Posts tagged ‘Free’
Picasa 3.0 Beta Release
It seems google is currently on a big software rollout, chrome yesterday, picasa 3.0 today and googles phone android is not long away either.
So whats new in picasa 3.0? Why should you upgrade?
There’s a brand-new feature called "name tags" in Picasa Web Albums that helps you quickly label all the people in your photos, so you can organize and share your photos based on who’s in the picture. Name tags uses advanced technology to automatically group similar faces together. That way, you can quickly label all the people you care about in your photo collection. Once you’ve labeled your photos, it’s then a snap to do things like create a slideshow with every picture of you and your best friend, or easily share party photos with everybody who appears in that photo album.
They have completely overhauled things like photo collages and slideshows, giving you more creative freedom over composition and layout. Not to mention a brand-new movie maker that can blend photos, video, webcam capture, and music to create customized movies that you can easily share on YouTube.
Theres heaps of other features that i havent listed here, but for more information Click here and head over to googles photo blog.
Download Picasa 3.0 HERE
Friedman & Business ethics
1 hour away till my last uni exam for the semester, I leave you with this wonderful quote. Wish me luck :)
“There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and energy in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game … engages in open and free competition, without deception and fraud … few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundations of our society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible.”
Friedman (1968)
Looking for another free sms alternative? welcome to yaked!
It’s be around 6 months since any new players joined on the free sms front, but here we go again. Check out Yaked!
Pros:
- Unlimited sms! (For now.. wait till Andy and I get our sms partaay’s going.)
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Full 160 characters!
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No advertisement at end of messages
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Message History
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Simple site design
Cons:
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No multiple receipts
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Poor address book layout
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Asks for confirmation to send and dodgy contact add interface. (why not just send the dam message, not ask for 2 confirmations)
Please see the updated list of free sms sites with rankings and pro and con lists here.
h/t TCA
Are you sponsoring anyone for 40 hour famine?
I thought I’d give my sister some free advertising for a good cause. Here’s her message
Monitor your internet bandwidth live from your computer
As I goto this snow season, i have signed up on a optus 3g plan @ $23.95 a month for 200mb. This means I have to be very careful how much bandwidth I’m using as once I go over it will cost me a fortune.
I have found the following tools useful:
Netlimiter: Free version lets you see how much each application is using and statistics on how much in total you have downloaded per hour, per day, per month etc..
DU Meter: Everything that netlimiter does but more! Although this is a paid version for $24.95