Monday, February 25, 2008

What is RSS?

Do you konw what an RSS aggregator is? If you don't then its ok, at first I didn't know what it was myself, so I decided to do some research on it and what I found a lot of things about it. RSS means Rich Site Summary, you use it to aggregate the stuff that you like, and the stuff that you want. It's better because instead of you going into the web and trying to see what is new, if you suscribe to the website that has your favorite stuff it sends you all the latest stuff to your RSS reader. An RSS reader is in a google account, but you can install it in your own computer. This Web 2.0 tools are very important because it helps us in many ways to many different people. It has helped me as in that I go and chekc my RSS reader and it tells me all the stuff that is new. So all I have to do is go in my RSS reader and check out all the new stuff that has arrived. It tells you how many new things you have. You can suscribe to as many websites as you want, and you can fix them and put them in files so then you can know where they are. I think that this new Web2.0 tools are very useful, not only to any person , but also to iportant people, like the president? I mean anybody can use these tools and have fun with it, or get educational with it.

If a person knows how to work, and how to use an RSS aggregator, he has the power to do a lot of things!! Is like if they had the power of the magic finger, you just click on the RSS button and you have suscribed for that wqebsite!!

The most popular RSS aggregators are:
You can easily see if you can suscribe to that website by making sure that it has the little button on the website. You have to look for little buttons anywhere around the website, if there isn't any then you have to look for any words that either say "suscribe" or something like that. The little buttons that I'm talking about look more like any of these buttons here: ------->>>>>>>

There is a lot of ways that you can go find about the RSS feeds so you can add to your aggregator choice (if you have one), and I'll even give you three ways that you can quickly find
RSS feeds that are of your interest!!:

RSS feeds, aggregators, suscribing

Thursday, February 14, 2008

picnik.com

This new webware called Picnik.com is a new webware that lets you do what ever you want to your pictures. You can change, create, add, and a lot more to your photos. This webware can create many things for online users. It can help you to change any pictures that you want. It helps you to create them better, it helps you to touch-up them. It helps you to put little details that make a very big difference!

The features that impressed me the most is that it helped me to give my picture a softer touch to it. It helped me to give it some better colors in it. I used this thing called Soften, which helps it give it a soft touch. It has a scale for you to use, so you can control it how you want it. I also used this other thing called Sharpen, which makes your picture as sharp as you want it to. I really like this webware, because it helps me to make my pictures how ever I want them look, and turn out.

Picnik.com can improve by giving the premium effects free, for at least one month or so!! It can also help if the webware could get more affects. Like, for example, to make the picture get a different background then its original one. Also they can get better frames, which they can also make the premium ones free for one month. They can get more stuff for the touch-up part. But other than that everything is good about this webware.



These are some photo editors that you can purchase:

Adove Photoshop CS3 Artist Bundle it is only $589.99

ACDSee Photo Editor 4.0 it is only $44.99

Digital Photo Activity Kit (5- user Lab Pack) it is only $199.99

Some reviews that picnik.com has are a lot. So I'll talk about one that Elizabeth West talked about: In her review she talked about how picnik.com is a very good webware that lets her put photos from all over the places, and how it lets her change them as many ways as she wants and can. She also talks about how she was impressed at how easy, fun, and useful picnik.com is to her and other people. She also says how much the webware has offered her and friends. So why don't you go on and try it out for your self!!! This is an example of what picnik.com has done to my pictures. It helped me to soften the look of it. It helped me to put the matte around the picture which i colored it red. It also helped me to make it a little sharpened so you can actually see the texture of the roses. So go on and try it out for your own pictures!!!!!

I give picnik.com a thumbs up. I really enjoyed creating this picture, and having fun with it. You should do the same!!!

Picnik.com, webware, photoshop