by Sebastian Anthony on March 17, 2011 at 01:30 PM

Facebook recently rolled out an update to its commenting system. Now, instead of pressing Comment, you simply press the Enter key to save a comment. More excitingly, however, Facebook silently rolled out another new feature at the same time: you can now edit comments!
If you comment on a friend's status update, link or photo, you can now press the 'X' in the top right corner to edit it. Your ...
by Lee Mathews on February 2, 2011 at 02:30 PM

Looking for a way to expand GIMP's default toolset? Have a look at Gimp Paint Studio, a Creative Commons-licensed set of brushes and tool presets that add a wide range of new artistic options to your painter's toolbox. While GPS itself is a fantastic and functional add-on for GIMP, its creators hope that it also provides a spark to encourage others to experiment with the open source photo app's ...
by Lee Mathews on January 11, 2011 at 10:00 AM

If you haven't tried Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011, it's definitely worth a download. The Inside Windows Live team has published a blog post showing off two features they find particularly cool: Photo Fuse and image compositing, and pixel-level retouching.
A one-time Microsoft Research project, Photo Fuse allows users to makes it easy to combine elements from two similar photos. Got a ...
by Vlad Bobleanta on November 17, 2010 at 01:00 PM

Google has just announced that it has started rolling out mobile editing support for Google Docs. The roll-out will take a few days and when it reaches you, you'll be able to edit documents in Google Docs by simply pointing your mobile browser to docs.google.com and clicking on Edit while viewing the document you wish to make changes to.
This feature will only be accessible for owners of ...
by Lee Mathews on August 27, 2010 at 03:00 PM

A while back, I ran down a list of 7 tweaking apps for Windows 7. One more worth knowing about is AeroTweak, a fully-portable Windows tweaking app which allows you to modify and disable a wide range of features.
AeroTweak lets you painless flip the switch on things like AeroShake, taskbar thumbnails, and low disk space notifications. It also provides one-click disabling of autoruns on all your ...
by Lee Mathews on August 5, 2010 at 12:00 PM

While there aren't really any examples of full-fledged Google Chrome extension apps in the wild yet, there are a few standard Chrome extensions that do some very app-like things. There's ExtensionFM, for example, which I've talked about before, and now there's GooEdit -- which adds basic image editing kung-fu to Chrome.
GooEdit offers a good array of tools. Images can be rotated, flipped, and ...
by Lee Mathews on June 7, 2010 at 04:30 PM

While Google Chrome knows what they are and installs Greasemonkey userscripts the same way it does Chrome extensions, there's not a very good way to manage your scripts once they're installed. As is the case with so many other software annoyances and shortcomings, an enterprising developer has built an add-on that spiffs things up.
Blank Canvas Script Handler is an excellent extension to ...
by Lee Mathews on February 9, 2010 at 01:00 PM

The aptly-named Paint.Net PSD Plugin is one of those pieces of software which pretty much spells it all out right in the name. It's a plugin...for Paint.Net...(wait for it)...which lets you open files saved in Photoshop's PSD format.
Download the zip archive, dump the included PhotoShop.dll file into your Paint.Net FileTypes folder (usually c:\program files\Paint.Net\FileTypes), and you're ...
by Lee Mathews on January 31, 2010 at 11:00 AM

After the Deadline has been mentioned before here on Download Squad. In September of 2009, Automattic (the company behind WordPress) acquired ATD and promptly integrated it into their wildly popular blogging platform.
If you do any writing anywhere on the web and you're using Firefox, you'll be glad to know that the After the Deadline add-on has hit version 1.0 and should be shedding Mozilla's ...
by Chris Gilmer on March 16, 2007 at 02:00 PM

Get ready to glide down the street when you have your Mac documents synced up to your mobile device ready to edit wherever you are. Glide Sync and Glide Mobile are ready and willing to give Mac users access to view and edit files that are stored on your homebound Mac using phones from Blackberry, Nokia, Palm, Motorola, and more. Glide will automatically sync photos, music, videos, documents, ...
by Chris Gilmer on February 19, 2007 at 01:30 PM

Photobucket is set to make an announcement that will allow users of its personal media management service -- which stores and shares images and videos -- a way to utilize flash to edit video's online. The free service is said to be open in beta this month to premium customers, and rolled out to everyone in March. The web based video editor will be timeline based and allow users to mix photos and ...
by Chris Gilmer on July 24, 2006 at 04:00 PM

You're on vacation, you snap some pics of a nice monument and building, and some snaps of your family in front of the monument and building. When you arrive home to download the pics, you notice to your dismay that there are a bunch of people in your picture. Just standing beside your family. What do you do? Get SnapMedia's Tourist Remover, that's what you do! The trick is: you are required to ...
by Jordan Running on April 20, 2006 at 12:25 PM

Cbreak is a tiny
open source app for Windows that makes it easy to remove commercials from TV shows recorded as AVI files. How it works
is this: Cbreak divides the video into segments according to where black frames appear. Then it has two modes: In
automatic mode (or "autonomic," if you want to get fancy) it will toss out any segments shorter than 60
seconds (or some other length of ...