Ermin couldn’t put it better in his post. I would just like to sum up the most important topic: use BCC if you are sending a message to people that don’t know each other & delete previous recipients.

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If you need some simple video editing software, you can download VirtualDub. It is free, released under GNU general Public License.

If you look below … the video’s sound was removed with VirtualDub. Fast and easy.

Here is also a web page with some online video editing sites.

While I was searching the data about Adobe’s Flex (“Flex is a highly productive, free open source framework for building and maintaining expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems.” Source) I came across HP’s site – Free Print Projects with HP Print Studio that was build in Flex.

It actually looks cool :) And there are lots of nice features to test.

Let’s see what Adobe’s Photoshop Express brings to us.

The service is currently available only to users from US (according to Membership or Sign-up form), but it works fine if you select US as your country.

After your Photoshop Express ID is created you must verify your email and then you are able to start uploading, organizing, editing, storing (up to 2 GB) and publishing your pictures.

This is how it looks the backend:

First, I wanted to upload photo and see what I can do with it. Upload is easy, and as I can see you can also upload the files from Facebook, Photobucket or Picassa. I am missing a possibility to upload from Flickr! The uploaded photos can be placed into Library or Albums, you can add a caption, rate the picture and of course edit it.

So which editing features are available? In Basics (Crop&Rotate, Auto Correct, Exposure, Red-Eye Removal, Touchup, Saturation), Tuning (White ballance, Highlight, Highlight, Fill Light, Sharpen, Soft Focus) and Effects (PopColor, Hue, Black & White, Tint, Sketch, Disort).

It’s not exactly a set of tools that Photoshop can offer but it’s enough to do some basic editing. If you are advanced user it’s still better to use layers, masks and other fancy features of Photoshop and upload the edited pictures in Photoshop Express.

Today I was testing Virtual Ubiquity’s (owned by Adobe) Flash based Word processor Buzzword.

You can, similar to Google Docs and Microsoft’s Word, edit your text, add images, comments … but it is built in Flex (a free open source framework for building and maintaining rich web applications) and that’s why there are lots of animations making your editing enjoyable. Click on the picture bellow and see the editing screen.

My first thought was that the editor is a bit slow (due to my computer and internet connection) but I really like the user interface. Note the user comments and word count at the bottom.

I unfortunatelly can’t say that I will use it, while it is easier for me to open the word file in Microsoft Word or make a doc in Google Docs (to have all files in one place), but it is nice to know that it exists and that Flash is able to process all this data.

Well, the next Web application on my list is Photoshop Express – the Adobe’s photo editing web site.

I always like to attend these kind of conferences and/or festivals. For me it’s kind of taking a day off, leaving the HP’s web site behind and dive into other peoples work. Gathering ideas all the time, not only the ones that could be implemented in HP but mostly those which could be interesting for my personal adventures in digital space.

Well this time the core themes will be branding, PR, online advertising, virtual worlds and best practices.

Check out the timetable and join us on 15th April 08 in Ljubljana!

btw. Until 31st March 08 the entrance fee is only 15€