Ok, since whenever I read reviews in magazines I always look for the quick information in bullets, I will also write my reveiws this way. Hopefully it saves you time and me time as well since I am in the middle of a move and just flooded my kitchen taking out a dishwasher! :)
Pros:
Easy to understand interface
Powerful to use options
Easy integrate with other sights such as Facebook, flickr, mugshots, photobucket, etc...
Shows preview of changes before you make them
The button to finally make a change is "execute" which is fun to say as you do it
Free!
Cons:
Not as easy of interface to use compared to other options on the market
Few options compared to other photo editing software
Overall- it seems like a fine piece of freeware and I like that there is no software to download so you can access it from any computer. I would rather use other photo editing software that I have come across though given that I would be using the same computer for most of my computing needs.
Google Docs
Pros:
Free!
Great for comuters that wouldn't have any spreadsheet software or word proccessing software
Wonderful organization of documents... GMAIL users would be right at home
Edit to HTML button creates code for posting the items to the web
Easy to learn
Imports differenty types of files
Exports PDF's and other files
Work from anywhere with out fancy desktop software such as MS Word and excel
Cons:
Limited abilities
Tables and Charts were a pain
Graphics not as nice or as fancy as MS Word and Excel
My overall take... I am very happy that there is free office suite software being developed to give people an option, especially since most computers come with very lame software themselves or we have to shell out $75 or more dollars to get a decent desktop system. I really like the possibilities of online applications such as this and could see in an open source world how users could really take over the great Microsoft at least in personal computing applications.
2 comments:
Matt,
Sorry about your flood. Thank you for the quick and simple review. I like those. Did you try Picnik. I liked that a more than Phixr.
Chrissy
For free software I agree that Google Docs would be a great alternative. The open source world is very exciting and to know there are so many free applications out there instead of spending money on Microsoft or Adobe you could first invest time into exploring the free stuff!
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