Google Announces E-Book Store to Compete with Amazon

It looks like not only Barnes & Noble is trying to compete with the Kindle and Amazon's E-Book store.  Google announced last Thursday that it will have an ebook market that can be used by "anyone with a web browser".  They did, though, rule out any possibility of a Google-made E-book Reader.

Weekly Time Waster: Music Catch 2

The first Music Catch was fun, but the sequel brings it to a whole new level. The object of Music Catch is to "catch" music notes with you mouse. You have to avoid red notes, they take away your score multiplier. Yellow notes give you a score multiplier and purple notes make your mouse a note "magnet". Well have fun playing Music Catch 2.

Cool Site of the Week 3/23/09: Picnik

Have you ever needed to edit a photo but you're at a friend's house or at some Marriott. Well, probably not, but Picnik is still cool. Picnik is an online photo editting tool that allows you to adjust the color of a photo, resize it, crop it, a whole ton of stuff. (and more if you fork over $25 a year) Once you upload a photo (no need to sign up for anything) you can play around with it a little. Picnik has a nice, calm, easy to use interface with lare buttons that always seem to be right where you look. It has tons of good effects (even for free users) and is good for touching up an old photo or resizing a family portrait. You can save images you edit in a variety of formats (jpeg, gif, tiff, the list goes on). You can also make collages and scrapbooks using Picnik's easy to use editor. There are even more advanced stuff I haven't covered but if you want to check them out go to Picnik.com.

Cool Site of the Week 3/2/09: AstraNOS

AstraNOS is a powerful web os. A web os in a web based operating system. It means you can access your files, data, and desktop just by going to a web site. AstraNOS is basically Windows 98 mixed with a Mac dock. It has many powerful applications, a calculator, a very powerful and rich text editor. You can also add applications, and play a few games, and customize your desktop's look with AstraNOS's sleek and easy to navigate menus. If you are always on the go, or just like the idea of accessing your files from anywhere, I would highly recommend you check this out. You can check it out at astranos.org.