The New “Buzz” On The Net

Here is a piece of news for people looking for a good online word processor. Adobe has acquired Virtual Ubiquity’s BuzzWord, a word processing application that is easy-to-use and full of features.

BuzzWord is perfect if you are looking to work with a team. You can grant what role they will have by clicking on the “share” button on the bottom left of the document and entering their email address and role. You can see each other while online and checkout the changes they made.

This online word processing application lets you work with your team in real time. There are three roles that you can assign to other collaborators – co-author, reviewer and reader. The co-author has full editing access while the reviewer can only add comments and the reader, as the name implies can only read the article.

One important feature of this word processor is that, when you take a printout, the page looks just the same as it looks on-screen! Even the popular Google docs sometimes fail to print the page as it looks on your PC screen. The reason is, BuzzWord is built with Adobe Flash and hence can bypass the problem HTML has with the layout of the page. As a result, you can work on your file online and get a hard copy, if needed. BuzzWord also keeps track of different versions of a document so that if needed, you can revert back to any previous version.

The best part of this application is definitely the fact that it is free! It is still in developing stages and Adobe is hoping to bring an offline version pretty soon.

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Make Your Photo Editing an Easy Job With Bling! It

When editing a photo, you must have experienced that changing the background often takes a lot of time. Especially if you are editing a photo for any auction sites like eBay or Amazon, it becomes a headache for any professional. This is also true if you are an online businessman and need to edit your website to include nice and attractive images for the products you sell. The background has to be made attractive as well as it has to be done in minimal time possible. If you are in the business of any kind of photo editing, then you will surely love Bling! It.

Developed by Vertus, this software makes photo editing easier than ever even for novices! All you have to do is to cut the item you are editing, and then just put it in a new background. It is true that you can do it all with any photo editing software but the advantage of Bling! It is that it traces the key edges of the image! You can just use the red delete brush (96 – pixel) and define the porting of the photo you wish to delete (basically all the area outside the key edges). You can see the progress in the right-hand side window, called The Paintway Viewer in real time.

If you think that the delete brush is too big, you can use a smaller Delete Brush or an Exact Delete brush to extract the image from the background. Now you can choose any of the background from the “special effects” tab. The collection is huge; you will surely find something of your liking. If not, you can always create it or import it if you want. You can drop a shadow, sharpen the image (and they won’t look jagged or ragged) or change the resolution if you wish. Your photo is ready to be auctioned off! Highly recommended.

Blender 2.46 – The Power-packed 3D Animator

Blender is an immensely popular cross platform 3D animation creator. The latest version of this software Blender 2.46 has been released on May 17th this year and till date the software has been downloaded almost 158,000 times from Download.com. This information is enough to mark the popularity of Blender. Basically Blender is a 3D animation program released as free open-source software. This is no doubt a powerful weapon for the 3D animation professionals. Some of the features it offers are advanced simulation tools including rigid body, fluid, and soft body dynamics, modifier based modeling tools, powerful character animation tools, node based material and compositing system and Python for embedded scripting. To some extent Blender is as powerful as other advanced 3D software like Softimage|XSI, Cinema 4D, 3D Studio Max, Lightwave and Maya.

Learning the application of blender is easy thanks to various community tutorials and discussion forums available on internet. You can also learn by downloading the software and studying the ready-made Blender models. Such models are easily available on the resource sites like Official Blender Model Repository. There are other useful tools as well like free downloadable BlenderArt Magazine. Each issue of the magazine covers a particular area in 3D development. You can also refer to BlenderNation, the central news site with all the required information, new techniques and features on Blender.

You can use Blender for modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, water simulations, skinning, animating, rendering, particle and other simulations, non-linear editing, compositing, and creating interactive 3D applications. This can be operated with different OS including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and many more.

For some specific type of websites like sites related to kids, a small 3D animation can increase its visual impact several times. So if you own such a website and want to edit your website by adding some animations, Blender can be a good option. It will save your money not only because it is free, but also you can create some animations on your own with the help of online resources along with some basic technical knowledge.

4 Factors To Check Before Buying A Video Editing Software

Google it and you will find numerous video editing software. Be an amateur or a pro – you might be confused about which software to choose from the huge list. The price range is also vast. It can vary anywhere from US$100 to US$2500. There are some factors that mainly determine the type of software you should buy depending on your requirements:

• Fix your budget – decide how much you can spend for the buy. But if you’re a beginner, complicated editing tools like Adobe Premier Pro is not for you right now. Get experienced with less expensive packages like Roxio or Pinnacle Studio Plus.

• Bundle or No-bundle - Check whether if you are getting bundle of software with the video editing package. You can always go for products like Sony Vegas. This is a complete creation package. If you can manage one such deal, there is nothing better than this as these packages are not very common. If you decide to buy the software separately, it will cost you hundreds of dollars extra.

