Technology. Without Error

Have been busy try out and writing a post on the new operating system from Intel+Nokia > MeeGo!  Even though the Linux based OS needs a bit of smoothing in some areas, my overall experience with the operating system has been awesome! An innovative and simple interface which is so welcoming, is what makes me stick to it for now. Over the course of the past 3 days I have used 3 different operating systems built specifically for netbooks. Firstly, the best available solution: Ubuntu Netbook Remix. Second, the cloud based Jolicloud and finally MeeGo for Netbooks. And I’ve decided to stick with MeeGo for a while.

I’ve liked Amplify for being easy to use and for being based on my favourite WP engine. So for the first time, here is an autopost to all my services from my Amplify page. But is Amplify good enough to take over my posterous? I’m not so sure about that. Just like MeeGo, amplify needs to spend sometime smoothening out a few bits until it replaces my main “easy-to-post” blog engine!

You need to edit an image real quick and you are working either on a netbook or someone else’s machine which doesn’t have a copy of your favourite photoshop. Or maybe you never had photoshop in the first place.
Adobe Photoshop has become the premier digital one stop solution for image editing and it should come as no surprise that more than a few would have attempted to ride the photoshop success wave with their own clones.

The first clone which I have been using for a while is the Aviary Phoenix online image editor. Mind you, this has even support for layers and can handle almost anything you might want to get done with an image. Its completely on the cloud (and free as well) and all you need is your trusty Firefox (or any other browser) by your side to edit your image. I guess there’s a sign up required but that’s not so cumbersome. Being a web app has its advantages, such as being able to capture any webpage easily and Aviary even has a firefox addon. Aviary has a complete suite of applications for every possible form of image editing requirement online.

The second is a very light weight application called the Artweaver. Now artweaver is a fully functional free image editor. Users of photoshop would find themselves completely at home because of the interface. What’s more, it even supports export/import as Photoshop format files (PSDs).
The Artweaver interface (I love GITS!!)

Artweaver even has a portable version which you can run off a USB key. You can further enhance artweaver with a number of plugins (which you can find on the download page), you even get to extend it to use XnView, the freeware image viewer.

Both these applications would not be able to replace Photoshop for power users. But when it comes to basic image editing, they get the job done quite well!