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March 27th, 2008

LavaBlast: building on a shoestring, delivering, and earning revenue. We can learn a thing or two.

Thanks to Heri for posting the link to the a series of posts from LavaBlast on how their software for franchise owners was developed.  Here are some of Heri’s comments on what they did…
I like to see once in a while a web company that does things differently. They didn’t take any outside funding, they […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

March 27th, 2008

Photoshop Express the next step in online photo editing or the next step in free software?

There has been a lot of discussion about the new Photoshop Express (this is just a sample from last night):

Adobe Launches Hosted Services With Photoshop Express - GigaOM
Adobe Unveils Webtop Version of Photoshop. Picnik Is Not Scared.
Review: Adobe Photoshop Express | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone
Adobe opens shop on Web-based Photoshop Express […]

By Tris Hussey -- 2 comments

March 26th, 2008

Try ACDSee Photo Editor 5 Beta for free and help shape the next version

I saw Connie Bensen talking about getting a beta issue fixed on Twitter and thought, wait, I love ACDSee’s software, I need to be trying these betas!  I sent my @conniebensen tweet and got the link to ACDSee Photo Editor 5 Beta from her in reply.
I have it downloaded, but haven’t installed it yet.  Now […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

March 4th, 2008

Get your FeedDemon tips straight from Nick Bradbury!

You know by now that I’m a huge fan of FeedDemon.  I slog through 1000s of posts a day using it and probably mark almost as many read with the panic button when I get behind.  Like any good piece of software FeedDemon has a ton of not-so-well-known tricks that power users can take advantage […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

March 3rd, 2008

Canadian companies in the Webware 100

Checking out the list of the Webware 100 Finalist list I noticed several familiar names…
ConceptShareProductivity
CoverItLivePublishing & Photography
Dabble DBProductivity
FlickrPublishing & Photography
FlockBrowsing
MobivoxCommunication
StumbleUponSocial
WordPressPublishing & Photography
Source: All the Webware 100 finalists in one place | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone

Okay I know that Flickr, Flock, StumbleUpon, and WordPress aren’t Canadian per se, but Flickr and SU were […]

By Tris Hussey -- 3 comments

February 19th, 2008

ACDSee Pro2 powerful and easy photo editing and management software

Since Web Community Forum in December I’ve been using, and loving, ACDSee Pro2 to import, manage, and edit my images.  Connie Bensen, ACDSee’ uber community manager got a bunch of us hooked on it in December and she got Lee Hopkins hooked on it as well it appears.
So, why.  Why is this app so […]

By Tris Hussey -- 3 comments