Technology. Without Error

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!

I was getting really bored so decided to visit one of the email websites which I had subscribed to long back..(really really long back)..I had signed up for the service since it was a flash enabled email interface…When I went over to the website, I realized that a lot had changed..it was like going back to the house where you spent your childhood after a long long time (ok that was too much of an exaggeration) What I meant was that the site had changed a lot for the better..It not only boasts of a flash interface but gives you a complete online desktop at your disposal..I would say this is the future of the web..Real web 2.0 (now for more on that click on the link which should take you to a lovely blog on the subject)…I have received a few forwards about how google is planning to come out with an online operating system…But till it comes around, I would like to taste the future..The website belongs to aol now and its got everything integrated into it (online storage space, email, chat, bookmarks, search and even games) In fact, the games on the website are not just there for the sake of being there…Some of them are plain outstanding…I loved the feel so much that I decided to dedicate a whole post just for the website.