Thursday, May 31, 2007

Apple CEO Steve Jobs [Video]

Steve Jobs saying 'Internet In My Pocket' we do the really Internet in my Pocket, not a baby one.

Over at All things digital they just released an interview that they had with Steve Jobs. Interesting read especially about the iPhone, iTunes, Apple TV and iPod.





Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Microsoft Surface Computing!










It's incredible!
Again computer revolution has been changing?

Microsoft just announced a very cool new multi-touch computing product, called Surface.
Is thisa iPhone competitor, Nope Its completely Big and more of an environmental computer device. Using the product, people can interact with information using touch, natural gestures and physical objects. So no mouse or keyboard is required.

"Surface turns an ordinary tabletop into a vibrant, dynamic surface that provides effortless interaction with all forms of digital content through natural gestures, touch and physical objects. Beginning at the end of this year, consumers will be able to interact with Surface in hotels, retail establishments, restaurants and public entertainment venues."

Still not believing? No problem do check this video.

Monday, May 28, 2007

Picnik Online Photo Editors

Uploading a photo, editing it and then downloading it back to your hard drive too painful job. To compensate for this, most services allow you to transfer the edited photos directly to Flickr, Webshots or other online photo services.

Picnik is a user friendly service. and Its fast, simple, easy to use and comes complete with built in support for Flickr, Picassa Albums and Facebook albums. Its completely Flash Front end.

There are few online services also offer editing tools that go beyond simple rotation, resizing and cropping and start to creep into Photoshop.

Fauxto

Its a Flash-based Editor and layer-based online tool. It's really good example of flash can do a such application's like this.

Picture2Life

Picture2life is an Ajax based photo editor. It’s focused on grabbing and editing images. You can transferred your photo to Flickr, 23 and Imageshack after editing.

Preloadr

Its a Flickr-specific tool that uses the Flickr API, even for account sign-in. The service includes basic cropping, sharpening, color correction and other tools to enhance images.

PXN8

Its the best of the Ajax based editors and has a great user interface with the main features highlighted on large icons. The basic “enhance” feature does a very good job of fixing the obvious problems with pictures. Edited photos can be transferred to Flickr or Webshots’ AllYouCanUpload service.

Snipshot

Snipshot, previously called Pixoh, is also Ajax-based editing tool.

Apollo Google Analytics

Till now more then few million users can access Google Analytics... An now we have a cool Widget for it. Created with Apollo, yes really thrilled and I’m very excited about this is Apollo Google Analytics created by labs.thesedays


They said the widget is created for Multi-Mania is now available to the public. The widget will show you daily visits for a selected date range and handles multiple profiles from different accounts if you have access to other people’s accounts via the access manager. The interface and charting look nothing like your regular flex app, so besides from being informational it also looks freaking cool on your desktop!




So waiting for what? Try download the Apollo Google Analytics from this site
http://labs.thesedays.com/gapollo/GA_Widget.air

For using this Widget you need to Install the Apollo runtime
So Have Fun!

But my one problem with it is asking my UserName and Password of my Gmail Account. Slightly itching it :(


Thursday, May 24, 2007

JumpCut - Remix Videos


Finally, Flash is the best front end for editing multimedia files online. This isn’t too surprising, given that it’s the best way to play the files, and you need to play the files in order to edit them.

Its aquired by Yahoo. The Yahoo! family keep extended again with the acquisition of online video editing service Jumpcut. Its specializes in letting users remix videos already online or edit their own video with its interface.

Cool one is here Foosball Table.


Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Geni

Looking to remember your long family relationship? then create a family tree of the whole world!

You can start creating your family tree on our homepage through a fun simple interface. It’s extremely simple and fast to build your tree by clicking the yellow arrows in the direction you want to add new family members. As you’ll notice, there is no software download required, no lengthy signup process, and no fees.

There is another key advantage of Geni: When you add a relative, you can also enter his or her email address. In that case your relative will receive an email inviting him or her to join your tree. By clicking a link, your relative will be taken to the same family tree you’ve been working on, but re-centered from that relative’s point of view.

Your relative can then add other relatives, and so on. Your tree will continue to grow as relatives invite other relatives.

Whereas conventional family trees show only your direct ancestors, your Geni tree includes siblings, spouses, cousins, aunts and uncles, and their families. The hope is to identify not just your common ancestors but all your living relatives and in-laws. This makes Geni different from the many great genealogy sites which already exist.

Once you’ve built your tree, you can create an individual profile which allows other relatives to learn more about you and stay in touch. Over time Geni plans to layer on additional family networking features like photo sharing so you can stay in touch with your family network.

