Friday, 28 March 2008

Google Code University

This website provides tutorials and sample course content so CS students and educators can learn more about current computing technologies and paradigms. In particular, this content is Creative Commons licensed which makes it easy for CS educators to use in their own classes. The Courses section contains tutorials, lecture slides, and problem sets for a variety of topic areas:

AJAX Programming
Distributed Systems
Web Security
Languages

In the Tools 101 section, you will find a set of introductions to some common tools used in Computer Science such as version control systems and databases.

Read more HERE.

Photoshop Express

This Flash-based app has 17 basic buttons for editing, a thumbnail display of all the different changes you've made, import (from Picasa and Facebook, among others) and 2 GB of album storing space.

No layers here, no fancy pants masking. But for 95% of your photos, it offers pretty much all you need to fix ‘em up, and it does it with style. Whether adjusting exposure, white balance, or hue, touching up blemishes, or distorting your image, Photoshop Express provides an easy slider and thumbnails to give you an instant preview of your image at various settings. Even undo is better than you’d expect.

Go to Photoshop Express HERE.