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Cloud Based Graphic and Audio editting just became a Free reality

Well, two weeks ago actually - I just forgot to tell you as I've been busy using them

The tool is Aviary, and here's the website.

http://aviary.com/


It's an amazingly useful service. From quick screen grabs, to annotating, to photo editing or logo creation.
The image editting tool is amazingly good - layers, support for alpha layers, erm, - i find it better than gimp just because it's so simple.
Give it a try. Make sure you use it in

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A Ripple from the Wave : Google Buzz thoughts

I wrote a blog post this morning on Buzz - rather than on my blog I figure more people will read it that way. Shamelessly linking it in my blog here as I'd love it if more of you would see the potential and engaging qualities of Buzz, and join me there.

http://www.google.com/buzz/twitamp/J...-Google-Buzz-a

JooJoo 12'' touch pad set to put up a fight.

Hadn't heard of this till today - at $499 it seems a good price. Looking forward to hearing some reviews when it hits the shelves in the US - it's been delayed a few more weeks. It runs on a proprietary operating system - although I suspect that will be a hacked version of linux - we'll have to see. It would be bold of them to release a new device and a totally new build OS at the same time.

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Finished styling my new Blog

I've set up a personal Blog - not an aggregator this time, but a place I will publish things like new websites i'm working on, tips, geeky news and some life stuff.

Take a peek and feel free to spam it It's a simple style but i'm pleased with it, it's been a while since i did any css.

What do you think?

http://coltsplayground.blogspot.com

Kill Dashboard App - for OSX. Neatly disables this total waste of Ram.

A friend of mine posted a really interesting comment on Buzz today - well, interesting for us mac users.
It was that his dashboard was eating ram and he had made an app to disable it. The Mac Dashboard is a collection of widgets that interact with the web, mini web apps - or, from my perspective, Windows Live Desktop - something I have also always hated with a passion. - so weather, search, feeds, etc).

A few links were posted to other, fiddly solutions involving hacking the

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