Polgara, how does that compare to Photoshop Express?

Also, please stop encouraging people to make their own cheap websites! It'll be Geocities all over again!

::thinks warm thoughts about the animated under construction icon::

Oh no doubt Gimp is the most powerful free software in its class. In fact it is more powerful than a lot of expensive software in its class. It is just a shame that that it is a no compromise user hostile interface. Borderline between an app and a programming language. And not particularly intuitive or straightforward in either aspect. Note doubt after using it for a two or three hundred hours over a reasonably short period of time, you get to the point where you say "this isn't so hard. I don't know what everyone is bitching about." But I suspect you need a few hundred hours, at least two hours a day, no more than one day skipped between session, to get to that point. And probably better off without even as much time as that to forget stuff - 3 or more hours on it a day, with no more than one day off a week.

Props to them for providing much of (or more than) Photoshop's functionality for free (though it still opens my NEF files as thumbnails...) but why hide it? Usability nightmare.

Polgara, how does that compare to Photoshop Express?

No idea, never used it. When I picked pixlr.com, I was just looking for something free, online, and with a very small learning curve for the Luddites I usually have to teach.

Also, please stop encouraging people to make their own cheap websites! It'll be Geocities all over again!

LOL! No worries, my method is always, "Use Wordpress. Use themes already created by other people." These are usually museum people with no experience and no budget.

For anyone who wants to build a website but has zero experience (hello!), I love love LOVE Weebly. I paid for the pro upgrade so I didn't have to use weebly in the IRL, but it works great at the normal level too. I used it to build ND's website and the 2012 Buffista F2F website.

I am dispirited about to do apps again. I thought I had found a replacement in toodleTasks, but dig this:

• no background syncing--you have to start up the app on each device
• reminders are SMS or email, not popups or status tray
• no widgets to display task lists

I got all in a tizzy because they seemed to have decent recurring task functionality. I'll look at the other apps that run on top of the toodledo framework to see if they do, but this is exhausting. Astrid was the first to do application I tried. I didn't feel like I was asking for the world, but how come it's so hard to match?

Fuck you, Yahoo. This is so clearly not in the interests of the users.

Oh, and even after I told the toodleTask people they spelt Blackberry wrong on the front page of their website, they told me I was looking at the wrong page--instead of just going and looking at the front page of their fucking website. That's just going to chafe.

What the fuck, Opera??? At least I verified I wasn't the crazy one:

"Although most users don't use bookmarks, some long-term users told us that they have many, many bookmarks in deep folder structures," wrote Lawson. "We love our long-term users, so we've worked with developer Stuart Langridge to develop a Bookmarks Manager Extension that brings some basic bookmarks functionality to Opera 15 for those that want it."

Excuse me while I put my previous browsing experience back. Jesus.

Whew. Back to Opera 12. I'm pretty agog at the idea of removing something like bookmarks, but if people don't use them...how do they get back to all the places they visit regularly? Opera's existing Speed Dial isn't an equivalent (it asked me if I really wanted to import 90 art bookmarks--no, I guess not) and neither is the new Stash.

Anyway. Do any of you Evernote users have a separate recipe management app? If so, what the features you need it for?

I haven't been back to check on Evernote extensions in a while. I should do that...

I don't use book marks except the ones I keep at work for some things that have complicated addresses. I just type in the URL! Buffistas Facebook tumblr twitter and livejournal. I used to keep fanfic bookmarked at delicious, but I stopped. Organizing bookmarks was very stressful, and since I remember things visually, every time I added one, I couldn't find my old ones

I do, but I haven't been using it recently and I'm not sure I still need it. I got it mainly for three features: recipe scaling, calculating nutritional info, and easy syncing with iOS devices. I have this fantasy that I will type all my oft used recipes that I only have in hard copy into some recipe mgmt program and have them all available to me on my phone, but that is a mere dream at this point, not least because I'm not sure my current software is really The One for that.