Anyone good at panoramic cell/tablet pictures? I tried a few times to get my living room, two pieces that I could stitch together as 360 degrees.

Then I noticed Google Photo Sphere in the 4.4 tablet , and walks you through the space, by telling you how to align and where next. It did some weird stuff in the bottom corners, but otherwise I'm pretty impressed with the result.

What cheap to free tools are out there?

I'm sorry but I have nothing useful to add on either of your recent questions ita. I have noticed that most of the TVs I've been shopping for look pretty decent. Almost zero bezel.

I'm trying to resist buying a 4k monitor already. Too soon, I know, but so many pixels!

Anybody use Acorn as a Photoshop replacement? Lifehacker sez:

Mac users who don't want to shell out for a Creative Cloud subscription have some great indie Photoshop alternatives available, and one of the best is on sale for $15 today (normally $50). Acorn can work with PSD files and will handle most light to medium editing tasks you throw at it.

For only $15, I'm thinking of getting it.

Mac App Store link: [link]

I use Pixelmator, and I'm quite happy with it.

Got my replacement Acer Chromebook today and the prong that plugs in to charge it is broken off. Unfortunately, it was not already charge up, on, and running when it arrived like Zen's. ::cries::

and the prong that plugs in to charge it is broken off.

You just really have no luck!!

I know, right? I'm pretty sure I have some kind of charger with a bunch of adapters somewhere in my house, so I can probably get it to work, but i still have to find that before I can see if the device itself works. Frustrating!

I've run into a real puzzle on a network install. WIN 7 pro workstation (call it A) hosts shared accounting program. Accounting database is in directory that has been shared - full read, write, delete, change rights for EVERYONE group.

New workstation also Win 7 (call it B)- same workgroup (program ported from DOS requires use of workgroups not domains) can see existence of directory cannot access that directory, cannot even read contents. error message is that it does not have permissions. Except it can read files in another directory on the same hard drive of the same computer to which read only permission has been given. So workstations B cannot read a directory on Workstation A to which full rights have been given to EVERYONE, but can read a directory on Workstation A to which read only rights have been given to EVERYONE.

Anybody use Acorn as a Photoshop replacement?

Adobe now gives away Photoshop CS2 for Free

Sure it's older, but it has everything I want.

I wonder how well it integrates with Lightroom 5. Well, it won't cost me anything to find out.

Thanks!

eta: Lightroom is awesome! I've read in several places that pro photographers are spending more time in Lightroom and less time in Photoshop these days as Lightroom has added features. But there's still stuff that only Photoshop (or other pixel-editing graphics programs) can do.

eta²: The installation failed with a generic error message. Oh well--I guess it's too old for my Macbook Pro. Maybe I'll install the Windows version on one of my virtual machines--of course, no Lightroom integration this way.