All Entries in the "Review" Category
WordPress, TextMate, and Markdown
For the past few weeks/months, I have been busy with many personal changes. First of all, I have been engaged with my finance and we are so busy to planning our big day next year. Secondly, there are a lot of major changes at work and I was exhausted when I got back to home. [...]
Paint.Net: Photoshop Replacement
If Pixelmator is my choice of Photoshop replacement on Mac OS X, Paint.Net definitely the same choice on the Windows platform. Pixelmator still costs 50 bucks, but Paint.Net is completely free!!! It supports layers, filter (effects), brushes, etc. I know a lot of people suggest The GIMP as the Photoshop alternative. However, The GIMP is [...]
Pixelmator: Photoshop Replacement
Pixelmator just released version 1.4 recently. It was started as a very light weight photo editor tool using OS X Cocoa framework and the power of CoreGraphic. The new version has obvious performance improvements and adding Adobe Photoshop brushes compatibility. You can now not only using brushes but you can import Photoshop brushes as well. [...]
Accessing the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
Amazon Web Service (AWS) is a group of infrastructure service. It contains Elastic Computing (EC2), SimpleDB, Simple Storage Service (S3), CloudFront, Simple Query Service (SQS), and Premium Support. Amazon S3 is a cloud storage service in the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Amazon S3 provides a simple web service [...]
Searching for the Best Netbook Case / Sleeve
[smartads] Generally speaking, netbooks are small size notebook computers with 7″ – 10″ screen size. They cost about US$250 and use low cost operation system such as Linux or Windows XP. Although they are so cheap, most of the netbooks come with a wallet or sleeve. The Acer Aspire One comes with a plastic pouch [...]