Picmeleo – A Free Online Image Editor
Another interesting find from my daily blog stroll via Google Reader. I found this post from SmashingApps and couldn’t resist highlighting it on my site – Picmeleo, a new free online image editor. Coincidentally I had an article planned on free online image editors, so now I can forgo that post. This is the coolest image editor I’ve seen and I’ll be definitely adding it to my site as a permanent feature, I just need to figure out where.
Try It Here and let me know how you like it.
More About Picmeleo
Picmeleo is a free online photo editor that any third-party developers can integrate to their website. They offer the smartest way to let users upload and edit images.
Picmeleo was created in order to provide a better tool for online photo editing. Third-party developers can easily add Picmeleo to their web service and launch the light-weight yet powerful photo editor whenever their users need to to upload or to edit an image. By adding Picmeleo to your web service, you can now engage your users with even richer content. Unlike other photo editors, Picmeleo opens within your site and your users never leave your service.
Custom Tools – Unlike other photo editors, you can customize the tools of Picmeleo any time you want in the online admin interface. Sometimes photo editors can be overwhelming. Picmeleo allows you to pick the tools your users really need. Choose from a growing list of tools including Crop, Scale, Rotate, Auto-fix, Filters and many more.
Multilanguage Support- Picmeleo has built-in multilanguage support and you can easily set the language in the online admin interface. We are still working on different language options at the moment, stay tuned for more.
Picmeleo can be utilized in numerous places. Think of these examples:
- social network
- eCommerce
- photo gallery
The possibilities are endless…
Who This Tool is Good For
- People who need to edit an image quickly without much hassle
- People who are inexperienced with editing photos
- Webmasters who want to enhance the functionality of their websites
- EVERYONE!
AddThis Labs presents the Sharebar
So I’m trying something new. The AddThis Sharebar (located at the bottom of the page). If you have visited my site in the past then you know I’m not really into this kind of trendy website gimics like these. I like to add content and functionality that I feel will add value to my readers.
I’m not interested in building a huge list of Facebook fans, a ton of Twitter followers or an unbelievable amount of RSS readers. I like new visitors from sent to me directly from Google, Yahoo or Bing (MSN). If this site somehow grows into a community, that’s great. But that’s not my ultimate goal.
My only goal for this site is to finally give people a honest answer about how to make a website, with little to no fluff. Just truth.
With that being said. I liked this AddThis Sharebar. Why? It’s unobtrusive and it took me only about 3 minutes to install. So why not try it?
Trust me if I see that it becomes annoying, I’ll delete it just as fast as I added it on.
Now about the bar.
The AddThis Sharebar is a different way of making your content shareable using the AddThis platform. As a persistent utility at the bottom of your pages, the Sharebar keeps your users’ favorite services front and center to help increase sharing.
It’s a handy little bar that has irect links to Facebook, Gmail, Twitter, Tumblr and many more social networking sites to allow users to share your content with their audience. The Sharebar is a AddThis labs project so they is no support for it and they suggest you submit any technical question to their forum.
Add Sharebar to your Site in 3 Minutes
To install Sharebar, copy and paste the following Javascript and DHTML code into your page – it can go anywhere in your page template. An AddThis username is only needed if you want tracking/analytics. You can use your current AddThis username, create a new account, or ignore the username setting.
If you feel this will add value to your site grab one here, then feel free to send me a link to your site if you are using it and or give me a feedback if your like it.
Free High Quality Photos from PicApp
While visiting one of my favorite sites Lost Ball in High Weeds, I learned about a new site that has high quality photos to spruce up your website, called PicApp. I’m always interested in giving my readers access to valuable freebies for website building, so I immediately took a look and was pleasantly surprised. They have some of the best quality photos online, by far and they are all for FREE!
No more “borrowing” images from your favorite blogs. Now you have access to the same great photos they do without the risk of copyright infringement.
From the PicApp website:
Add the best news and stock photos to your blog.
Picapp is all about more opportunities and choices:
Where You– the publisher get access to millions of premium, legal images, updated by the minute and can use them in your posts- for free!
Where You– content owner enjoys this innovative yet monitored distribution channel to reach new users and increase revenue
Where You– advertiser reaches targeted, well segmented audience and access to premium ad inventory
A true Win-Win.
We have over 20 million premium images, editorial and creative, covering any imaginable category—from news, sports, to celebrity, travel fashion and more.
Our content partners include Getty Images, Corbis, Splash News, Pacific Coast News, Newscom, Image Source and more. We support the largest blog platforms: WordPress, Blogger, TypePad and more.
What’s also great about PicApp is that they already have a super cool Wordpress plugin, which allows website owners to easily add photos to their websites or blogs directly from the PicApp database.
Here are a few video videos to get you started with using their service.
How to Use the PicApp Wordpress Plugin
How to Search for Images on the PicApp Website
In addition to the Wordpress Plugin, they also have a PicApp Toolbar which enables you to search for free images from your Firefox browser.
Try them out and let me know what you think! This is a definite add to my recommendations page.
Get a Free Premium Twitter Background
Since entering Keller’s blog design contest at Fresh eVenture, I have been preoccupied with adding content and tutorials to my site. Everyday I sit down to write compelling content about getting started online. I haven’t written this much since college, but I am loving every minute of it!
In between researching content for articles, I still find time to freelance web design and browse my favorite blogs via Google Reader.
Yesterday while visiting one of my favorite icon sites 365 Icon, which has AWESOMELY FREE graphics and icons, I noticed an ad for TwitterBug.
TwitterBug advertised free, high quality Twitter backgrounds, so I was curious to see what exactly “high quality” meant and was pleasantly surprised! They have some of the BEST FREE Twitter backgrounds around. They also offer customization for just $4.99! What a steal! Read more
