www.youtube.com/experiencere

Pretty clever

- Scott

http://wallpapers.x3studios.com/



From www.thefwa.com

For those that are sick of farmville or (insert app name here) requests you can now use facebook without all that clutter by a different url:

http://lite.facebook.com/

Presumably developed with mobiles in mind.

:)

I stumbled accross this web app last night and I am honestly impressed. It's what you would probably call a web version of a 'lite' Photoshop, it supports, layers, transparency and all the standard tools, even some of the PS keyboard shortcuts! You can either upload an image or even point to a url and it'll import it for you!

Jump straight to the editor

More info

None of this less than 140 characters nonsense, to post on woofer, you must post at least 1400 characters! The site is identical to twitter, although not affiliated (allegedly) but there are some odd borrowing of code that seems to scrape your profile pic from twitter...

woofer

"Have you seen a truly awful piece of Photoshop work? Clumsy manipulation, senseless comping, lazy cloning and thoughtless retouching are our bread and butter. And yes, deep down, we love Photoshop." This blog is dedicated to the foul ups made around the world by people who think they know what they are doing. It's not the software that is at fault but PhotoShop does however enable these things to happen with regularity. Today the big news was the Microsoft Gaffe, where the image of a black person was doctored with the ghead of a white person. OMG!

http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/

After increasing practise of employees getting reprimanded, suspended or even fired after employers subsequently read what they post online and don't like the look of, now the common person is getting in on the act with lawsuits !

BBC Article

Something that was doing the rounds on the internal email just reminds me how many cowboys are still around from the dotcom boom and still making good money.

http://tinyurl.com/lxgm42

- Scott

After launching their new browser Chrome, Google have experienced a less than stellar start in the browser space after several vulnerabilities and proof of concept attacks have left them with a little egg on their face.  Never mind, it's in beta which leaves them with some excuse to fall back on.  I do however find some of the flaws slightly surprising in that they identical to the ones Apple suffered with their WebKit, which Chrome 'borrowed'.   Lesson learned yet?

- Scott

Forgive me for sounding less than enthusiastic after Google announced their long awaited browser called Chrome.  Google have released under the fabled beta tag and you can now download and use it.  It's a multi-platform (Windows, OSX & *Nix) open source browser (good for some), which has borrowed quite a bit from Apple's WebKit and unsurprisingly Mozilla's Firefox.

Initial use of the browser would indicate a similar speed to Firefox, and sometimes faster with JS, but some sites can be slower than you are used to.  Of course to differentiate themselves from other browsers, chrome have brought some new idea's to the table like process isolation per tab (surprised this doesn't already exist in others), and all in one search/address bar.

Will I switch? Probably not as I love all my extensions in Firefox like Adblock, mouse gestures, firebug that are just not available for chrome.   What it does however mean for me and other web developer is yet another browser that we have to support/test for.  I now make it 5 major ones with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera and now Chrome. And of course Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 as companies are so stubborn (and security lapsed) to bother upgrade it.

What does it mean for Firefox though?  Mozilla recently announced an extension of their deal with Google who pays Mozilla a substantial sum.  In 2006 alone the total amounted to around $57 million, around 85% of the company's total revenue. The deal was originally going to expire in 2006, but was later extended to 2008 and will now run through 2011.  Imagine if you will Chrome taking enough market share from Internet Explorer and Firefox, they could invariably sever their deal with Mozilla leaving them struggling for operating costs.

- Scott