!
Five Best Calendar Applications [Hive Five] (37)
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Nothing's more important to your productivity arsenal than a solid scheduling tool, and considering so much of what we do happens at the computer, a good calendar application is just the thing to bring order to your agenda. On Tuesday we asked you to share your favorite calendar application, and today we're back with the five most popular answers. Keep reading for a detailed look at the top five and to cast your vote for ...
Blindingly Fast Touchscreen Text Entry System Gets a Push By Creator of T9 [Cellphones] (22)
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Everyone who has owned a cellphone over the last ten years should at some point pour one out in thanks to Cliff Kushler, one of the inventors of the T9 text entry system that knows you mean "DONKEY" when you type 366539 in an SMS. Now Cliff is smartly shifting his focus on touchscreens with Swype—a way to type blindingly fast on a touchscreen by tracing your finger or stylus over the letters you want ...
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Jared Zimmerman said:
can't wait
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Rex said:
awesome touch-screen typing from the creator of T9
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Zach said:
very cool & clever. The only problem is: how do you type "qwerty"?
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Dave said:
Wow, this is really freaking cool!
Greasemetal: Greasemonkey for Google Chrome - ReadWriteWeb (47)
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While Google only announced its own browser last Tuesday and did not include an API in this first release that would allow developers to create extensions for it, Japanese developer Kazuho Oku found a way to run userscripts on Google Chrome. While its functionality is still limited and only a small number of scripts work on it so far, Greasemetal is already showing a lot of promise and works exactly as advertised, even though it ...
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dd said:
Japanese developer Kazuho Oku found a way to run userscripts on Google Chrome. While its functionality is still limited, Greasemetal is already showing a lot of promise and works exactly as advertised, even though it is not compatible with all Greasemonkey scripts yet.
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Josh Bancroft said:
A nice first step toward Chrome extensibility.
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Vish said:
That was quick ...I keep going back to firefox to use gmail as I cannot live without a couple of greasemonkey scripts. Maybe greasemetal will help me transition completely.
25 Million People Have Now Downloaded Adobe AIR (28)
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Adobe AIR, the Rich Internet Application framework that brings together the responsiveness of the desktop, the connectivity of the web and the dazzling good looks made possible by working in conjunction with other Adobe apps, has hit an important milestone this week. The company announced last night that the software has now been downloaded more than 25 million times. If you've been wondering when AIR would become more than an edge case platform to develop ...
Photrade Makes Selling and Licensing Your Photos Easy (13)
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The DEMO Fall conference today saw the launch of a number of interesting online photo applications. Out of this group, one service that especially caught our eye was Photrade, which not only gives you an online photo album, but also the option to easily sell copies of your photos and license them to other web sites. During the open beta, Photrade is giving all users a Pro account for the next year, with the ability ...
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Muzo said:
goktug? ali? ;)
WebChunks Puts Dynamic Information from Any Web Site in Your Toolbar [Featured Firefox Extension] (18)
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Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension WebChunks creates bookmarks to monitor any section of a web site. Based on Internet Explorer 8's WebSlices feature, the latest release of WebChunks allows you to subscribe to any area of a web page—whether the developer set it up for use with WebSlices or not. The gist, then, is that you can bookmark a dynamic section of a web page and quickly bring it up any time by clicking the ...
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Wei said:
火狐的WebSlice
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Ru> said:
Super cool possibilities, Please let me know if you see 2 shared entries of this article.
Alerts sends you email and SMS alerts for practically anything (14)
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Filed under: Internet, E-mail, Web services Have a hard time keeping up on stocks, sports scores, birthdays, gas prices, and pretty much everything? Alerts is a new service launching at DEMO that will send you email or SMS alerts for a wide range of items so you can get updates without remembering to check a calendar or visit a web page. While there are a number of other services out there that offer email alerts ...
Google Launches Newspaper Digitization Project [Newspapers] (40)
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Google says it's bringing history online, one newspaper at a time with a new initiative to digitize millions of newspapers—like this article from the 1969 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the moon landing.
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Bwana said:
Meh...
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Vince said:
Is there anything that Google can't do?
