Personally, I prefer Picnik, but Aviary.com has a neat little trick for taking screenshots of web pages. Just add Aviary.com/ before the URL, and it will create a screenshot of the webpage. For example, http://aviary.com/brian.carnell.com will take a screenshot of the home page of this site.
Month: July 2009
Imagine No Religion Billboard
The Freedom from Religion Foundation has created quite a controversy with its atheist billboard campaigns, like this one,
Of course half the fun with these sorts of campaigns is getting people outraged at what is, frankly, a fairly tame message. The billboards are certainly no more confrontational or in-your-face than religious-themed billboards (though, in general, I find billboards to be an eyesore).
Alien Book Hugger
Nice project making a bookmark patterned on the face hugger from the Alien films.
EyeOs – Open Source Cloud-Based Desktop
EyeOS is an open source project to create a browser-based OS that you can host on your own server(s).
It is mainly written in PHP, XML, and Javascript. It acts as a platform for web applications written using the eyeos Toolkit. It includes a Desktop environment with 67 applications and system utilities. It is accessible by portable devices via its mobile front end. eyeos lets you upload your files and work with them no matter where you are. It contains applications like Word Processor, Address Book, PDF reader, and many more developed by the community.
It is already a fairly full-featured system, but there’s a nice roadmap for a January 2010 2.0 release that will include a nice-looking collaborative document editing feature among other things.
Star Wars Flash Drives
Since there can never be enough Star Wars merchandise (apparently), Star Wars flash drives seemed the obvious way for Lucascorp to go. Along with Yoda, a Boba Fett, C-3PO, Darth Vader and others will be available in October 2009. Unfortunately there was a bug in the Han Solo version — it turned out you had to insert the Greedo flash drive first before it would work.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Cake
Awesome 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea cake seen over at GeekCrafts.