• Compatibility - Check whether the package supports all the formats you want to export and import. Suppose you want to import RealMedia videos, make sure that your video packages support the import. While exporting, also ensure your package support the formats. Suppose you want to finish a video in Windows Media file. So make sure, your software package supports the format.

• Advance Features - Decide upon the type of special effects you want. If you want more, you need to pay more – this is the simple rule. Less expensive software can provide you with the in built special effects without any scope of customization. But with the expensive software, you can have customization and flexibility of special effects. So if you are professional Roxio is not for you. Adobe Premier is the best option for you.

There are several types of video editing software with several features. Why pay extra for the features that you don’t need? Pay for as much as you can utilize. But at the same time, do not compromise any feature that you really need to maintain a quality video for the money matter.

Who Pays For Your YouTube Videos – Have You Ever Thought?

I was just surfing Internet, when this interesting article caught my eyes. It was on Adobe Flash player. Have you ever wondered how much Adobe gets paid by Google (the owner of YouTube) for using its Flash multimedia software? If you are thinking in billions, you are thinking wrong! Actually, neither Google nor any site that uses Flash to stream a video pays anything to Adobe! Though Flash player is the most widely available software in the world, it generates $0 for Adobe in terms of revenue for playing these videos.

Now it looks like Adobe is in a great mood. They are going to eliminate the fees that phone giants like Nokia, Samsung and Motorola pay for installing Flash in their phone. That means by 2009 billion phones will be using Flash but without paying one single dollar to Adobe!

Well, it must have made you think that those running Adobe are either great philanthropists or poor businessmen. Actually, it is neither of the two. The main money that Adobe makes from Flash is by selling them to programmers and graphic designers who create the program that you view through Flash player! Makes great sense, doesn’t it? People are hooked to online videos and related stuffs and so the companies looking for online consumers will definitely want one to be made for them. Now when they ask the designers and programmers to make them one, they will have to buy Adobe’s multimedia production and editing tools such as Flash, Acrobat, Photoshop and Illustrator, to create those videos!

No wonder this excellent strategy of Adobe saw a 20% annual growth rate since 2002 and turned $3.2 billion dollars in sales last year. The share price of Adobe in that period rose four times higher than Microsoft, its biggest rival.

Audacity - Not At All Audacious

Yesterday while browsing for audio editing software, I happened to see that Audacity, the digital audio editor application is the 9th most popular download from SourceForge.net with 40 millions downloads, as of 30th May 2008. Audacity is a open source software for recording and editing sounds. You can run the application on Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. This is a free software licensed under GNU GPLv2. but it may update to GPLv3 after it 1.4.0 version. The latest stable version of audacity was 1.2.6, which was released on 15th November in the year 2006. Audacity version 1.3.5 (beta) has been released already but the work is still in progress. It has not yet turned up with complete documentation or translations into foreign languages. The version is more for advanced users rather than the beginners.

Audacity is a user-friendly software. You can edit the audio part with only cut, copy and paste options with unlimited undo options. You can mix multi tracks here with the software with wide storage of digital effects and plug-ins. The software offers the facility of amplitude envelope editing and noise removal. You can also change the pitch of the audio. I have experienced that this software makes necessary adjustment to the audio speed to synchronize with the video. I could even convert cassette tapes or records into digital tracks with the help of it.

Overall. It’s a good software to check out if you are into audio editing. Do post your comments here if you have already used it.

Facebook Unlinked Google Friend Connect

Recently when Google Friend Connect was launched, Google declared that the application will use Facebook's API to pull Facebook user information. But yesterday Facebook banned Google Friend Connect from using their API stating that this breaches the User Privacy and thus is a violation of Facebook's TOC.

Chris Kelly, Chief Privacy Officer of Facebook, said the issue that is violating their TOC is that after giving permission, its users can not revoke it from the Facebook.com interfce. Also Facebook has no control over the third-party websites where the infomation will be displayed because Google acts as the middletier between them.

David Glazer, Google's Director of Enginnering came up with the counter-agumment that they have an option so that users can "Unlink" a particular social network from the site. Glazer also stated that Facebook's API doesn't have the feature to let Facebook know on exactly which site the user data has been posted. He insisted that Google puts high regards for user privacy.

Let's hope that Google and Facebook will sort the issue soon to make internet more social though as of now it seems unlikely (specially with Facebook Connect around)! The only silver-lining is that both the companies have officially stated that they are keen to sort the things out. While Facebook has shown its willingness to work with Friend Connect provided the privacy factor is well taken care of, Google has also stated that they are in "constant contact" with Facebook regarding this issue.

Don't forget to check back here later for more updates on this drama between Google and Facebook.