March 10, 2006

All the right clicks

Need a decent image editor with some basic abilities (crop, rotate and resize) on a moment's notice? Head over to Pixoh. You can upload a photo, give it a quick tweak and save it again. They also support a nice Flickr tie-in.

Or, go in search of some professional looking and FREE icons (for personal use) and you'll find yourself knee-deep in the evil side of the Web. Unless you go here.

pR0n goes wrong again as personal information makes its way from iBill to the Internet. Apparently, the online payment service's records are being bought and sold on the black market. So if you've been hitting the NSFW sites, you might want to go check your credit card bill a bit more carefully.

And while you're trying to track down that private information, take some time to contemplate your home for 8 hours a day -- the cubicle. Where did it come from? Why won't it go away? And what soulless creature brought forth such a beast to corporate America? Find out in this Money article.

Check out Origami and videos you shouldn't miss after the break.

It's Week 3 of Microsoft's plugging Origami and we finally find out what it is ... (drum roll here) ... an Ultra-Mobile PC. It's smaller than a tablet and bigger than a PDA. So far, response online has been lukewarm at best. The Origami seems to be straight out of the late '90s and the fanboy support just isn't there. Plus, why would you name something Origami if it doesn't fold?

In a display of technology used for the good of mankind, Will Wright showed off Spore, a new creation from the mind that brought us SimCity. The video takes about 35 minutes to go through, but it highlights a world where the user controls life and evolution through just about anything you can imagine.

Video week continues with a flashback to one of TV's more spectacularly bad holiday specials. If you don't remember the Star Wars take on the winter break, you need to go take a gander. And then tell The Hive: What do you get a Wookie for Christmas?

For good retro TV, there's this recently rediscovered footage of a Monty Python interview from 1975. KERA-TV in Dallas was the first PBS station to bring the import into American homes. There's only about 14 minutes of this interview, but for die-hard fans it's a little bonus to your week.

For something a bit more modern, iTunes offers The Colbert Report and The Daily Show for download using it's new multi-pass service (basically a discount if you pre-pay for multiple downloads).

And if that's not enough pixalated goodness for you, check out the live-action Simpsons recreation. Yep, some people do have a lot of time on their hands.

Major video games released:
Pokemon Trozei [DS]
Burnout Revenge [X360]
Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai [PSP]
Pursuit Force [PSP]
Shadow Hearts: From the New World [PS2]
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter [X360|Xbox]
Far East of Eden II: Manji Maru [DS]
Scurge: Hive [DS]

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