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Holy Moly. The future just caught up

cushty — Thu, 20 May 2010 21:13:00 +0000

Google announcement, quite understated:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10132877.stm

Search giant Google has launched a TV service that unites live television with the web. Things are a changin’

Photoshop just got very easy?

cushty — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:58:50 +0000

There’s a new feature in Adobe Photoshop CS5 : the ‘Content-Aware Fill’.

This new tool achieves in seconds what would previously have taken hours , and considerable Photoshop skills. Now you can do it in a couple of clicks. Take a look at this demo to see how easy it is to make fake pictures.

Multi Links v2 Firefox addon

cushty — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:46:11 +0000

Multi Links is a pretty nifty Firefox addon….plus the developers have a cool logo.

It allows the user to draw a rectangle on the screen to open all links contained within that rectangle on release. This can be very helpful to open links lists, all threads on a forum page, linked photos in a single blogpost or forum at once.

http://drop.io/

cushty — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:05:09 +0000

Drop.io is a simple file drop. You create an arbitrary directory name on their site and upload files directly into it. Share the resulting URL with anybody else and they can grab any of those files. You don’t have to go through all kinds of complicated steps to set things up; you don’ t even have to register to take advantage of the service. They’re not particular about what you upload, so you can use it to share text files, documents, images, audio, or just about anything else.

Opera 10.5 web browser

cushty — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:46:35 +0000

Opera 10.50 final has just been released. Most users who have noticed the increased development pace of the new Opera browser suspect that it had something to do with the introduction of the so called browser ballot screen in Europe which can be a chance to increase the market share in this popular market.

Opera 10.50 brings a lot of new features to the table, most noticeable the speed improvements which leaves Firefox behind in the dust, at least for now.

Streaming TV?

cushty — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:44:44 +0000

Everyone loves BBCi player right? … well SeeSaw looks pretty good too. Programmes from BBC , 4OD & Five all in one place. OK, theres some ad sponsorship to put up with, but its only a small inconvenience.

Something to play with while we wait for HULU to go live in the UK ?

More PDF malarkey

cushty — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:01:28 +0000

Youblisher takes your PDFs—product lists, multi-page brochures, and such—and fiddles with them to make them behave more like printed catalogs. Then you can use your mouse to flip pages just like a real catalog. Upload your document and these folks convert your PDF into a Flash movie that they host, that supports this flip-through-it behavior. Your users have quick access to your document, and they don’t have to download a PDF and fire up Adobe Reader to look at it.

PDF my URL?

cushty — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:52:51 +0000

Not exactly obvious…but this might just prove useful on occasion?

http://www.pdfmyurl.com/

Google Buzz

cushty — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:56:22 +0000

Its all the rage, http://www.google.com/buzz

Sig Files

cushty — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:09:50 +0000

It’s been narking me that there isn’t in-built support for HTML formatted sig files in Gmail. So I went off and found a solution. Wisestamp – plugin/addon for Firefox and Chrome browsers. Pretty Neat.