Adobe, best-known for incredibly overpriced software, has unleashed a public beta of Photoshop Express, which offers users the same functionality as Flickr, albeit with lots of nice effects.
"Photoshop is trusted technology that has changed the visual landscape of our world. Now, Photoshop Express allows anyone who snaps a digital photo to easily achieve the high-impact results for which Adobe is known," said Doug Mack, vice president of Consumer and Hosted Solutions at Adobe in a statement.
Ahh, nothing like PR hyperbole. The "visual landscape of our world" actually looks quite the same as I sit here, gazing out my window. No matter, Photoshop Express could prove successful as both a service and marketing tool for Adobe products.
Adobe Photoshop Express features the most widely used photo effects, such as removing blemishes and red-eye, converting to black and white, cropping and resizing, and much more. It can also embed or link photos to social networking sites and personal blogs without having to leave the application.
Just when I thought workplace productivity had hit an all-time low, I find out that South Park Studios is now offering up every episode of South Park to watch online for free. There's no registration, and no inundation of ads like you'll find on previous, less than official solutions like allsp.com and southparkzone.com. You'll find not only your favorite episodes from years past like 'An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig,' 'Cripple Fight,' and 'Hellen Keller! The Musical,' but also the most recent 'Britney's New Look' which aired just last night.
So what favorite South Park moment will you be watching over and over while pretending to get work done? It's tough to spotlight a single moment from a show that's provided us with AWESOM-O, the Trapper Keeper, Osama bin Laden's farty pants, Professor Chaos, and of course hilarious celebrities like Tom Cruise, Michael Jackson, and Paris Hilton.
Personally, my favorite moment will still always be Cartman singing Heat of the Moment before Congress in the episode 'Kenny Dies' from season 5, which I've embedded after the jump.
Close your eyes and imagine a world with no internet or cell phones. If you start to panic, you may be the victim of an official brain illness.
The American Journal of Psychiatry recommends that internet addiction, including "excessive gaming, sexual pre-occupations and email-text messaging", be added to psychiatry's official guidebook of mental disorders as a common compulsive-impulsive disorder.
Verizon Communications Inc. has announced that it plans to help its users share files faster via peer-to-peer file sharing, or P2P. P2P is the primary method for illegal pirating and has always been unpopular with Internet service providers.
According to Arbor Networks, a company that tracks online traffic, file-sharing accounts for at least one-third of all internet traffic. Verizon has collaborated with Yale University and various other companies to enable faster downloads for consumers.
Verizon's new "P4P Working Group" was created to connect users to others close by, and not randomly across the internet. Currently, only 6.3% of the data that a Verizon customer downloads comes from a local user. In the P4P trial, 58% of the data came from nearby Verizon users. This drastically reduces the company's cost of carrying the traffic.
If you're like me and are frequently at the office, in class, or otherwise away from a TV when your favorite program is on but always have a laptop with you, then www.channelsurfing.net is about to become your new best friend. They provide daily feeds of most sporting events, as well as some of the most popular television shows like The Office, Lost, and Celebrity Apprentice. As long as you've got a computer and an internet connection you can keep up on your TV from where ever you may be. Some of the streams only work in Internet Explorer, and others might require third party software, but for the most part many will play as-is in Windows Media Player. I won't go into the copyright issue, but be sure to read their Terms of Use as I get the feeling their services would be considered less than legal in some places.
Now you can enjoy March Madness from the comfort of your...er...desk.
