Online Image Editor

nexImage is an online editing/processing software. It’s an ajax based software and you dont need any plugin. It works in Firefox, IE, Safari and even Opera!

Some of the features include:

• The basic image modification features like: Crop, Resize, Rotate
• It has lots of filters like Blur, Sharpen, Swirl
• It’s got something a lot of image apps dont have: Layers, very useful.
• You can save files in many different formats like JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, BMP, PCX. You can save files to your local drive.
• You can also open images on your drive or from a remote server.

Some of its other features which the website boasts (and I haven’t had time to test) are:

• free authorisation assignment of functions and tools
• automated operations sequence via freely definable actions (macros)
• simple implementation in existing CMS and MAM systems
• batch processing in entire folders

It’s got a licensing scheme for using the more advanced features.

Also check out pixoh. It’s a basic editor (crop, resize, rotate)

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This time its eyespot

Michael Robertson launches yet another ajax product called eyespot. Eyespot is a web-based video editing software. You can mix multiple videos, add audio etc. You can email your video via MMS to your eyespot account and even email audio. You can also upload video and audio from your own computer. Pretty neat.

They have a very useful upload indicator, which gives your real-time status on the upload. Something which is very useful, I always hang in limbo when I'm uploading something…"will it or won't it?"

While Eyespot does do something useful, I wonder if such services will be adapted by YouTube, Google Videos. It would make a perfect companion for such a service. YouTube and MotionBox currently have basic editing facilities though, but eyebox+YouTube would be perfect. Although I would like to know, how often this service would be used (apart from the novelty factor). If they can add some fancy transitions/effects and features like that, it would be a really amazing tool. I guess only time will tell.

If you haven't registered you can see a video demo of eyespot here.

Tags: AJAX, ajaxLaunch, eyespot, Video Editing

AJAX Resources for Beginners

Here is an updated version of the post – http://rushi.vishavadia.com/blog/2006/04/04/beginning-ajax/. Below is an older version:

Like many people out there, I'm just getting to know the technologies AJAX's hood. For people who don't know about AJAX, Wikipedia gives good info. Ajax in one line is a technology by which you can send and receive data without the page being reloaded, so it looks more 'dynamic'. I guess this could be the dummy way of explaining it.

I wanted to know more about AJAX and learn how to code with AJAX. Just the basic stuff. This is what I found:

Getting Started with AJAX – Author Aaron Gustafson takes you through writing a basic AJAX application (An address book). Lots of code there.

Mastering AJAX – This is a pretty good tutorial which gives you the nitty gritty basics, talks about cross browser compatibility which is really important with XmlHTTPRequest object in IE (stupid MSFT :-p) What I like about this tutorial is that it explains info in a very easy to understand manner and it also says why you need it. (Part 1 (introduction) of the tutorial is here)

Using AJAX with PHP and mySQL – Being a PHP Developer myself, this tutorial is really well written and very complete. Step by step instructions on how to go about working with the XMLHttpRequest object too.

XAJAX – Xajax is an open source PHP Library for building ajax based applications. xajax is very easy to use and damn powerful, allowing you to use php where you wouldnt unneccesarily use JavaScript. They have a very good tutorial here called Learn Xajax in 10 Minutes.

Another good tutorial by John Wiseman on Creating a mySQL connection with PHP and Ajax.(If the code seems too small copy and paste it intoyour favorite editor, or hit Ctrl + '+' on Firefox to increase font size)

Ajax Loading Indicators & Icons – You can make up your own indicator icons, but the ones provided are really nice and fancy.

Lastly, Max Keisler has a very comprehensive list Ajax tutorials, resources – from beginner to advanced.

Leave a comment and tell me what you think about this blog and these articles :)

Edit: The Ajaxian carries a good list of books on Ajax to learn from. 

NY Times, MS Office and New Services

The New York Times website has undergone a make over. What a big change it is from its previous version. They are moving closer towards Web 2.0. The site looks really good. Anil Dash reviews the Redesign and take a look at the editor's note on the redesign. (Techcrunch does one too) Also reading Anil Dash's blog I see a really nice write up on April Fool's Day.Although its interesting that it was posted on March 31st.

From Amanda Murphy (via Scoble) comes the news of an Office 2007 Preview Website. Check it out, good videos.

A lot of new services were launched or discovered this past week. Some of them were:

• Gifttagging – A website which is a combination of the Amazon Wishlist and del.icio.us (Techcrunch review)
• MyPickList – It’s a service to help people make money by recommending products they like to others. (Techcrunch review)
• Wikio - A news site which looks like to be a combo of Google News, Digg, Technorati and del.icio.us (Again, Techcrunch reviews)
• MotionBox – Online Video Sharing (Review, gotta love Michael Arrington)

Alright, I'm done with linking for now.

Edit: I gotta learn to use the spell checker in this.

Silverorange’s Swat Web Application Toolkit

Earlier today I discovered Silverorange Lab’s SWAT Web application toolkit. This is an open source web application toolkit (PHP5) built by the guys at Silverorange.

Although this is version 0.0.4 I must say this is a really good set of widgets. It has almost every widget from the basic text and integer entry to Calendar entries to Pagination. From the sample code given it seems simple to implement. This is done completely with AJAX AFAIK.

A very handy tool. I will trying to use it in future projects of mine.

Download SWAT