Aviary Phoenix, a really powerful online image editor, used to charge $US25 per year for private online image saving and other select features. As of yesterday, though, the Phoenix editor’s gone entirely free. More »
If Valentine’s Day this Sunday results in you proposing or being proposed to, you can add a nice geeky touch by planning the whole event using Google Docs. Google has released a bunch of wedding-themed templates for the service, including seating charts, reception menus and even a vow-writing template. The kneeling you’ll have to do yourself. [Official Google Blog]
There’s plenty of BlackBerry Twitter apps around, but whether you can get any given one of them to work on any given handset is something of a crap shoot. From that point of view, RIM’s official BlackBerry Twitter app, currently in beta and expected to be formally released in the first half of this year, is a welcome development. More »
We already know Australians don’t fancy the idea of paying for newspapers online. If the latest circulation figures are any guide, we don’t fancy paying for them in print much either. More »
Another twist in the Picasa album limits saga, and another potential issue with Google Buzz: sharing photos via Google’s social networking service eats into your Picasa album count. More »
Windows/Mac: Unfortunately the iPhone and iPod touch lack the ability older iPods had to run in Disk Mode. That’s where iPhone Explorer steps in, allowing you manually manage files on your device, or just use it as a flash drive, without jailbreaking. More »
Microsoft is working on an update to Windows 7 that will close a number of the loopholes Win7 pirates are using to avoid activation, according to CNET. The update is slated for later this month and “closes more than 70 ‘activation hacks,’ according to Joe Williams, general manager of Microsoft’s Genuine Windows unit.” [CNET]
We’ve seen lots of posturing about supermarket pricing in recent weeks, much of which has lacked substance. Woolworths’ latest move is a price comparison tool that lets you see how much items cost in the store. More »
