#36 - Image editing at Splashup

Wow! I can't believe I missed this site. Splashup (formerly called Fauxto) is an image editing site and a fairly powerful one at that. It has a lot of features that one might expect from Adobe Photoshop or GIMP. You don't even need to sign up, you can jump right in and edit an image. I'm sure that after editing one image you'll register. I can't wait to tell friends about it.

Some of the features include:

• Tools like crop, lasso, pens and brushes, fill and shapes.
• Filters to sharpen, blur, pixellate, desaturate, adjust hue/saturation or brightness etc.

There's quite a lot to do. I quickly created the following image



You can work with new images as well as existing ones from your computer, Flickr, Picasa or Facebook accounts.

I'll use this site again!

Cheers, webgurl

#35 - Mini-blogging with Twitter

Well I tried joining up to Twitter. I must say I've never really seen the point of Twitter. I'm not really that interested in what people are up to at any point in the day.

Anyhoo, I started filling out the form. At the moment I'm stuck on Stage 2 - Fetching contacts. First up you have to fill out a Yahoo/Hotmail/AOL email address and your password so that Twitter can check your contacts. There is no skip option. So I finally thought oh well I'll add my Yahoo address. Twitter is stuck trying to load the contacts.

In searching the web to see if there were any problems using Twitter in Australia I did find several blog articles that mentioned Twitter via SMS had been suspended because of the high costs.

So I'm done with this. I surfed on over to Jaiku. I had to request an invite - they'll let me know when there's an account available.

Cheers, webgurl

#34 - Better health

Fit day is a website to assist in monitoring your diet and exercise. You can fill out a food and exercise journal, set goals and obtain reports. Once you set up the minimum intake of vitamins, calories, water etc and you regularly fill out the food journal you can get a report to let you know if you are meeting your requirements for all of these nutritional items.

It's great to see the things you need to work on. For example if you need to add more calcium to your diet.

If you have a PC, you can also purchase a copy for your computer.

Cheers, webgurl

#33 - Online Art

Had a lot of fun with this one. I'd already knew Mr Picasso Head so I played with the Falling Sand game. The game involves four main falling particles: sand, water, salt, and oil. Each of these particles have special properties that can be manipulated and combined to model. You can draw shapes on the page to divert the particles. A twirling namekuji can delete anything you draw. Work quickly!

Cheers, webgurl

#32 - Omnidrive

Omnidrive is an online storage site. I could sign up for a free account with 1GB of storage. If I pay for a Pro account I can get up to a Terabyte of storage. The pro accounts also have encryption for extra security.

You tell Omnidrive who you want to share a file with and the file can only be read or edited by those people you share it with.

It's great if you want to do some work at home. You can upload the required files to Omnidrive and work on your home computer. It goes hand in hand with Zoho.

Curious though that I've used up 2.7MB and I haven't uploaded anything yet.

I uploaded a phone manual for work that I had been working on at home. Once uploaded I double-clicked on the file and it opened up in Zoho. I could then edit the document.

This is pretty good. I would probably only use it as temporary storage but it works for me. Of course I would need to use it regularly because if I don't log in for 60 days the account is removed.

I uploaded an image and the procedure for editing wasn't very obvious. You had to right-click on the file and select edit from actions. Could use some icons in a toolbar to make it more obvious. I could resize, rotate, make it greyscale and crop. I might suggest using omnidrive/snipshot for those people needing access to an image editor. Cool!

Cheers, webgurl