Both are freeware (Picasa and Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition). But you can tell Adobe has spent a lot more time on
usability testing. Picasa won't let me sort newest to oldest, just
oldest to newest. Also I noticed a confirmation dialog in Picasa --
something you won't see in Adobe.
I'm getting annoyed using Picasa -- I'm going to stick with Adobe until Google puts their usability gurus on the case.
3. offer an IM ala Jabber that allows us to get email notification like MSN Messenger does.
Picasa makes an IM called Hello. Unfortunately none of my friends use it, but Hello has one very useful feature: it lets you post images to your Blogger blog -- unlimited image hosting for your blog.
If Picasa includes the ability to create online photo galleries, linked to a user's Blogger account so he can publish them on his blog, then it would be quite neat.
Not sure if you already know this, but the Picasa company has a tool called Hello that can be used to publish images to your Blogger blog -- not exactly gallery-functionality that you specifically want, but still pretty cool because they're hosting an unlimited number of images for you.
PS: Not machine learning, but the sole requirement by me for a browser (dunno if its done in firefox now as hvent used it for a long time): Open new tab as a default rather than a new window, or at least provide the option.
You might want to check out the Tabbrowser extension. It's the only extension I install now on Firefox.
I'm on the JUMP development team and I hope it meets your needs. It's a good program for editing 10MB shapefiles. It can also edit GML, though not as easily. And it has a simple Java plugin system, so you can make it understand any data format (or database) (or do anything for that matter).
Feel free to contact me or to sign up on the mailing list for the JUMP Unified Mapping Platform.
I agree -- I almost have everything on the web except for a Java IDE and an office suite. Most of my web data is in GMail and blogger. Here are the web services I use (as a Firefox sidebar, no less)
Unfortunately the TTS service has a 30-word limit. Good enough for creating interesting voicemail messages though.
Jesse -- I'm grateful for the bookmarlets you've provided on your site -- it makes Firefox an even more powerful browser.
The text-to-speech form comes from AT&T (very very natural sounding, I might add) -- it's a post form, so I had to use the new-window trick in the bookmarklet.
I'm intrigued by your "a:not([href^="javascript:"]) { display: none }" comment -- what is this "edit styles" you mention?
I prefer bookmarklets to plugins where possible because I can simply add them to my bookmarks page, which I load as a Firefox sidebar. Thus my work Firefox and my home Firefox are always in sync.
Thus, the only Firefox plugin I need to install is Tabbrowser Extensions. I've already got bookmarklets for searching on the selected text, finding the definition of the selected text, text-to-speeching the selected text(!), blogging the current page, dragging a rectangle and seeing its extent (!)
... containing bookmarks and *bookmarklets* (Click here) So select some text and click "Google". Or if you're in the Google search results, click the "@" beside Yahoo to change to the Yahoo search results. Or select some text then click "TTS" to get it read out to you. If you're a Blogger user, click "BlogPage" to create a blog entry for the current page. Click "ACF" to create a Usenet post for alt.comp.freeware. etc.
You might want to read What Colour Is Your Parachute. Resumes will get you a job 2% of the time. A method for getting a job 80% of the time is to simply walk in, ask to talk to the boss, and ask for a job face to face.
* access it from anywhere - even from your Palm or phone using post-by-email
* your friends can see what's on your mind
* make visual notes by taking digicam pics and having a script upload them to your blog
I've been very pleased with the Yahoo's free utility for HotSyncing my Palm with Yahoo Calendar, Addressbook and Notepad. Yahoo's tools have more features than Palm Desktop; plus, they can be accessed from any web browser.
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Both are freeware (Picasa and Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition). But you can tell Adobe has spent a lot more time on usability testing. Picasa won't let me sort newest to oldest, just oldest to newest. Also I noticed a confirmation dialog in Picasa -- something you won't see in Adobe.
I'm getting annoyed using Picasa -- I'm going to stick with Adobe until Google puts their usability gurus on the case.
3. offer an IM ala Jabber that allows us to get email notification like MSN Messenger does.
Picasa makes an IM called Hello. Unfortunately none of my friends use it, but Hello has one very useful feature: it lets you post images to your Blogger blog -- unlimited image hosting for your blog.
If Picasa includes the ability to create online photo galleries, linked to a user's Blogger account so he can publish them on his blog, then it would be quite neat. Not sure if you already know this, but the Picasa company has a tool called Hello that can be used to publish images to your Blogger blog -- not exactly gallery-functionality that you specifically want, but still pretty cool because they're hosting an unlimited number of images for you.
JPluck's great for scraping websites and RSS/Atom feeds onto a Palm on a scheduled basis.
PS: Not machine learning, but the sole requirement by me for a browser (dunno if its done in firefox now as hvent used it for a long time): Open new tab as a default rather than a new window, or at least provide the option. You might want to check out the Tabbrowser extension. It's the only extension I install now on Firefox.
I'm on the JUMP development team and I hope it meets your needs. It's a good program for editing 10MB shapefiles. It can also edit GML, though not as easily. And it has a simple Java plugin system, so you can make it understand any data format (or database) (or do anything for that matter).
Feel free to contact me or to sign up on the mailing list for the JUMP Unified Mapping Platform.
I agree -- I almost have everything on the web except for a Java IDE and an office suite. Most of my web data is in GMail and blogger. Here are the web services I use (as a Firefox sidebar, no less)
Unfortunately the TTS service has a 30-word limit. Good enough for creating interesting voicemail messages though. Jesse -- I'm grateful for the bookmarlets you've provided on your site -- it makes Firefox an even more powerful browser.
The text-to-speech form comes from AT&T (very very natural sounding, I might add) -- it's a post form, so I had to use the new-window trick in the bookmarklet.
I'm intrigued by your "a:not([href^="javascript:"]) { display: none }" comment -- what is this "edit styles" you mention?
I prefer bookmarklets to plugins where possible because I can simply add them to my bookmarks page, which I load as a Firefox sidebar. Thus my work Firefox and my home Firefox are always in sync. Thus, the only Firefox plugin I need to install is Tabbrowser Extensions. I've already got bookmarklets for searching on the selected text, finding the definition of the selected text, text-to-speeching the selected text(!), blogging the current page, dragging a rectangle and seeing its extent (!)
... containing bookmarks and *bookmarklets* (Click here) So select some text and click "Google". Or if you're in the Google search results, click the "@" beside Yahoo to change to the Yahoo search results. Or select some text then click "TTS" to get it read out to you. If you're a Blogger user, click "BlogPage" to create a blog entry for the current page. Click "ACF" to create a Usenet post for alt.comp.freeware. etc.
You might want to read What Colour Is Your Parachute. Resumes will get you a job 2% of the time. A method for getting a job 80% of the time is to simply walk in, ask to talk to the boss, and ask for a job face to face.
* access it from anywhere - even from your Palm or phone using post-by-email * your friends can see what's on your mind * make visual notes by taking digicam pics and having a script upload them to your blog
I've been very pleased with the Yahoo's free utility for HotSyncing my Palm with Yahoo Calendar, Addressbook and Notepad. Yahoo's tools have more features than Palm Desktop; plus, they can be accessed from any web browser.