Yowazzup: A Directory of Happening Things

Adobe launches Adobe Photoshop Express on Thursday. Photoshop Express is currently in beta version is an online version of Adobe’s popular graphic-editing software, Adobe Photoshop.

Great news! Registered users will get free 2GB of storage to store their photos.

Applying sketch effect on Adobe Photoshop Express

Once you sign up, you get a “personal sharing URL,” such as http://yowazzup.photoshop.com. You can only edit files that are uploaded to your account.

So what are the functions of Photoshop Express do? You can:

• Crop & rotate the photo
• Autocorrect the photo
• Change the exposure of the photo
• Apply Red-eye removal
• Retouch the photo
• Change the saturation
• Change the white balance
• Sharpen
• Highlight
• Apply special effects such as sketch, tint, pop colors, hue, black & white and distort

Photoshop Express can also be integrated into your Facebook, Photobucket and Picasa accounts.

The best part is you can display the photos you have edited on the Gallery and let the world to see! You can display your photos in 3D or in grid or like an alien pop circle. Pretty cool, huh?

Though the beta is U.S.-based, I managed to register and use it without any problems. Once awhile, I do experience a short lag but nothing longer than 10 seconds.

So, what do you think of Adobe Photoshop Express?

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On October 10, 2007, fans of Radiohead can choose to pay as little as 45 pence, about $1 USD, the credit card handling fees for Radiohead’s latest album, “In Rainbows”. Fans can choose to pay whatever price they feel like paying.

While this may cause a further shakeup of the music industry because other big artists may now demand better contract deals under threat of leaving and distributing music themselves like Radiohead. Soon, we may hear questions like why do we need Record Label, anyway? We can either create our own Record Label or sell it like Radiohead!

You can download “In Rainbows” album from October 10, 2007 onwards.

(Via ZeroPaid)

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Great news! This coming Sunday (9th September 2007), Coffee Bean Malaysia will be celebrating its 10th Anniversary Birthday Bash, thus, it’s inviting you to the exciting party where you can buy The Original Ice Blended at only MYR 2.00* (a mere USD$0.57!) The usual price is MYR 10.80 (approx. USD$3.08). There will also be many exciting prizes to be won! The place to be is KL Plaza, 11am - 3pm.

* - Limited to Two(2) Ice Blended® per customer

(Via All About Coffee)

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Love to sing? Love karaoke? Love people hear you sing? Now you can sing karaoke online for free at Karaokeplay.com.

All you need is a microphone plug into your PC and sing right away! Karaokeplay.com will then record your voice and other visitors can listen, rate your songs and comment.

If you think you got what it takes, maybe you’ll get good ratings and feel confident enough to share your online singing with your friends wherever they are!

Visit Karaokeplay.com

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As reported by Google Blogoscoped, Google Personalized Homepage will be rebranded as iGoogle and will let you build your own gadgets using wizards. The gadgets are very simple and are more like containers for things that matter to you: photos, videos, events.

“Once the gadget is created, you can invite other people to view & use the gadget, and make it publicly available for other people to view & use it.” So whatever you choose to add to a gadget will be visible to the people you invited.

The wizard helps you set up these gadgets:

1. Framed Photo - add up to 7 photos (by rotation)
2. GoogleGram - add up to 7 greeting messages
3. Daily Me - add what you’re doing or what’s in your mind
4. Free Form - add image and text freely
5. YouTube Channel - add up to 10 videos from YouTube
6. Personal List - publish your own top ten, or to-do list
7. Countdown - share a countdown to your birthday party or special event

Other than the Gadget Maker, you can personalize your iGoogle with your favorite comic strips (i.e. Garfield, Dilbert), Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Calendars, News, Games, Dictionaries, Wikipedia and many hundreds more.

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iwantsandy.com claims it is a free email assistant that get you organized and stay productive by adding smarts to the email you’re already sending.

Some of its features include:

• Turn your “email to self” into an actual to-do — and get it done.
• Maintain an up-to-date address book without even trying.
• Get appointments into your calendar without wasting time cutting and pasting.
• Automatically gather the web addresses friends email to you.

The service will only begin in April. You can sign up at the website to get notified when the service starts.

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It’s a worldwide event! So, grab your free coffee from 10am - 12pm on March 15, 2007 at any Starbucks!

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Once awhile, each of us may be dying to play the old school classic arcade games like Pong, Tetris, Donkey Kong or Pacman. I have found this web site called “Free Classic Games” where you can play the games on the site for free without any registration, downloads or anything - all you need is a browser with flash player and you’re in!

The cool part about these arcade games is though they might be classic, some of these games are created with the blend of modern taste and feel. Games like Mini-Putt 2 and Lightning Break are a golf and pool game respectively but not like the usual ones. In Mini-Putt 2, you have 18 holes to putt and it’s not easy and test your patience.

If you prefer something very fast or you don’t have that much patience, “4 Second Frenzy” is one of the coolest-ever game and as the game title, you only have 4 seconds to finish up each game in order to stay alive. It was mentioned this game was created by 26 artists and programmers! It’s my personal favorite and here it is “4 Second Frenzy“.

Play Free Classic Games

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The Lord of the Rings OnlineTM: Shadows of AngmarTM, the highly anticipated massively multiplayer online game, is currently scheduled to launch on April 24, 2007. Even though it will be launched in April, the game is now opened for beta. Sign up now and you can be playing this new MMORPG as a beta tester!

Visit The Lord of the Rings Online Official Website

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These days, we have many free web-based e-mail providers and more and more are coming. But, what features are the ones the users really want? Something like Microsoft Exchange? Or something simple to use? More space?

As the major providers of web-based e-mails continue to increase the size and functions of the e-mail programs they have, certain company is developing a very cool e-mail - e-mail that self-destruct, non-printable, recallable and changable/editable. The purpose of these functions is to protect the privacy of the sender so that e-mails cannot be forwarded to the wrong party. Besides the security and privacy features, it lets the users to masquerade their e-mail address as well. The e-mail provider is BigString. The free account also comes with 1GB storage, 25MB large message transfer, ability to track when a recipient opens his/her e-mail, etc.

BigString also offers Premium and Business accounts with a small monthly fee. These accounts offer 30 minutes video e-mail and it lets you use your own domain name.

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