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Google’s Writely

Started by webomatica · 3 months ago

Spent a while playing around with Google's Writely, a web-residing word processor. It's pretty decent, kind of reminds one of a basic version of Word circa 5.1 on a Macintosh SE30. So it's decidedly stripped down and not really all that great as a desktop replacement, but it lays the fou ... Continue reading »

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  • Actually, wrt to image processing. I'm doing a lot of my quick image processing online now too. Photoshop takes to long to boot up sometimes, or if I'm in Windows (using bootcamp) where I don't have PShop, sometimes I just need an image resized or cropped. Enter my mainstays: pxn8.com or snipshot.com

    Give 'em a whirl. They won't replace Photoshop, but they are definitely useful for certain tasks.
  • Hmmm, seems interesting, although as I played around with pxn8.com and their crop tool, I get "Software error". Finally got it to work. Feels a bit rough around the edges.

    Snipshot feels a bit more intuitive and right to me. I get it right off the bat. I like the dragging around area that kind of simulates a desktop.

    I guess it's kind of a balance between finding the tools that most people would use 90% of the time and not offering enough. Seems like Apple kind of covers this realm for me with iPhoto.

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