onOne Software’s Essentials 2.1 for iPhoto, $59.95 is a collection of four easy-to-use tools to help you correct color, add depth of field by realistically blurring the background, add creative borders and resize your photos to get a larger print.

onOne Software has brought some of the power of their Photoshop plugins to iPhoto and have included some built-in tutorials.

Apple’s iPhone is now the most popular phone for uploading pictures according to Flickr, the world’s largest gallery of online pictures.

Flickr tracks the number of pictures uploaded by each type of camera phone and the iPhone comes out on top.

Apple has released Aperture 2.1 introducing an open plug-in architecture that makes it easy to use specialized third party imaging software right from within Aperture. Available via software update, Aperture 2.1 includes the Apple-developed plug-in, Dodge & Burn, which adds brush-based tools for dodge (lighten), burn (darken), contrast, saturation, sharpen and blur. Over the coming months, third party software developers will deliver image editing plug-ins for localized editing, filters and effects, noise analysis and reduction, fisheye lens correction and more.

Apple introduces Aperture 2, a major revision of the company’s professional photo editing and management application with pricing set at $199.00 (cutting its price from $299) and $99 to upgrade for existing users. The upgrade brings in a new, sleeker user interface that allows users to flip between Browser and Viewer modes with a single key press and a heads-up display that makes the most of the screen area while still allowing quick access to editing or navigation controls.

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The Eye-Fi Card is a wireless memory card. It automatically uploads pictures from your digital camera to your PC or Mac and to your favorite photo sharing, printing, blogging or social networking site without cables.

Eye-Fi has announced updated Mac support for its Eye-Fi Card, an SD memory card with built-in Wi-Fi capability. The upgrade adds automatic iPhoto import, Safari 3 access to the web-based Eye-Fi Manager, and Leopard compatibility, among other changes. The 2GB Eye-Fi Card is $99.99.

If you need some basic Photoshop type image editing, have no money and little disk space you might want to give Splashup a try. Splashup is a pretty impressive web-based image editor with many of the your usual features like resizing, cropping, and some basic effects like sharpening, blurring, and pixelizing. But there are also some pretty advanced color controls and you an even use layered effects. You can even capture an images from a webcam.

Splashup runs in Flash that should work with any web browser on any operating system. Worked great on my MacBook Pro in Safari (Leopard users may need to update Flash to version 9).

Continue reading Splashup: Photoshop-like Online Editor…

Netflix founder Reed Hastings has joined the Microsoft board of directors, expanding their board to ten. This is an indication of new a cozy relationship between the two companies. So far, no actual business deals have been announced. But a partnership could benefit them both companies in the current marketplace that includes iPods and Apple TVs among other competitors. TiVo and Amazon have joined up a while ago with their on-demand service, Netflix needs help getting into people’s living rooms with a physical set-top box, since Apple is off on a tear. The content owners are the real deal makers in this market I think.

With the release of Creative Suite 3, Adobe will have completed the largest software release in the company’s history. This release also sees the integration of the Adobe and Macromedia brands and products into a tightly integrated suite.

Continue reading Adobe: Creative Suite 3 To Ship April 2007…

I just received this email from the Joost team:

This is just to let you know that we haven’t forgotten your request to try Joost. We’re now speeding up the process of adding testers and we’ll shortly be inviting everyone who has signed up to try Joost.

This includes you, so expect an invite within the next couple of weeks - in the meantime, thanks for bearing with us - we appreciate it.

See you soon on Joost!

The Joost Team

Well I am hoping they keep their promise to add me to the tester pool. I have been anxious to “kick” the tires of this new IPTV solution. If you do not know about Joost check out Joost To Get Content From Viacom