Photoshop Express seems to have finally gone online https://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html An online (web application) version of Photoshop. Of course with only a basic variaty of functions, but still plenty useful.
After registering you get 2GB of space for uploading/editing pictures. Uploaded pictures can either be defined private, or can be public and displayed in a gallery. The only technical requirements are a current browser with flash player 9 installed.
Let me jot this down before I forget it again, I’ve looked this up so often 😉
First we hook up the CON port of the borked device with the AUX port of a working router (the normal Cisco console cable with RJ45 connectors on both ends). Then we go to the router and configure it’s AUX port with these settings:
The router has to have a loopback address and it must be up (duh). Now we have to find out which port we are going to have to telnet to. Do a show line from the enable mode, the output should look something like this:
Tty Typ Tx/Rx A Modem 0 CTY – – * 97 AUX 9600/9600 – inout * 98 VTY – –Our line is number 97, telnet to the loopback address and port 2000+our line. If our loopback had the IP 192.168.100.200 the command would be telnet 192.168.100.200 2097
I stumbled upon http://portableapps.com/ a few days ago, and now I have a whole lot of nice applications on my 1GB USB stick. Besides the applications provided by the website, I also have Skype and Photoshop running on my USB stick. After Playing around with the menu a bit, I found a unofficial mod called Portable Apps Menu Mod R31 which is definitely a must for anyone wanting to customize the menu (nice theme support, ability to hide applications from the menu, categories, …). I few minutes ago I even found a theme site for the mentioned menu mod.
I choose Adobe Photoshop 6.0, since it doesn’t really care where it is started from, and is still fairly “small”. Definitely something I’d suggest for anyone with a licence for that version (should be possible to obtain one cheaply since it is pretty outdated).
Skype was a bit more of a challenge to get running off my USB Stick. I followed these instructions to make a batch file to start skype, and used this tool to convert the .bat to a .exec (since the Portable Apps Menu only looks for .exe files)
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I just found a “loader” for Ultraedit: http://usb.smithtech.us/apps/index.php This is very cool, since I love this editor, and it has always been a pain to only be able to use it at home.
Another good site for portable applications is http://www.portablefreeware.com
After a friend told me about how useful google calendar is (I had heard of it before, just never looked at it), I finally went and registered at google to have a look myself. For a web application the gui is pretty good. What I liked most about it, is that I can easily synchronize the entries in google calendar with my calendars in thunderbird or my cell phone. For my cell phone I use MyPhoneExplorer (already had that installed, I use it to write SMS via a bluetooth connection to my computer). For thunderbird I use to addons. The first is a calendar addon called Lightning since thunderbird has no calendar out-of-the-box. The second is an addon written to sync between google calendar and thunderbird called Provider.
Everything was pretty straight-forward to setup, took me less than half an hour to find information, get everything installed and running smoothly.
Links:
Google Calendar http://www.google.com/calendar/
Provider https://addons.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/addon/4631
Lightning https://addons.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/addon/2313
MyPhoneExplorer http://www.fjsoft.at/de/downloads.php
Just some random lego that I whipped up this week. Wanted to stream a webcam into the internet using a minimum of upstream bandwidth (that’s the reason I stream it to a server with a fast connection, where it is provided to clients). I probably could have used a higher fps oder quality, but I wanted to find a solution that didn’t require any additional software to be installed clientside (and this solution works over proxies).
Client side: grab video output from /dev/video0, put a timestamp in the picture, and shove it to the IP 10.11.12.13 (not really).
Server side : grab the stream from the cam (no options needed since we sent it to the default port 1234) and provide it as mms:// on port 8080 (I choose mms:// since all windows computers have the windows media player)