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Smilart Fan Studio is a new project of the Smilart Company that provides users with the possibility to edit and change their digital photos online. You don’t need graphic editor installed on your computer anymore, you don’t need to learn to work with complicated software and pay for their licenses. You just select and download […]
Google has unveiled a new tool under the search engine’s umbrella, Google Calendar. The shareable calendar service expands from traditional uses to include creating invitations and tracking responses, Gmail integration (where a user can access the calendar without leaving their inbox a nd Gmail automatically recognize events mentioned within a message), receiving event reminders on […]
Web sites that try to suck you into making them your home page have been around for years and I’ve never found one compelling enough to cause me to even consider their offer. Except for a new one I found over the weekend. It has no ads, offers total customization and, for now, anyway, has […]
Think of them as e-mail time capsules. There’s now a bunch of Web Sites That Let Users Send E-Mail to Future. Some like FutureMe.org will go out in a couple of years, reminding recipients what their aspirations were today and how their life was going in 2005. Others like myLastEmail.com or LastWishes.com promise to send […]
One of the reasona Firefox is such a popular Web browser is because it allows you to add all sorts of extra capabilities through mini programs called extensions. The folks at Techtree have put together a handy guide. Extending Firefox.
A Web site called HomePages takes high-resolution aerial photography and applies it to finding homes and businesses. Check our your neighborood by entering your address. If Google’s Earthmap impresses you, wait till you see this. The site is aimed at home buyers but, right now at least, it’s open for a sneak peak. They’ll be […]
Looks like shopping malls aren’t the only busy places this Black Friday. Online shopping sites are getting lots of traffic, too. The BestBuy site was unavailable a couple of times today when I tried. Same with CompUSA. Online shoppers looking for availablity and price comparisons are causing slowdowns on others.
The Web sites offering early peeks at Black Friday sales lists continues to grow. I did a Free Press column on it - MIKE WENDLAND: Smart shoppers get sales info early - and an NBC-TV High Tech Talk video.
Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving when all the stores roll out their best shopping values of the year. Its so called because that’s when many break into the black, that’s how busy they get. Online, speculation and leaked early sales notices abound.At GottaDeal.com, a special Black Friday area is already filled with rumored […]
So if you started digging a hole in your back yard, where would you end up if you went straight through the earth to the other side? Those and all sorts of other questions are being explored as folks do “mashups” of the hugely popular Google mapping service. Offbeat uses for Google Maps
Answers.com is a search tool, but unlike Google and the others it isn’t a directory of web pages, instead it’s an aggregate of dictionaries, encyclopedias and other reference tools. So instead of returning links that may or may not provide you with an answer, it actually provides a straight answer. It’s perfect when you […]
Hans Nyberg has posted some awesome 360-degree panoramic New Year’s Eve shots of Times Square in New York and assorted other places around the world, taken by some first rate photogs.