Photoshop Express

From Adobe the makers of Photoshop comes a free web based photo-editor called Photoshop Express.

Pixlr & Pixlr Express

Pixlr is a cloud-based set of image tools and utilities, including a number of photo editors, a screen grabber browser extension, and a photo sharing service. Founded in Sweden in 2008 by Ola Sevandersson , it was intended for non-professionals. The suite was acquired on 19 July 2011 by Autodesk. It can be used on…

Flickr & Aviary

Flickr is a very popular site to search, store and share your photographs. The new Flickr allows you to store and share up to one terabyte (1 Terabyte = 1048576 Megabytes) for free. Although all the photos on Flickr are not free for you to use many are creative commons ans can be used for any…

MS Office Alternatives

If you create documents and spreadsheets for home or school there is hardly any reason to purchase an expensive product like Microsoft Office. There are perfectly good alternatives online. Google Drive The first is the old standby Google Drive. You can view and edit MS Word documents. you can create documents and export them as Docx…

Prezi

This month we well learn to use Prezi an online presentation creation tool. The presentations are far better then PowerPoint because they zoom and fly instead of slide. This makes a more interesting presentation and it might keep your audience from falling a sleep.   Prezi Manual Features and Price

Skype

Skype is a proprietary Voice over IP service and software application. First released in 2003 written by Estonian developers Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn, who had also originally developed Kazaa. Since 2003 it has become a very popular application with 600 million users world wide. It 2011 it was purchase be Microsoft for $8.5 billion….

Microsoft In The Cloud

Like Google, Microsoft has made a major investment in web applications.  Beyond “Outlook” its web-mail client they now have “Office” apps on the web. Office 365 is the online version of “MS Office”. 365 has all of the applications that enterprise users have grown to love including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Office 365 also includes;…

Apps Offline

One difficult problem with living in the cloud is what do you do when you when you have no Internet connection. Many of the application today can be used offline. Gmail – You can use Gmail offline by using a Chrome app call “Gmail Offline” of course. This does not look like Gmail but more…

Everything In The Cloud

In the last 5 years there has been a movement to get you to move all of your tasks to the cloud or Internet.  Today I will show how this works.  No more loosing you data when your computer dies.  Get your documents, email, calendar, notes, and messages everywhere.  Do your work from home and…

Evernote

Evernote is a note-taking application (similar to MS OneNote) that works across operating systems, browser, computers and hand-held devices. What is Evernote? Creating Notes Create a Notebook