Abbey Graphics Spotlight

Website of the MONTH

 

REMEMBERTHEMILK.COM

 

This is sight that I found awhile ago but just started using recently. The developers of the side are from Australia and have done a wonderful job of putting this side together. If you have ever needed a place to keep all of you task that you have to get done this is the site for you. You sign up for a free account ( a pro account is also available for $25 / year) and start organizing you tasks right away. The site will allow you to setup email reminders that can be sent to any email address or even a SMS message reminder send to you mobile phone. The sigh even has plug-ins for gmail and google calendar.

WEB SITE of the MONTH

This weeks website is Box.net. This is a free online storage and backup solution that we have been using here at Abbey Graphics. The free service give you 1 gigabyte of storage online which is plenty to store low rez photos and important word documents. Premium services of $7.95 a month for 5 gigabytes of storage and $19.95 a month for 15 gigabytes of storage. We have used box.net as a make shift FTP site as well as online storage. This is a great service and you can't beat the price, FREE.

Pat Martin
www.abbeygraphics.com

WEB SITE of the MONTH

THIS WEEK IN PHOTOGRAPHY


"This week in Photography" is a new Photography Blog and PodCast that is the brain child of Alex Lindsay and Scott Bourne of the Pixel Corps. It is a weekly podcast that covers all aspects of photography from hardware to software, reviews of new digital camera and photoshop techniques. We have been listening to the podcast for approximately a month now and find it to be one of the most informative shows out there. This week in photography is also a member of the Flickr community and maintains a flicker group where members can upload there photos for comments and contests. Visit This Week in Photography, you will not be disappointed.

Pat Martin
www.abbeygraphics.com

Web Site of the Month

SPEED TEST. NET

Have you ever wonder what your internet speed you are getting from your Internet Service Provider (ISP). Have you ever wanted to compare the speeds you are getting with other in your neighborhood or around the world. Well speedtest.net is the site we have been using for a years now. There are many of these sites on the net and I find them quite useful. If you go to Speed Test you will be greeted with a map of North America and a number of servers you can choose from. Pick a server and Speed Test will conduct and upload and download and then save you results. You can come back at different times and compare you results. The site also provides top five bandwidth countries and ISPs. You can compare you results with other ISPs and other countries around the world. This is a very useful site and should be in you bookmarks at all times.

Pat Martin
www.abbeygraphics.com
 

Web Site of the MONTH

PICNIK.COM

This is a great website we located while surfing the net. Its a site that can be helpful to the novice or advanced amatuer photographer who does not want to invest heavily in photo editing software or just wants to make a quick edit a photo online.

Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames.
It's fast, easy, and fun.

You can upload a photo from your computer to the Picnik site and autofix, rotate, crop, resize, adjust exposure, adjust colour, fix redeye and sharpen you image is seconds. No registrations is nessessary although a pay account is available to enable more features. Once you have you image the way you like you can safe it back you desktop and continue on. This is a great site for those of us with small hard drives or slower computer that do not wish to run photo  editing software locally. Picnik also works with other online sites such as Flickr, Facebook, Photobucket and Webshots.

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