The Good Life (a Vox.com remnant)

Photoshop Express - Free Online Photo Tool Just Updated

Here is the direct link:
https://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html

clipped from news.cnet.com Adobe's Photoshop Express gets printing, desktop uploader Adobe just updated its Photoshop Express service with a handful of relatively unexciting but useful new features. making it easier to take edited photos and get them printed either for yourself or to send as gifts. There's also a new Adobe AIR uploader that lets you send photos from your desktop to Photoshop Express' cloud storage servers for editing with a simple drag and drop. Another update of interest is the inclusion of music for use in slideshows. Photoshop Express' latest major update included integration with Flickr and several other social photo sharing sites. Adobe's AIR uploader lets you drag and drop photos from your desktop to upload to Photoshop Express.

Better than iTunes - Free iPod manager, converts video, exports music

And you can store it on your iPod for use at another computer. Sweet!

clipped from www.floola.com Music Video Podcast Photos What is Floola? Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod or your Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes). It's a standalone application that can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation under Linux, Mac OS X and Windows (Windows Vista is supported). Features Cross plattform Works on any Windows (98 and above), any Mac and any linux distribution with GTK installed. Copy add and extract songs to and from iPod. Photos Freedom to simply add photos to iPod. Music Play iPod's music. Convert Convert audio and video incompatible formats Search lost files Easily find songs lost in your iPod. Search for duplicates Easily find duplicated songs on iPod. Web videos add files to iPod just copying the page url Podcasts Last.fm Playlists Videos Videos can be added to iPod. Artwork Lyrics Notes Fix iPod clipped from www.floola.com Choose your stable version Linux Mac Windows

Wii - Play Games from SD card with this easy Hack

I don't have a wii so I missed the Twilight Princess hack. But apparently, this is easier and (somewhat) less risky.

See also:
Wii Twilight hack could enable homebrew booting from SD cards
http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/11/wii-twilight-hack-could-enable-homebrew-booting-from-sd-cards/

clipped from www.engadget.com Wii "Twilight Hack" now works sans GameCube adapter Have you been sitting on the sidelines while all the cool people stick Linux distros and Snes9x on their "Twilight Hack" Wiis? Seems like there aren't any more excuses to keep out of the game now that you can do the hack with a regular SD card in the Wii's regular SD card slot -- no more GameCube memory adapters required. No fancy boot sector surgery is required either, you just drop a .elf file onto your memory card and you're ready to go. Check out the video after the break if you still need more convincing. Watch Video Putting Linux on your Wii. Finally, a useful and fun way to spend a Saturday night. Does anyone know if the possibility exists that future versions of Twilight Princess will be patched to prevent users from doing this? In other words, should I buy the game now?

Wii - New Site Makes Homebrew Games Easy-Peasy!

More wii hackery....

clipped from www.engadget.com WiiBrew's Wii Pack Generator takes the "messy" out of homebrew Not that getting some hand-crafted 'brew on the Wii was any great feat to begin with, but the kindhearted individuals over at WiiBrew have decided to make things even easier. The newly released Wii Pack Generator is, in its own words, a "web-based utility that allows you to select from the most recent, up to date, and high quality homebrew for your Nintendo Wii and create a custom pack." Everything you select will be beautifully organized into a .zip or .exe file with the correct structure for easy extraction onto your SD card. Any remaining doubts you had about giving this a go just flew out the window (really, we saw it go down), so check the read link to conquer your fears and start really living. I'd suggest using the Wii homebrew browser right from within the Homebrew Channel. From the homebrew browser, you can download homebrew right to your SD card Damn you and your meager 512 Mb internal memory Wii!

Turn an (old) Xbox into An Home Media Center

I know this is old news, but it is enough to make me want to go buy an original X-box!

clipped from lifehacker.com Transform Your Classic Xbox into a Killer Media Center today a software exploit lets you replace Microsoft's crippled dashboard and run the incredible, open source Xbox Media Center (XBMC) software. You don't have to be a hardcore gamer or Unix hacker to get your XBMC on. Why do you want an Xbox Media Center? it's got a sizable hard drive, fast processor, and most importantly, an ethernet port that can do a hell of a lot more than connect you to Xbox Live. Your modded Xbox running XBMC will be networked with the rest of the computers in your house and let you: Play videos, music and photo slideshows located on any shared drive in the house displayed on the television in your living room Watch Apple movie trailers, YouTube videos, Launch.com videos and see RSS newsfeeds dynamically loaded from the internets Transfer files to and from your Xbox's hard drive Rip DVDs to a shared network drive to play later or backup Watch DVDs sans "dongle" (no more DVD Playback Kit required!)

