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Visual search has been around for some time. However it so far is not so impressive. zoomii.com, however change that. Zoomii.com allows you to view most books on Amazon as if you were at a book store. They are lined up on book shelfs and placed in categories. Also just like a book store they are sorted by authors last name. You can also search for one book to. Over all this is a great way search for books and to wast time. (Below is over 19,000 Books.)

Adobe is leaping into the business of online tools. One of their first online tools photoshop.com, allows you to simply fix up pictures online. It may not a new concept, but it works pretty well. They also build Buzzword, which is a online word processor. Their newest online product ties in Buzzword, Adobe Connect Now, and of course Acrobat into one online tools set. Acrobat.com is a great simple to use tool kit. This site allows you to write documents (with Buzzword), create PDF’s, share files, and conduct a live online meeting (using Connect Now). All of these tools allow you to share with others.  Best of all as of now they are all free. I would of liked to see the PDF maker to be a little more useful, but worked just fine. All in all I think this is a nice site with good looks.

The world revolves around business.

http://www.details-worktools.com/

G.ho.st is a service which gives you a online virtual computer for free. Now this concept of a online virtual computer is nothing new at all. g.ho.st, which is the web address, (not .com but .st, just so you know), gives you 5 GB of free space which is hosted on Amazon.com’s S3 Web Service. They also offer some applications like the Zoho writer and Youtube channel. The look of and feel seems similar to Vista, odd. It seems their only punch here is they use the Amazon Web Service to keep your data safe.  At this point even though it is only in Alpha, its nothing to write home about, and sure will not take over your computer desktop any time soon.

Windows will be coming soon. At this stage however it probably is OK to buy a new PC. However they are showing off a multi-touch version of Windows 7, worth taking a look at.

Video: Multi-Touch in Windows 7

Today we are launch the beta of latechna.com’s new site. This site is unrelated to technology, but has to do with history. So if you are interested in history, you will want to check out History-IN from latechna.com.

“History-IN is a video site and podcast dedicated to covering historical events in the US and world history. We are hoping that when we launch that we will have a weekly video podcast about an event which  occurred in the past. We will be up very soon. Go to latechna.com/blog to keep posted about our launch.”

Well phones these days don’t often do what we want them to do. Most of us can’t live with out a phone however. Now I’m not say phones a bad and won’t do what you want, but it is the carriers who lock down the phones, making you pay left and right. However with the coming of Android we are seeing “open” become the new word in phones. (Below one of the first Android phones), allows you to add components to it. This means  you  want to  be able to write on your phone using a Word type program then you build it and put it on.

Today we took a look at Bigscreenlive.com. Bigscreenlive is a program that allows you to serf the internet, and navigate the computer easily. It is mostly made for seniors citizens who did not grow up in the computer or internet age. Over all it is a great program and easy to use. However I found the inbox area and the news area to be a little clunky. And I think the price might be  a little high for what it does, $9.95 a month. It is worth trying out for 30 days though. Check out the latechna video below for more info…

Thanks to Webware.com for the hint on bigscreeenlive.

Have you ever wanted to sue someone, something, or even the weather. Well go over to allrise.com, and do just that. You tell what you are suing and why. As soon as you post it, it is off into the communities hands. The community then decides whether they or it is guilty. Although you are not actually suing it or them, it is still fun to play around.