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Back on December 21st, 2007 I posted a tool that would allow parents to ‘manage’ their children’s access to various types of sites on the internet.  A few weeks ago, I received a comment from – well, here’s the comment:

“Hi, my name is Bartel Scheers and I’m Glubble’s Editor in Chief.

I thought it would be nice to give you a small update about Glubble. We’re very proud to announce that we have released Glubble Family Edition (or Glubble 1.0) now for public download at glubble.com.

Perhaps you’ll find some time to give it a try and find for yourself why we think it is fair to say that we’ve published an entirely new product compared to our Beta-version.

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Introducing Smart Scissors!

I posted a awesome tool on Tool Time Friday, back in November ‘07 called FotoFlexer.

Well, here’s a new tool from FotoFlexer that makes it easy to create a cutout from your photo. Just click a few times around the area you want to cutout and Smart Scissors will do the rest! It’s just as easy as one, two three.

Just login and get started. Here you go !

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SlideRocket is a web application that provides everything you need to design professional quality presentations, manage and share libraries of slides and assets, and to deliver presentations in person or remotely over the web.

SlideRocket promises to be an online version of Powerpoint. The twist is, rather than go for a subset of the desktop applications features, these guys think they can go beyond them …
Unfortunately you can’t get to play with it but the demo results look stunning. (To view the demo you need to have to install the Adobe Flash Player 9 – and in order to do that you need to close Firefox.)

All these applications have the big advantage that, at least in theory, they are there on demand as and when you need them with no installation or upgrade hassles necessary. That in itself could be sufficient draw.

While big corporates might shy away from bootstrapped startups offerings, those backed by Google and Adobe are sure to get the corporate vote. For home and casual users there will be no such worries. This could be an interesting time.

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Buzzword is an online word processor but far more funky than Googles offering.

Buzzword, the first real word processor for the web. Buzzword makes it easy for you to create a document from any computer on the Web, share it with colleagues, and review and revise it as a team.Buzzword works on any PC or Macintosh that is connected to the Internet and running Adobe’s Flash Player.

Buzzword runs from Virtual Ubiquity’s secure servers, and your documents are stored there, so they are … well, ubiquitous: always available on the Web. And always securely private, except from the people you invite to share them.

Just click the link, sign in – it’s easy, just type in your name, give a valid email address, type in your password and ‘presto’, you’re there. They even give you a preview of what’s what – you won’t believe it – honest.

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While it’s still a teaser at the moment, John Nack (senior product manager for Photoshop) has confirmed the development of Photoshop Express. It’s a free online photo editor that’s not meant to replace Adobe’s current offerings, but “make Adobe imaging technology immediately accessible to large numbers of people.” And from the screenshot here you can tell it’s not even a dumbed- down Photoshop, but an entirely new product (that reminds us of something from the new iLIfe).

The announcement follows Adobe’s implementation of Premiere Express, their online video editor, and it signifies a fairly progressive market plan by Adobe. In a content creation culture where every teen is a video editor, the democratization of powerful multimedia tools online allows Adobe to reach out to this new generation without abandoning their industry professional bread and butter.

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Long about a Saturday night, A rub dub, just relaxing in the tub, thinking everything was alright.”

Splashup is an online image editing package.

Splashup, formerly Fauxto, is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With all the features professionals use and novices want, it’s easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once. Splashup runs in all browsers, integrates seamlessly with top photosharing sites, and even has its own file format so you can save your work in progress.

With an online Photoshop (be sure to visit next week, same time, same channel) on the way and basic third party editing being placed into Flickr, the online photo editing space is hotting up.

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