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+In the process of writing my last post on Phixr, I discovered that [Flickr has launched a bunch of new stuff][1] (and that my pro account has expired, but that's a whole other story).

The popular photo sharing site has added three new features, guest passes, a new mobile version and the ability to search images by camera model.

First and most welcome is the new guest pass. Flickr has always been my favorite way to share photos, but it's annoying for people that don't already have a Flickr account. 

I don't know about you're family is like but mine has been known to say "the internets" without a trace of irony. Consequently the odds of any of them bothering to open a Flickr account to see my photos is pretty much nil.

The good folks at Flickr have finally addressed what many consider to be the site's main downfall. The solution is a new guest accounts system. 

Beside each of your Flickr sets is a new button that says "Share this set." Add up to fifty email addresses and you're away. Now the family can see your photos without any problems. Guest passes work with secret links so you can send a link yourself or have Flickr batch email it for you using the handy form. 

Flickr has also [updated the mobile version][3] of the site. I was rather disappointed to discover that the new mobile version requires a Yahoo ID to login and further disappointed to note that apparently at some point all of Flickr with require a Yahoo ID. But word has it the new mobile site is much snappier and had better search features.

With the holiday shopping season just around the corner, this last feature with likely be very popular: [Flickr Camera Finder][2]. Camera Finder lets you search for images by camera so you can compare cameras by looking at the results. 

Purists will point out that most images are probably compressed and may not be the best representative of a camera's true capabilities, but I did a bit of searching and actually found a number of high resolution images. Its especially handy for seeing things like the color noise and low light capabilities of your dream camera.

And for the curious, the most popular SLR on Flickr is the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT.

[2]: http://www.flickr.com/cameras/ "Flickr Camera Finder"
[3]: http://m.flickr.com/ "Flickr Mobile"
[1]: http://www.flickr.com/ "Flickr.com"
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+There's about a billion pieces of software out there that will help you fix up those bad holiday photos, but should you really need software to do that?

A new online photo editing site, [Phixr.com doesn't think so][1]. Phixr offers most of the commonly used photo editing tools in an easy-to-use web interface. Phixr let's use adjust brightness and saturation, color, sharpen, remove noise and of course red eye reduction.

There's a number of sites out there that offer some of this functionality, but I haven't seen any that are as simple and intuitive as Phixr.

Phixr also offers integration with Flickr, Photobucket and more. I grabbed a photo out of my Flickr stream and Phixr imported it without any troubles. I was then able to edit it and upload it back to Flickr.

Naturally you can upload an image straight from your hard drive, work with it in Phixr and  export it as a .jpg, .png, .gif and more.

If you happen to have a Livejournal account or use Fotolog, Phixr can upload your images as blog posts, just enter your login information.

If you're a professional photograph Phixr will probably leave you wanting, but if photoshop confuses you and you just want to crop an image, get rid of some red eye and adjust a few colors without getting a computer science degree in the process, Phixr will be a welcome relief.

[1]: http://www.phixr.com/ "Phixr.com"
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+<img alt="Any_key_3" title="Any_key_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/any_key_2.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />A bookstore employee said to me this morning, "no sir, we just provide the wifi, you have to provide the power." Does anyone have a really loud, smoky gasoline-powered generator I could borrow? Nevermind, here's your reboot:

*	[An article on ZDNet][3] yesterday led some people to conclude that Microsoft Office Genuine Advantage would put the Office Suite in reduced functionality mode if the software couldn't be validated. Turns out [that isn't true][4].

*	According to Yahoo News, the California Supreme Court ruled yesterday that web sites that publish inflammatory information written by other parties [cannot be sued for libel][2]. Should be a boon for flame wars everywhere.

*	Nielsen Media Research started [gathering data on the audience for Apple's iPod][5]. It turns out that iPod users spend far more time listening to audio than they do watching TV or movies. 

* And finally, TSIA: "[RIAA toilet paper][6]" [via [BoingBoing][1]]

[6]: http://www.jinx.com/scripts/details.asp?productID=285 "Wipe your ass with the RIAA"
[5]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20061120/tc_zd/194424 "Ipod user habits"
[4]: http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2006/11/21/microsoft-confirms-no-kill-switch-in-office-2007/ "No kill Switch in Office 2207"
[3]: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=111 "ZDNet get's it wrong"
[2]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061121/ap_on_hi_te/internet_libel
[1]: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/11/20/riaa_toilet_paper.html "RIAA toilet paper"
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+Online shopping site [Mpire][1] has [released a new Firefox plugin][2] that lets you compare prices at nearly 200 retailers from any page. Mpire lets you track prices from various retailers across the web and with the new Firefox plugin you can now call up that data from any supported retailer page. The plugin essentially put the MPire site data just a click away from nearly any shopping site.

