Such remote locations include but are not limited to:
- your local library
- the internet cafe down the street from work
- your aunt's house
- those weird McDonald's locations with internet computers inside
- the boss' laptop
- Russia
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Web-based Vi text editor hits the web: text-edit from anywhere!
Such remote locations include but are not limited to:
Photobucket gets image editing features thanks to FotoFlexer
For those who use both services, this is probably unsurprising as FotoFlexer already lets users save their edited pictures to their Photobucket accounts -- as well as any Facebook, Myspace, Yahoo Flickr, and Google Picasa accounts that they know the usernames and passwords to.
Well, at least this saves Photobucket users the hassle of logging into a separate site to do a little basic editing, which comes to a total of 48 seconds saved per photo edited according to our highly (un)scientific calculations.
Performancing Firefox plugin is now ScribeFire
Now you know that PayPerPost acquired Performancing, right? The Performancing Firefox plugin (the blog editor) is now rebranded as ScribeFire. I'm glad the plugin is still its own entity. I am a huge fan of it, and I would hate for any kind of merger, acquisition, or take-over to mess with it. I like it just the way it is. A new name isn't bad in that regard. It may help garner more of an audience for it, not that it doesn't already own the planet in its respective market. I don't know that I have seen anything else (in-browser) like it. ScribeFire, not Performancing. I haven't had a chance to install my stikkit (mental cortex edition, just kidding) but when I do, I will have to make a mental note of it, ScribeFire, I have got to remember that. With the new name, also comes a new website, at ScribeFire.com. Not much there yet, but there will be more coming soon. Stayed tuned.
via TechCrunch
Pixer.us, another web photo editor
Create videos online with Toufee
Gickr: Create animated GIFs online
Gickr is a cool web app that lets you quickly created animated GIFs without leaving the comfort of your web browser. Gickr has two modes: The first mode lets you grab frames for your animation directly from Flickr. Just enter a Flickr username and/or tag and your pictures will pop up, then you can include the ones you want to include in the animation. The second mode lets you upload images from your hard drive. The options are simple and few--you can choose the size of the resulting image from a drop-down and you can pick a speed from "Slow" to "Blasting." Gickr's main purpose is to create simple slideshows rather than sophisticated animations, so you're not able to control looping or change the order of the frames. Refreshingly, Glickr doesn't require registration or anything like that. Take a look after the jump to see a quick animation I put together in Glickr.
PAINT.NET 3.0 alpha is here
I have been using Paint.net for a while now, and it really is a decent editor. Everyone who needs something more powerful than the Microsoft Paint that comes with Windows, but can't figure out Adobe Photoshop needs to take a look at Paint.net. The new alpha release (for testing only of course) has a multiple document interface, which is one of the biggest improvements in the new version. Though it is labeled Alpha, 3.0 is quite stable and usable. It now has common color palette and even a common colors panels too. The formerly slow font-loading problem has been smoothed out, and the fonts show up quickly now. Check it out!
Bleezer: blog anywhere
This is a cool little tool for you bloggers out there: Bleezer. It's a free, no frills blog editor that is cross platform and handles all the major APIs. For people who work on multiple platforms, the Java app is a godsend; it means one layout, one set of keyboard shortcuts, and that means higher productivity, in my book, anyway. That said, there are downsides. Java GUI means slow on many systems, especially Windows, and there are still utf8 bugs to be worked out, at least on Windows. That said, a unfied interface to all my projects is probably worth a couple of growing pains, especially since the price is right: free. Download it for Mac, Windows or Linux (and I don't see it shouldn't run on BSDs with lcompat) and decide for yourself.
Bleezer edit screen
[via Defelxion]
XML Notepad 2006
Everybody likes quick and dirty apps, especially me. Anything quick and dirty that is also free is my holy grail. Microsoft is offering the XML Notepad 2006 for download, which is quick, dirty, and free. It is exactly what it sounds like. It is a simple XML editor for editing XML documents. Sometimes less is more, and this app proves it. XML Notepad does a nice job of helping you organize XML nodes and easily modify XML documents. Like I said, quick and dirty is the focus here, and it isn't (by any means) full featured, but it does it's job well and makes quick work of editing XML, should you ever need to. I 'm sure that most of the time, XML documents are managed by more complex processes and programs, because that is the point after all. This app is nice to have in case you run into a small-scale edit that needs to be done. You don't need to launch your behemoth programming IDE to do it.More screenshots after the jump...
Online image editors compared
Blogger and web designer Christian Watson has posted a round-up and comparison of ten web-based image editing suites along with a very informative comparison table. The editors in question are Cellsea, ImageAuthor, LookWow, NetImager, nexImage, Phixr, Picture2Life, PXN8, Snipshot (formerly Pixoh), and VicImager. His ultimate choice is Cellsea, though in the comments Beau Hartshorne points out that Cellsea began its life as a ripoff of Snipshot's JavaScript code.
Blog editors compared, voted on
We asked you which RSS readers you use, and we even asked why you might not use RSS at all. Now Lifehacker has gone and posted the results of a poll they ran of which blog editors their readers use to create content for all those RSS feeds. Not surprisingly, online editors (what I would assume are the editors from each respective blogging service) won by a landslide. With the easy option out of the way, however, desktop blog editors followed in this editor: Performancing, w.bloggar, ecto (my personal favorite, since it fares a bit better on Mac OS X) and BlogJet. What do you DLS readers think? Does Performancing simply not cut the cake, or is ecto the last editor you'd ever touch? Sound off.
RoRED: Another IDE for Ruby on Rails
I love Ruby on Rails, but I have to admit, the acronym "RoR" kind of annoys me. Anyway, I won't let that idiosyncrasy of mine be a strike against RoRED, a brand new integrated development environment (IDE) for Ruby on Rails. RoRED is Windows-only app that has most of the features you expect in a basic IDE, like syntax highlighting (for both Ruby and HTML/RHTML), tabbed documents, and a file management/navigation pane. It also has easy navigation between methods, bookmarks and "hyperbookmarks," and macros. In addition, it also has a few Rails-specific features, like automatic grouping of model, view, and controller tabs, and buttons for managing servers and consoles. RoRED is free and a pleasantly light download: just 790kb.
[Via Ruby Inside]
Preloadr: Web-based photo editor for Flickr
There's a number of web-based image manipulation apps out there, e.g. SnipShot, but Preloadr sets itself apart by being designed to integrate tightly with Flickr. It uses the Flickr API to let you choose photos from your Flickr library, edit them on the web, and then save them right back to Flickr. It has all of the basic functions you'd expect, like crop, rotate, and resize, plus more advanced functions like color correction, auto contrast, sharpen, curves, even a layers and a decent text tool. It also has unlimited undo/redo, a very welcome feature. Overall, Preloadr is speedy and responsive, and a very impressive tool.Hex Fiend: Free hex editor for OS X
Looking for a free
hex editor for you Mac? Hex Fiend's developer (who goes by the name
of "ridiculous_fish") describes it as "a fast and clever free hex editor for Mac OS X." Hex editors
tend to be fairly bare-bones affairs, but Hex Fiend has some nice features, like the ability to insert, delete, and
rearrange data, a data inspector that lets you view data as integers, floating point, signed or unsigned, big or little
endian, and so on, and capacity for huge files. And did I mention it's free?[Via Simon Willison]
