Welcome to another Web Wednesday! These are some of my weekly web finds for you…
Free Photo Editing Software:
No Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro or other similar expensive graphic programmes? Here are some options for you…
- Paint.net - A powerful editing software that’s free. It’s for Windows only.
- Gimp for Mac OS X - Comes highly recommended by some photographers I know.
- Picnik.com - Web-based photo editor that’s really cool, with plenty of fun features. It has a free and pro version.
Photo Editing Tutorials:
How to improve some of your photos…
- How to retouch eyes with Gimp - Basic concepts can also be used with editing software like Photoshop, etc.
- Beautify a Face - Never actually tried this, but there are definitely some interesting tips there.
Other Tools:
Misc Stuff…
- Instapaper - Great for bookmarking sites and pages to save for later reading/blogging. It’s just a quick click!
- Jott - This one’s recommended by Brian. It’s service that you can use to call-in messages to yourself via phone and get these messages transcribed as text automatically. They can be used as email reminders, blog posts, To Do lists, etc.
And now, for the result of this poll that asks the question: What’s Your Favourite Tool to Promote Your Blog?
Well, it looks like the clear favourite is StumbleUpon (with 30% votes). Followed by “Word of Mouth” (20%), then Digg (10%). Twitter, Facebook, and del.icio.us (added by voter) all got 5% each. There’s no one using MySpace amongst the voters. And, 25% say that they don’t really promote their blogs. Really interesting.
Shows that StumbleUpon is really a good way to spread some web love. What do you think?
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Kari 02.07.08 at 12:11 am
I was playing on Stumbleupon for a good two hours yesterday. I think I’m addicted now! You always have such great suggestions for us - thank you!
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Shai Coggins reply on February 11th, 2008:
LOL, Kari. Well… at least you’re loving it.
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Alfa 02.07.08 at 5:25 am
StumbleUpon, BlogCatalog and WordTracker’s keyword tool do it for me.
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Shai Coggins reply on February 11th, 2008:
Hi Alfa. Curious how you use BlogCatalog and WordTracker as ways to promote your blog.
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Andrey 02.07.08 at 4:37 pm
These Free Photo Editing Software will be useful for my younger brother! He is interested in it!
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Shai Coggins reply on February 11th, 2008:
That’s great, Andrey!
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Azrael 02.07.08 at 8:57 pm
Picnik.com is the best!!!!
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Shai Coggins reply on February 11th, 2008:
Hi, Azrael. Yes, I’m a big fan too.
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Nenette 02.08.08 at 12:49 am
SU worked it’s magic for me yesterday. I decided to submit my post “How I Burn Fat in 4 Minutes” in the morning, and by this morning, I had over 2700 new uniques! Crazy!!!
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Shai Coggins reply on February 11th, 2008:
Wow. That’s incredible, Nenette! Hopefully, it can create more visits, regular readers, etc from there. Great job!
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