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Flash Switcher - Sephiroth

Flash Switcher extension for Firefox

Preview of Flash Switchersephiroth did Flash Switcher extension for Mozilla firefox. It can be useful for Flash developer who want to easily test their pages with different flash player versions.
The extension hasn't been approved yet by the Mozilla developer extension team so sephiroth decided to test it.

This extension comes with all the currently published flash player plugins (from the version 2 to the most recent 9,0,16) and allows you to easily switch from one plugin to another, or also to remove the currently installed plugin (maybe for testing the express install).

Once installed you will find the "flash switcher" icon in the Firefox statusbar at right. Click on it and a list of available options will appear.

Can I add more flashplayer versions?
Yes, even if you should do it manually.
The extensionn folder can be found here:

C:\{userAppData}\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\{userProfile}\extensions\{2b5cfade-d133-429c-aea5-865911de4e1d}
Into the "chrome\plugins" folder you will see different folder (such as 9.0 r16, 8.0 r24 etc) with a file NPSWF32.dll within.

To install a new plugin just create a new folder with the name of the player version and copy into it the NPSWF32.dll file which comes with every flash player installer.
You can find all the old flash Player Versions here

Install flash_switcher.xpi here (currently Windows only)

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Orgoo

All your email accounts, chat, SMS, Video Messaging and more integratd in one place, that is Orgoo.

Its a fresh webmail service and It does emulate Outlook-way desktop mail applications highly well, it also integrates instant messaging from all of the major IM providers directly into the interface. If you are looking for a service-independent webmail/IM service.


What is the identify difference between Orgoo and the major Internet webmail services (Gmail, Yahoo, Live Hotmail, AOL) is that it also integrates instant messaging from all major providers.


Orgoo will offer users 3 GB of storage for free. The service is currently in private alpha testing with a handful of USC students only but will be expanding in the coming weeks to a larger group.


Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Mojiti





Mojiti is free to all users. Mojiti's team is in Beijing, China.
Project Types is Web Applications

What you can do with Mojiti?

Annotate any online video with text, shapes, images, and more and then share your video creation with others and you can narrate personal videos, add subtitles or captions in any language, or comment on any scene. This site supports the top video sharing websites and all major video formats.















Some of the Feature is you can hide your Spot Sets. Hidden Spot Sets will not appear in any search results, RSS feeds, or any other parts of the site unless you are the owner of the Spot Set, Editing and updating your annotations is easy. You can do this directly in the Spot Organizer which appears to the right of the video screen. Mojiti.com has subtitles in over 25 languages on our site.






















I tried a ToonDoo Video and embedded here

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

JavaFX or AJAX of Flash


Yes! Another RIA content development software!

Today the only one King is Adobe Flash for Rich Internet Application Developer tool, and still not clear the transparent usage of Microsoft Silverlight platform (lets wait) and Now the JavaFX from SUN.

At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, Sun will roll out a Java-based product family called JavaFX, which covers Java development from the desktop to the Web to mobile devices. It features a new scripting variant of the Java, called JavaFX Script. JavaFX is a line of products focused on opportunities in the consumer communications market, including desktops, mobile clients, and TVs. The first product release is JavaFX Mobile, a software system for mobile devices.
JavaFX will be open sourced.

Some research analysis report says:
Sun's JavaFX offers up an alternative to AJAX and also vies with Silverlight and Adobe Flash...

Sun officials cautioned that the current release of JavaFX is only an early, alpha release. No date has been set for a general release.

Bookr , Bubblr

http://www.pimpampum.net/

Wow! Its a cool place for creating your own Photo book. you can grab the photos from Flickr then bundle it as a book and embed it in your blog.


See the Bubblr

Browser = OS

GoogleOS? YahooOS? MozillaOS? ZohoOS? (Then what MicroSoft will do?)

Eventually no more Operating System.

Hmmm! Very soon we forgot to store the files in desktop. Every thing store on Internet and access it from Anywhere in the world, no need to carry the laptop and just need a UserName and Password, wow! Really this is OS revolution. The other side is not only access it by Computer... Yes that is mobile...

Monday, May 7, 2007

Lets Talklets

The Textic TEXTplayer is an advanced website text reader. The TEXTplayer uses leading edge AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) technologies to provide a facility to allow any web text to be read out on demand in lifelike voices, or web text saved as audio file for later listening or transfer to a mobile audio device such as an iPod.

When added to a website, the TEXTplayer is usually displayed as a toolbar fixed at the bottom of a browser window but can also be embedded as a 'Minibar' within a web page appearing at the top of the main page content and allowing that content to be read or saved at one click.

How it looks?
TEXTplayer on