Wednesday, December 5, 2007
kuler
Kuler is an easy-to-use but advanced color creation tool that's great for designers. It's also fun for people who just like playing around with color ...
Adobe Edge: December 2007
The scoop on Buzzword, the first web-based word processor
Three years ago in October 2004, I was on the O'Reilly Media campus and the proverbial light bulb clicked on. Tim O'Reilly was in front of the group and he was rolling out his Web 2.0 spiel. I'd heard him do it once before, but this time a key phrase grabbed my attention: platform shift.
I have been in the software industry since the 1970s. In fact, in the '80s I was responsible for managing Lotus Manuscript, a DOS word processing product. I have also been an English teacher, writer, and bookstore owner.
Monday, December 3, 2007
Google to Buy GrandCentral
Google is about to acquire GrandCentral, a service that links all your phone numbers and gives you a
* Check your messages by phone, email, or online
* Keep all your messages online for eternity
* Record and store your phone calls (just like voicemail)
* Quickly (and secretly) block an annoying caller
* Click-to-dial from your address book
* Surprise your callers with a custom voicemail greeting
* Turn your MP3s into the ring tones your callers hear
* Forward, download, and add notes to your messages
"GrandCentral gives people one phone number for life. This number is not tied to a phone or a particular location; it's tied to you. GrandCentral is a unified communications service that integrates all your existing phones, numbers and voicemail boxes and bridges the gap between voicemail and email."
The service is available only for the US and Canada,
Friday, October 26, 2007
Good tool for downloading websites
HTTrack is a free (GPL, libre/free software) and easy-to-use offline browser utility.
It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system.
WinHTTrack is the Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP release of HTTrack, and WebHTTrack the Linux/Unix/BSD release. See the download page.
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Friday, October 12, 2007
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Aware Image Resizing
Shai Avidan, Ariel Shamir
Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 26, Number 3,
SIGGRAPH 2007
Video