YuuGuu - Free Web Screensharing/Webinar Software

Awful name, but looks good.

clipped from www.yuuguu.com Work together over the Internet Now you can work with up to 30 people at any one time online for free with Yuuguu Personal Edition! Share your screen, take control and use the business class instant messenger service as part of your daily workflow. All the information you need to get started... Chris Shipley - Demo Fall "We've done enough conference calls and online demos to claim some expertise in this market and we've never seen anything as fast or simple as Yuuguu." The Register "A remote-access application that lets people see, share and take control of each other's screen and applications, with live messaging alongside it. Its promise to be easy to use is the key thing here: if you really don't need 20 years' IT experience and a bum-bag/utility-belt to make head or tail of it, this could be great."

DimDim - Free Open-Souce web meeting software

OK, I'm interested!

clipped from www.dimdim.com Dimdim is the world’s free web meeting where you can share your desktop, show slides, collaborate, chat, talk and broadcast via webcam with absolutely no download required for attendees. Now Open for Everyone Signing up is free and easy. What is Dimdim? Easy, Open, Affordable Web Meetings. Dimdim in the News Find out who’s talking about us. Open Source Community Edition Download our new Virtual Appliance today.

Used by ILM - Free Photo Stitching Panorama Tool

Free demo for non-commercial use. Looks amazing, and needs no user intervention. Just my kind of tool!

clipped from www.cs.ubc.ca Autostitch™ :: a new dimension in automatic image stitching Autostitch™ is the world's first fully automatic 2D image stitcher. Capable of stitching full view panoramas without any user input whatsoever, This is the first solution to stitch any panorama completely automatically, whether 1D (horizontal) or 2D (horizontal and vertical). The Autostitch Process Input images 25 of 57 images aligned All 57 images aligned Final result Gallery For more examples of panoramas stitched using Autostitch, please see our Panorama Gallery Download the FREE demo version now! The version of Autostitch on this website is a demo only. Individuals or companies are free to use images that they generate using the demo version of Autostitch without restriction or royalties so long as they acknowledge the use of Autostitch in such works. A commercial license to Autostitch provides access to the patent, source code, technical support and updates

Hugin - Free Panorama photo stitcher

It is pre-release, but it looks good and is worth keeping an eye on.

clipped from hugin.sourceforge.net hugin - Panorama photo stitcher With hugin you can assemble a mosaic of photographs into a complete immersive panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and much more. hugin has now reached stable state: the software is recommended for general use. A current pre-release version with all the new features can be downloaded for Windows and for OSX or built for Linux. hugin-0.7.0 beta5 released 2008-07-25 10:58 - hugin This is a pre-release snapshot, expect a beta6 or release candidate soon. Read More ... If you want to see some example pictures created with hugin, take a look at thousands of hugin pictures on flickr, or Pablo's gallery or Bruno's panoramas. clipped from hugin.sourceforge.net

Windows Systernals - Great Free Apps and Tweakers from Microsoft

I need a few hours to dig though all the goodies they have here!

clipped from technet.microsoft.com Whether you’re an IT Pro or a developer, you’ll find Sysinternals utilities to help you manage, troubleshoot and diagnose your Windows systems and applications. If you have a question about a tool or how to use them, please visit the Sysinternals Forum for answers and help from other users and our moderators. File and Disk Utilities Utilities for viewing and monitoring file and disk access and usage. Networking Utilities Networking tools that range from connection monitors to resource security analyzers. Process Utilities Utilities for looking under the hood to see what processes are doing and the resources they are consuming. Security Utilities Security configuration and management utilities, including rootkit and spyware hunting programs. System Information Utilities for looking at system resource usage and configuration. Miscellaneous Utilities A collection of diverse utilities that includes a screen saver, presentation aid, and debugging tool.