Advanced Online Image Editor: Pixlr

If you are a Photoshop heavy user like I am, you are likely to miss it when you are away from home, without your PC or laptop: sure you have Photoshop.com as a great alternative, but it might not satisfy you at all, specially from the layout point of view since it looks totally different from the original version.

Luckily there is a fantastic fully web-based alternative, which will make Photoshop’s absence easier for you: its name is Pixlr, an online full-featured Photoshop-like image editor, which allows you to modify your images without installing any type of software, at begginer’s and advanced levels.
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Best Online Pictures Editor: Photoshop.com

Who doesn’t know Photoshop? You may not be able to use it correctly, or maybe you just want to spend money for a license, but I am sure that when someone mentions “picture editing” you suddenly think of Adobe’s editor program.

It might have happened that, away from home with just an Internet connection, you feel the need to make some simple improvements or changes to your images, and that’s where online image editors come in to help you but I am sure that the best is currently Adobe’s online counterpart to PS.

It is called Photoshop.com, and it allows you to modify your images using any web-browser: it is much easier than the standalone program to use (in fact the features are pretty limited), but it is more than sufficient for you to enhance colors, add captions, resize and crop, adjust lighting and more.
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Download an Entire Facebook Photo Album: FacePAD

I just want to share with you a new extension I found bouncing around on the net, that will allows you to batch download sets of Facebook photos with one single click!

You could simply click on every single photo and download it, but when they become more than 20, the job starts to get boring.

FacePAD is a Firefox extensions that makes this effort easier because,letting you grab all the photos from any Facebook album in a single move.

Better known as the Facebook Photo Album Downloader, FacePAD will not only let you grab your own photo album, but will also let you download your friends’ photo album, event albums, and group albums with the click of a button.

Here is the video:
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Free Photography Search Engines: Cyclo.ps vs Everystockphoto.com

Many people always look for images, free images, to publish on their website, use for publications, or simply to print them off and hang them somewhere. And many of these people have their favorite sites to check on, be it Flickr, Stock.xchng, Fotolia, etc.

Photo Credit: Jay Simmons – Edited by Nicolo’ Canali De Rossi

But many are the free services that allow you to search on all of these photography search engines, with one click, without having to browse millions of pages on different tabs, and today I wanted to present you my favorite ones.
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Free Disposable Email Services

Has it ever happened to you that a service asked for your email address just to send you a password, a download link or anything like that, but you couldn’t give it out, or simply didn’t want to?

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Photo Credit: Ilker

A great solution in order to keep your address all for your self without leaving it to untrusted sites, is to create a disposable Inbox, that will only last for a few hours maybe, that will allow you to receive email messages as if it was a real account.

In this guide I have collected some of the best temporary email services that I found out there:
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Send Any Type Of File With No Size Limits: Fileai.com

File sharing services are becoming quite popular, but they all have limitations in terms of sizes or speeds, and nowadays these are the two variables that we all want to enhance. So is there a website that has no upload process, no size limit, and has a high transfer speed?

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Photo Credit: Jay Simons – Edited by Nicolo’ Canali De Rossi

Fileai.com is a free website that allows you to exchange files of any size just using a browser, without the need of uploading anything on the net.
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Create Your Abstract Art Masterpiece: Bomomo

A web browser, as Wikipedia says, is a software application which enables a user to display and interact with text, images, videos, music and other information typically located on a Web page. But it can also be used for other purposes, such as converting documents, editing or resizing images, sharing files and more.

But what if you are an artist and wish to create a piece of art and have fun just using your favorite browser?

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Bomomo is a free website that you can use to express yourself freely creating abstract art works easily just using your browser.
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Free Web-Based Videoconferencing Solution: MeBeam

Is there a free, simple way to have video conferences online, with no software to install and that can be accessed by anyone? Actually there are some, and I might also write a mini-guide about it one day, but today I want to present you the best one, which is called MeBeam.

MeBeam comes just a simple website in its look, with a central box and some other buttons, but in reality it is a powerful collaboration tool that allows you to create video chat rooms for up to 16 people.
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Team Whiteboarding And Online Collaboration Solution: Twiddla

It is really difficult for teams to share ideas on projects, documents and web pages, specially if the others can’t see and look at what you’re talking about. So is there a browser based service that anyone can use to chat, share pages and talk?

Twiddla is a free web-based whiteboarding software, but also a complete online collaboration solution for every team that needs to communicate in real-time over the internet by chatting, talking, co-browsing pages, and whiteboarding.
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