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Online Photo Editing: FotoFlexer

December 21st, 2007 No comments

I’m sure during this holiday season, you’ll be taking many photos. But not all of them may come out perfect, so you’ll want to do some editing. One way is by doing them locally on you computer with something like Picasa. As you can see from the title, we won’t be talking about editing locally but online.

FotoFlexer
(From http://www.makeuseof.com)

Recently, I stumbled oven something called FotoFlexer. This is an online image editor that is both free and has many features including the basic cropping and red eye fix, but you can also add Effects (“Painting”, “Sketch”) or turn your photo into a greeting card. Another great feature in FotoFlexer is layers, a feature not commonly found online. This is extremely useful in combining photos together. Also, a feature called “Smart Resize” is also very useful. Instead of the normal fashion of cropping, the program removes the parts in the photo with the least “action”. This way you can keep all the important parts while getting rid of parts of things like the sky or water. You can also put a “mask” on top of things you want to preserve, so faces won’t come out disordered. This feature can also make photos larger by copying repetitive parts like the sky.

With the advanced features, the application can sometimes lag or be slow, but mostly it works fine. The website also gives you a few sample photos to try out their editor.

I’ll probably post more to my blog over the Winter Break! Happy Holidays!

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Funny Microsoft Sync Ad

December 21st, 2007 1 comment

This is the new ad for Microsoft’s in-car voice command system.

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Dell Latitude XT Tablet PC!

December 20th, 2007 No comments

The NEW Dell Latitude XT!
The holidays are just about here! And what better way to announce it to the tech world than a tablet from Dell. After about a year of anticipation, a great final product has arrived. No, it isn’t quite in most price ranges, but it still is pretty darn cool.
Right now the “Smart Value” version has the following specs and runs for $2,777. An ULV Intel Core 2 Duo processor at 1.20GHz with Windows XP Tablet Edition, 1 GB of memory, 40 GB of hard disk space, a 24X CD-RW/DVD Drive, an 802.11g wireless card, and an ATI Integrated graphics chip. Check out the website at: http://www.dell.com/tablet

Different Views of the Dell Latitude XT
(Dell.com)

Where the Dell Tablet really shines is the input methods. Not only can you use a pen, which even doesn’t require batteries, you can use your finger too! Dell spent lots of time perfecting this. The touch input resolution is 1000 DPI, which is very precise.

Components of Dell Latitude XT
(istartedsomething.com)

For more info check out this article: http://www.istartedsomething.com/20071120/dell-latitude-xt-specs/
and this video from quite some time ago when Dell first announced the tablet:
http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/05/18/15193.aspx
Oh and this recent Direct2Dell post:
http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/12/11/37914.aspx

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