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In the past, creating flash websites or Flash greeting cards meant you had to be an advanced technoguy and use programs such as Adobe’s Flash, but Wix has a better option for the more simple minded and cheaper people. Using Flash themselves, Wix allows users to seamlessly drag photos and videos across the page, add effects and backgrounds to create your own world. Then you can easily embed your flash greetings or websites into your favorite social network or your website. My computer’s not fast at all and yet this website allows me to move fast in creating something special. As I have not yet finished my website (a project on Global Warming) here is an example of what you can do with these tools that Wix can give you. Right now, the website just slipped into private beta and I can see many bugs that they will have to iron out, so it may be quite a while before the site goes public. What can you do to ensure that you will get access at some point in the beta stage or at least be notified when it goes public? Sign Up Now!

(EDITORS NOTE : As I see more flash startups in the future, I have created a Flash Category.)

That’s what APC says might happen in one of their recent articles. The Mobile World Congress expo, a convention where all companies in  the phone business show off their new goodies, is presenting again on February 11th in Barcelona. Has Google bought a stand? Yes. Not one, but two. I wonder what the second stand is for…

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Hey guys, Sorry about the two week break, but I had some work to get done. Now the holiday brake is coming and I’ll have more time to post. www.spokeo.com gives you a news feed, just like Facebook, that finds your friends on places you didn’t even know they were. It seems a bit creepy, but the news on the feed is accessible to you already, you just didn’t know where they were. For this, we are opening up a new category called “social.”

Gizmodo got a hold of the Android prototype. It doesn’t look too good in a pic, but hey, it’s just a homemade pic. 

Today is a beautiful day. The birds are chirping, the wind is burping, and above all, aim is now on gmail. Of course, it has fewer features than the regular AIM messenger has, but it still talks to your friends, right? Right. I’ve been waiting for this feature for months. it is so useful to me because I have many friends who don’t use Gmail, but AIM. I don’t always find time for AIM in fact, I haven’t been on it for three months. Thanks to this, I will be on AIM while checking my emails.

Thanks Google!

P.S. And no, you can’t have my screenname.

Freewebs has finally (after over a year of waiting) introduced fotowhoosh a site where you can transfer your old 2d pics into glamorous 3d photos. Right now, you cannot upload to the website, but you can use your facebook photos in this application. It takes a pretty long time to render (5 to 15 minutes to be exact). However, it does not make you wait. You can go back to do what you do on facebook, come back, and view it. Make no mistake, the 3d photos do not make pictures look authentic, but they do magnify objects and give one the sense of traveling into your photo. It is another great feature of the web.

I just received a private beta invite from Docsyncer. It is freakin awesome. You synch your documents with Google Docs and Docsyncer’s servers and then you can go anywhere in the world and not have to worry about printing your documents out, or forgetting them at home. All it takes is a download a small program and Bam! You are worry free. The program works in the background so that whenever you edit a document, the site uploads it. Docsyncer also has a time line, so you can view how your documents looked in the past. The site is working on a way to let you upload a document from another computer and send it to your computer so that the document will be open on your computer when you return home.

Verizon has officially announced that the were thinking of the Android when they decided to open their network to other phones. They will use the Android. I have a feeling, though, that they won’t accept the phones that are specifically designed for the Android created by HTC. If they do, I’ll jump. Editors Note: I mean jumping happily not in another sense.

Hello everyone who has stayed with this blog. I am very sorry that we were away this November, but am glad to inform you that I’m back. On this post, I will give a review of the month. So lets get into it.

The Kindle is a mini computer designed by Amazon that allows you to buy books, news papers, and blogs off of amazon and then download it right off of the Kindle. The internet is free because amazon struck a deal with Sprint. I don’t know the speciics of the dea, but I guess that’s why book prices are kind of high. If you just want to use the internet, though, it’s free. The screen is book-like and dim to attract the people who do not like reading of of the glossy screens of today. It also has some note-taking abilities. I would like to see Amazon strike deals with major school textbook companies so students don’t have to lug around with heavy textbooks, breaking their backs. Then and ONLY then, will I buy something like this. MacWorld has a really good article on what we know and what we don’t know about the Kindle.

Flashphone is an awesome free flash browser based phone. It is based in Russia. Right now (as a Beta procedure) you are only allowed to have three minutes talking time, but the company says that when it’s out of beta, it will have unlimited minutes. The company’s money source is based on ads that come on before the call takes place.

iHound is an iPod tracker that tracks where the iPod i so that if you ever lose it or it gets stolen, you can find it. The way it works is whenever an iPod is plugged into a computer, the computer’s wifi sends a signal to the website, informing you where it is. This tracking idea is really good unless your guy is pour, which is usually the case with stealers, and does not use wifi, likes your collection of music, is a hacker, uses a firewall, owns a gun, lives in a bad neighborhood, or lives in another continent.

Doodlekit is a nice website creator that gives advanced tools to non-techies

On another note, the Google Highly Open Participation Contest (weird name) is an awesome idea. It awards $100 and a Google t-shirt to developers, 13 to 18 who do three things on several open source projects. The person who does the most for the open source projects get a free trip to Google’s complex in California baby!

But the most favorite of mine this month, isn’t that Verizon went open (which really isn’t open ), but the LiveScribe Smart Pen. It is pen that does just about everything that you hope for in a pen. Here is a summary of the pen:

Smartpen

Just slightly larger than a Montblanc, Livescribe’s smartpen is designed to replace the everyday pen as a user’s primary writing instrument. Leveraging recent breakthroughs in memory, storage, microprocessors, connectivity and component size, the smartpen is an advanced paper-based computer, with both audio and visual feedback, powerful processing capabilities and substantial built-in storage.

Dot Paper with Dot Positioning System (DPS)

Imagine a piece of paper the size of Europe and Asia, where every 3 square millimeters is covered with a unique pattern of dots that is nearly invisible to the human eye. The pattern of simple, micro-dots enables a patented dot-positioning system to precisely track the smartpen’s movement on paper. As a result, anything you write – words, numbers or drawings – can be stored, recognized, and intelligently responded to by the Livescribe smartpen.

Livescribe’s dot paper notebooks and documents will be provided by the company and partners at prices near standard paper. Dot paper may also be printed on certified home or business printers.

Applications

The possibilities for paper-based computing applications are endless – with tools and games that enhance personal productivity, learning, communications, and entertainment.

Never miss a word One of the key applications at launch for the Livescribe platform is called “Paper Replay,” which allows total recall from lectures, meetings or conversations by simply tapping on your notes. When used to take notes during a discussion or lecture, the smartpen records the conversation and digitizes the handwriting, automatically synchronizing the ink and audio. By later tapping the ink, the user can replay the conversation from the exact moment the note was written. Notes and audio can also be uploaded to a PC where they can be replayed, saved, searched or sent.

Create, share, and collaborate – Other applications will use the power of the Internet to enable personal expression. Handwritten messages can be sent as emails. Animated, hand-drawn “movies” can be posted and shared online. Spoken messages can be recorded, linked with written notes and emailed directly from a notepad.

“Live” documents that work – Other applications available for download will use handwriting recognition and pre-printed materials to bring your paper to life. Write a math problem and the smartpen will interpret your writing, calculate the answer and speak it or show it on its OLED display. Write a word and hear or see its definition or even its translation into another language. Tap a pre-printed map, conversion table, customer survey, magazine ad, or study guide, and the smartpen instantly launches an application that enables direct user interaction.

Cool, huh? It also allows you to create an application for the pen.
Bang!