The MPire plugin includes some nice features for comparison shopping. Similar to [Farecast][4], my favorite airline ticket site, there are predictive graphs indicating whether the price of an item is likely to go up or down based past sales. 

Mpire can also point you to online coupons and other discounts as well as track Ebay auctions.

I'm very impressed with the new plugin. I've used the Mpire site a few times in past, but frankly I forget about it. With the plugin makes it's easier to take advantage of what Mpire offers without having to visit the actual site.

Right now the Plugin is only available for Firefox, but hopefully we'll see something similar for Internet Explorer in the near future.

[found via [TechCrunch][3]]

[1]: http://mpire.com/ "Mpire.com"
[2]: http://www.mpire.com/corporate/plugin.html "Mpire.com Firefox Plugin"
[3]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/21/mpire-offers-power-shopping-plug-in/ "TechCrunch on Mpire.com"
[4]: http://farecast.com/ "Farecast.com"
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+<img alt="Any_key_3" title="Any_key_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/any_key_2.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />Holy turkey's Batman, it's a chicken, er, reboot.


*	There have been a couple of minor security exploits found in Mac OS X this month, but today there's one that much more serious, though in fact it's been around a while. The exploit in question [allows a corrupted .dmg file to cause a kernal panic][1], which could be used to inject malicious code. Apple hasn't addressed the problem publically yet, but if you want to avoid any issues, just [disable Safari's auto-open feature][2] and avoid downloading .dmg files from unknown parties.

*	CBS is reportedly happy with its YouTube experiment. CBS says that viewers are flocking to CBS TV shows after seeing the clips on YouTube. Perhaps this will encourage other companies to drop the lawsuits and embrace the future of video. [via [Mashable][4]]

*	Microsoft Windows will be stumbling out of a bar blindingly drunk later this evening in [celebration of its twenty-first birthday][5].

*	To celebrate the launch of Windows Vista, Microsoft and Deal have partnered up to create a pretty sweet [special edition computer][6]. The new box features, among other things, a one terabyte raid drive and a 30' widescreen flat panel monitor.

*	<b>Rumor:</b> Because everybody loves a good fantasy story, Read/Write Web has an [analysis of the as yet ficticious GoogleOS][7]. "There's no such thing as the GoogleOS in reality - but despite that, it is one of the most talked about Web products."


[1]: http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7375/53/ "ITWire on OS X exploit"
[2]: http://daringfireball.net/2006/11/dmg_kernel_panic "Daring Fireball on the .dmg kernal panic"
[4]: http://mashable.com/2006/11/21/the-youtube-effect-cbs-gets-massive-boost/ "Mashable on CBS"
[5]: http://www.mstechtoday.com/2006/11/20/microsoft-windows-is-21-years-old-today/ "MS Windows turns 21"
[6]: http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2006/11/21/windows-vista-custom-pc-design.aspx "Windows Vista PC"
[7]: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/googleos_what_to_expect.php "The GoogleOS?"
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+[Zemble][1], a new social networking site with group text messaging, launched earlier today. The service is somewhat similar to sites like [Twitter][2] or [3jam][3], but has a cleaner interface and is somewhat easier to use.

The signup process is painless, just pick a username, fill out some basic info, and enter your phone numbers. Zemble then sends you a text message with a confirmation number. Enter that number on the sign up page and you're done.

From there you can create your profile and invite friends. Zemble offers integration with MySpace and Facebook so you can batch email your friends from either social network. You can also import your address book from GMail, Yahoo, MSN or Hotmail. I'm sure you friends will love the spam invites.

Once you have a group of friends set up, the messaging process is pretty straight forward. Say you want to invite everyone in your group to Thanksgiving dinner, just go to the "My Zembles" page and create a new Zemble. 

Once you've given your Zemble a name and description, Zemble.com will send you a text message with address for that Zemble. Then you add that address to your phone contacts, for instance thanksgiving@zemble.com, and whenever you want to send a message to that Zemble group, just send an SMS message to the address and Zemble will forward the message on to your friends.

To respond to a Zemble just sent a message to re@zemble.com and the message creator will get your reply. To reply to everyone that got a message, use the same address but begin your replay with an exclamation point.

Zemble has a nice feature set and if you can convince your friends to join it might be a good way to batch message invites.


[1]: http://www.zemble.com/ "Zemble.com"
[2]: http://twitter.com/ "Twitter.com"
[3]: http://www.3jam.com/ "3Jam"
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