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zemlanin said:
HOLY SHIT, MAN WALKS ON FUCKING MOON
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Davis S said:
@charleton Jacki Haun would love this. We both really wanted to do this for Lawrenceville's papers but it is expensive.
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thr33 said:
جوجل انهبلوا :)ماكفاهم البحث في النت قالوا ياخي ليه الجرايد مانبحث فيها بعدبس ماهو بحث الكتروني بل بحث كامل وكانك تتصفح الجريدةالى درجة عمل تظليل على كلمة البحث في صورة الجريدة!!والبحث في عناوينها والكلمات في مقالاتهاطبعا مازالوا في البداية والبحث يكون من قسم جوجل نيوزفاذا بحثت مثلا عن عبارة الهبوط على القمر بالانجليزية فسيظهر بين النتائج عبارة اقرا المقالة الاصلية مثلاقارن بين هذين الرابطينالاول كان البحث عن اسم الجريدة نفسهاhttp://news.google.com/newspapers?id=w0sNAAAAIBAJ&dq=pittsburgh&sjid=D20DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6256,2864141والثاني كان لاسم رائد الفضاء ارمسترونج-ستلاحظ تظليل اسمه على صفحات الجريدة وهي نفسها من الرابط السابقhttp://news.google.com/newspapers?id=w0sNAAAAIBAJ&dq=armstrong&sjid=D20DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6256%2C2864141
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n8k99 said:
i think that this is a really nice project, getting all the archives of inforamtion that are crowding up the local libraries all over teh country into the great googe database in the cloud will really make research a whole new ballgame.
Google Patent for Water-Based Data Center (22)
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Brian Ussery via Google Blogoscoped shared by 4 people Google’s latest patent titled “Water-Based Data Center” describes various implementations for deriving power from water while at the same time using water as a method for cooling. One method proposed is a ship-based data center platform capable of being deployed quickly to offer greater flexibility than traditional land based data centers. These Water-Based Data Centers would be powered by natural energy derived from wave motion via ...
Smart Shutdown Offers More Ways to Turn Off Your PC [Featured Windows Download] (13)
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Windows only: Just when you thought a simple shutdown button was all you needed to turn off your computer, Slawdog's free Smart Shutdown utility offers so many more useful options. If you're always forgetting to turn off the old PC before you wander off to do other things, Smart Shutdown can automatically hibernate, restart, lock, or shut down your PC after a set amount of idle time (like 30 minutes), with options to kill open ...
iContact: Desktop manager for your Google address book (5)
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Filed under: Internet, Windows, E-mail, Google, Freeware If you have most of your contact information tied up in your Gmail account but need quick and easy access to names, phone numbers, and email addresses on your desktop, iContact can help. Sure, you could set up Outlook or Thunderbird to sync with Gmail, but iContact is far easier to use and it even comes in a portable version that you can run from a USB flash ...
Google Chrome Receives Heavy Criticism in Germany (51)
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It doesn’t get any more “official” than this here. Yesterday, Saturday at around 20:07, Germany’s oldest and perhaps biggest prime time news Tagesschau announced the following under the headline “Warning against internet browser"*: <<The Federal Office for Information Security warned internet users of the new browser Chrome. The application by the company Google should not be used for surfing the internet, as a spokesperson for the office told the Berliner Zeitung. It was said to ...
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francly said:
I believe Google NOT evil
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Fiorano said:
Chrome真的“安全”吗？
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Symbo said:
GOOG is Big Brother.It's official in Germany.
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fesja said:
estos alemanes están para allá...
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Carl said:
Paranoid much?
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Mark Whiting said:
There are some great things that would never happen if privacy is given such strength.
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thr33 said:
الالمان في الاخبار يحذرون من جوجل كروم!!!عجيب
DDoS + Web 2.0 == Buckets o’ traffic (1)
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Denial of Service attacks are based upon a simple idea: generate the maximum amount of traffic using the minimum amount of work. At one time this was as simple as sending a spoofed ICMP echo packet to a broadcast address or similar shenanigans. Modern DDoS attacks rely upon the unwilling complicity of tens [...]
