@elijahmanor ” RT15 online photo editors compared” http://bit.ly/sP3XL. Another category of utility software reaches out from the cloud.
These online editors provide an alternative to workstation photo editors such as open-source Gimp.
Photo and image editors are great for creating graphics for documents and web sites.
Carbonite Backup Service has been around for a few years and is an easy-to-use backup solution for personal computers. In Windows, little orange and green markers appear on every file and folder to show you when a file has been backed up.
Backup of large files like Outlook .pst file and database files is enhanced by updating only the portion of the file that has changed. With a DSL connection, an initial upload of files took 2-3 days for around 15 gigabytes. Download speeds should be much greater if and when data recovery is needed. An simple green Carbonite icon in the lower, right icon tray indicates that the backup is complete. As I create new word processing and text files, the files are quickly backed up. If you delete a file on your hard disk, Carbonite will keep the file for 30 days and then remove it from your backup.
With the life expectancy of a hard disk drive only being a few years and some drives failing early, your chances for a hard disk drive failure ae significant. Carbonite provides convenient, comprehensive backups to a safe, off-premise location at an attractive price.
GIMP is a free graphics editor / image manipulator for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux. GIMP enables creating, cropping and resizing of graphics and much more. GIMP will easily translate between various graphics formats. GIMP is an open source product with a large community of users and plug-in developers. The interface for GIMP is not as intuitive as some but tutorials and help information are easily searched and located. More information and downloads are available at: http://www.gimp.org.
Jing is an excellent free software utility from TechSmith. Snap a picture or make a quick video of anything on your computer screen…then share it instantly as a web link to screencast.com. Jing is free, easy to learn, and helpful!
Images can be pasted from the clipboard or made accessible as a web link. Image annotation options include arrows and highlighting. The videos include computer mouse movement and sound as recorded through your microphone or headset. The video feature is very helpful for creating a brief tutorial on the fly and making it available as a web link that you can send in an email.
Jing provides the most popular features of the popular SnagIt and Camtasia products at no cost. User account registration is required.