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This is a interesting site. Retrievr, allows you to draw your search. Basically you draw the picture you want and it searches pictures from Flicker from what you drew. Thanks to Tekzilla for finding this site, (look at there video below).

Visual search has been around for some time. The concept is interesting but dose not always work. However I found Viewzi.com. Viewzi seems to work beacuse it gives you different ways to search the web. They have Screenshoot view, weather view, basic photo view, and others. Over all I think it works. And I think it can only get better if they allow others to build upon there platform. Take a look at the video below for our full look.

Video Coming as soon as it uploads…

You probably know a lot about sites that allow you to store and share your files online. We have tested some including SugarSync. However today we are taking a look at Oosah.com. oosah is a site that not only allows you to store up to 2 GB of you videos, photos, and music, but once uploaded to the service it allows you to put them in places including Youtube, Flickr, and more. It is mostly flashed based and pretty responsive. I found it to be one of the simpler storage sites out there. However right now in beta there are a lot of glitches. Plus the folder system could improve. Over all though it is a great product and worth a try. Check out latechna video’s review below for more…

Image via Wikipedia

So I come across a image of Jesse Owens I wanted to use on the web. So I said lets get this image (in the hype of the Olympics and all). So I checked out the price on Gettyimages to see. I was expecting for it to cost. I found out it coast $50.00, for what I wanted to use it for, and I could only use it up to 3 months. Well that was a drag. Well for old pictures like this I could just use sites like Wikipedia to find pictures in the public domain. This one to the right is in public domain. But I still wanted to use the picture I found, and not at the price or time limit. So I jumped on to picapp.com. This site buys the images from places like Gettyimages.com, and allow you to embed them on your blog or website for free. Of course you do have to have a ad with it, a drag but its free. You can also get really resent images to once from that day for example. Take a look below for a samples. (If you see a small image below click on it)

Image details: Jesse Owens served by picapp.com
This image for example below is from today’s hockey game.

Image details: Dallas Stars v Anaheim Ducks - Game Two served by picapp.com

How much it would coast me to buy off of gettyimages…

Today Box.net has partnered up with ShoZu , to provide a online storage place to store there photos and videos. Shozu.com, (if you do not now about them), allows you to upload content from your mobile device to places like Youtube, Facebook, and others.

We have know about a.viary.com for some time. But finally after waiting months I finally received my invite. And I must say it hits the top of the list of photo editing online. Now a.viary.com has quite a few other products to besides Phoenix the photo editor. There are right now 19 products ragging from Computer algorithm-based pattern generator to a Digital content marketplace. It has all of the basic tools of Photoshop with some advanced features tricked in like filtering and shadowing.

The other prorgrm we go to test is the Computer algorithm-based pattern generator, well I don’t know much about this type of program so once I figer it out I will post a blog post on it. We will hofuly have a full write up review and video review very soon. So look for that here at the blog. Photos