Tech Update! Cool Apps & Services

 Meehive.com is your personal newspaper! Sign up and create a newspaper unique to your interests, Meehive will search through thousands of news sources and blogs for articles about your topics of interest and put them in a central location. You can share articles with others, see what friends read, and even use your iPhone to get MeeHive on-the-go. It’s your news, your way.

 Etherpad.com is a real-time collaborative document platform allowing you and your colleagues to edit a document together and see each others changes instantly! When you create a pad for editing it gives you a custom URL, there is no emailing or delay between users, you call can work on the same URL at once. Etherpad updates character level changes in the document every half-second (compared to every 15 in Google Docs), making it one of the fastest collaborative editors available.

 
LTL Prints.com allows you to create custom larger than life self-adhesive wall prints from your photos or personal images. Do you need a reusable wall mural of your company’s logo? LTL Prints is definitely the way to go! Prints can be made in standard sizes ranging from one foot to seven feet or you can define your own custom dimensions. Each print is durable and re-usable, it will self-stick to many surfaces and can be easily removed.  

Hulu Labs has put out a new product Hulu Desktop! Hulu Desktop is a lean-back viewing experience for your personal computer. It features a sleek new look that’s optimized for use with standard Windows Media Center remote controls or Apple remote controls, allowing you to navigate Hulu’s entire library with just six buttons. It is a downloadable application that can run on both Windows and Mac platforms.

 Have you ever needed a more high-powered image editor but didn’t have one installed? Pixlr.com brings advanced image manipulation and photo editing tools to your web browser! You can upload an image, make your changes, and save it back to yuor desktop without having to install any software. Pixlr supports layers, custom brushes, filters and many other must-have tools for successful graphic design.