PicMonkey & Vine
by Rita Nguyen
Recently, I decided to do my semi-regular sweep for tech tools I need in my life. Because tech moves so quickly, I always try to do this every couple of weeks so I can stay on top of the industry and also just try cool shit.
This time around, I found PicMonkey, my new favourite Chrome Extension. After a 2 second installation, I can now pick any picture on any website and then edit and post the image within minutes. Amaze-balls!
Yesterday Twitter was all abuzz with Vine so of course I was eager to test it out. After a quick download and sign up (nicely done guys!), I started my first video. After about two seconds I could see the potential but also the vast amount of work it would require for most mini-videos. I’ve never been much of a YouTube junkie so finding a social community that was making shorter videos that mostly look like animated gifs really didn’t thrill me. I will keep looking at it over the next couple of days but suspect this one won’t be on rotation for me.
Canadian geek in Myanmar 