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Sometimes in your environment, as school, work, is not easy to find someone to date, because all the great person are already committed or just doesn’t want to date anyone, they just prefer to be alone.

So, how meet someone to spend your life with? You could look for free online dating. There are thousands of free dating sites out there but, at JustSayHi.com you can meet someone of your dreams, and the good thing is it’s free.

If you are a real geek, I know you already had an online date, but, some people think that is not good to meet someone over the internet.

Well, I think it’s a good thing, I have a friend from Brazil that met a guy on internet from New Zealand, they fell in love and got married, they are married since 2003, and they are truly happy.

So, get your chance! If you are looking for free dating sites, visit Justsayhi.com

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It is a known fact that e-commerce is booming and professionally built on line stores are getting ahead of their competition.

If you are looking for a good shopping cart software, think about Ashop. Ashop is an Award Winning Shopping Cart Software, hosted shopping cart system with great customer support. It is the easiest and most economical way of being up to date with the latest technologies. Your on line store software needs to be up to date with functionality and especially security for the merchant and the customer. With Ashop your entire website and on line business will be managed from one complete e commerce shopping cart software.

Also, Ashop offers you several features and you can test drive the demo shopping for free for 10 days.
Ashop is also an award winning technology: Ashop won the category award for “best technology in small business”.

Remember: the success of your e-commerce is directly connected with a good shopping cart software.

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Created by Tolkien somewhere in the 1930s, the map shows the ‘mortal lands’ of Middle-earth, which according to Tolkien himself is part of our own Earth, but in a previous, mythical era. At the time of the events described in ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’, Middle-earth is moving towards the end of its Third Age, about 6.000 years ago.

Tolkien didn’t create Middle-earth ex nihilo: ancient Germanic myths divide the Universe in nine worlds, inhabited by elves, dwarves, giants, etc. The world of men is the one in the middle, called Midgard, Middenheim or Middle-earth. That term doesn’t thus describe the entirety of the world Tolkien thought up. The correct term for the total world is Arda – probably derived from German Erde (’Earth’) and only first mentioned posthumously in the Silmarillion (1977); and Eä (for the whole Universe).

The Hobbits are described as inhabiting ‘the North-West of the Old World, east of the Sea’, and therefore it’s tempting to associate their home with Tolkien’s own, England. Yet, Tolkien himself wrote that ‘as for the shape of the world of the Third Age, I am afraid that was devised ‘dramatically’, rather than geologically, or paleontologically.” Elsewhere, Tolkien does admit “The ‘Shire’ is based on rural England, and not any other country in the world.”

Tolkien at least compares his ‘Old World’ with Europe: “The action of the story takes place in the North-West of ‘Middle-earth’, equivalent in latitude to the coastlands of Europe and the north shores of the Mediterranean (…) If Hobbiton and Rivendell are taken (as intended) to be about the latitude of Oxford, then Minas Tirith, 600 miles south, is at about the latitude of Florence. The Mouths of Anduin and the ancient city of Pelargir are at about the latitude of ancient Troy.”

But, as Tolkien states in the prologue to ‘The Lord of the Rings’, it would be fruitless to look for geographical correspondences, as “Those days, the Third Age of Middle-earth, are now long past, and the shape of all lands has been changed…” And yet, that’s exactly what Peter Bird attempts with the map here shown. Bird, a professor of Geophysics and Geology at UCLA, has overlapped the map of Middle-earth with one of Europe, which leads to following locations:

• The Shire is in the South-West of England, which further north is also home to the Old Forest (Yorkshire?), the Barrow Downs (north of England), the city of Bree (at or near Newcastle-upon-Tyne) and Amon Sul (Scottish Highlands).
• The Grey Havens are situated in Ireland.
• Eriador corresponds with Brittany.
• Helm’s Deep is near the Franco-German-Swiss border tripoint, close to the city of Basel.
• The mountain chain of Ered Nimrais is the Alps.
• Gondor corresponds with the northern Italian plains, extended towards the unsubmerged Adriatic Sea.
• Mordor is situated in Transylvania, with Mount Doom in Romania (probably), Minas Morgul in Hungary (approximately) and Minas Tirith in Austria (sort of).
• Rohan is in southern Germany, with Edoras at the foot of the Bavarian Alps. Also in Germany, but to the north, near present-day Hamburg, is Isengard. Close by is the forest of Fangorn.
• To the north is Mirkwood, further east are Rhovanion and the wastes of Rhûn, close to the Ural mountains.
• The Sea of Rhûn corresponds to the Black Sea.
• Khand is Turkey
• Haradwaith is the eastern part of North Africa, Umbar corresponds with the Maghreb, the western part of North Africa.
• The Bay of Belfalas is the western part of the Mediterranean.

Via StrangeMaps

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Because, if we can buy a Microsoft Surface Table, at least we can make fun of it.

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Everybody loves Photoshop and Gimp. But, imagine yourself in a situation like that:
You are travelling and want to send your pictures to your friends and family. You go to an Internet Cafe and using a on-line photo editor you can adjust, rotate, cut, and others things.

Yes, you can do it. Of course, all these tools don’t have all features that Photoshop and Gimp have. But I’m pretty sure, in the near future all these tools will be replaced by Web 2.0 tools.

So, here is the list:

It’s very simple create your account at Phixr.com, in less than 15 seconds you’re done. To send your pictures you can:

• upload it
• give the photo web address
• edit a picture directly in your Flickr account
• using Phixr Upload Tool

Here are Phixr major features:

• Flickr and Picasa integration
• Support for Windows XP Web Publishing

You can:

• Rotate
• Scale
• Crop
• Black & White
• Sepia
• Equalize
• Brightness, saturation, hue
• Mix it with other photo
• Add effects
• Download and save as JPEG, PNG, PDF, GIF, OCR

Rating:

Geek Sisters Opinion: Easy to use, fast, always allow you to undo to the initially uploaded version of the photo.

It’s fast, has an intuitive interface and the crop, rotate, size bottons remember flickr style.

• Special effects
• Blur/Grayscale/Sepia
• Crop Tool
• Resize and Rotate Tools

Limitations:

• You can save just in the following formats: JPEG, GIF, PNG e BMP

Rating:

Geek Sisters Opinion: Simple and efficient, but just with too few options.

Fauxto is an elegant online image editor, the most advanced and most similar to Photoshop.

It’s the only one working with levels, such as blur and shadow for each level.

Major features:

• You can open jpeg, png, gif, bmp, and tiff images via ‘Open Web Image’ in the ‘File’ menu.
• You can put folders inside of folders.
• You can zoom.
• You can free-transform beautiful, anti-aliased text within a layer, and then apply a multi-colored radial gradient with a variable focal point in another.

Fauxto is Flash based, fast, one of the most complete web 2.0 photo editor, but of course, with some limitations:

• You can’t open .PSD files
• Has some bugs (I received a error message when tried to save an image)

Rating:

Geek Sisters Opinion: Easy to use, fast, we can say it’s a Photoshop online.

Picnik is a flash and Ajax based tool, with a beautiful interface, efficient and with great accessibility.

You can send a picture from your computer, you can edit a Flickr picture or even use one of those picnik sample pictures, just to test the tool.

• One-click photo fixing or in-depth tweaking
• Auto-fix, Rotate, Crop, Resize, Exposure, Colours, Sharpen, Red-Eye in real-time
• Tons of special effects, from arts to fun
• Borders and Rounded Edges
• Works directly with many photo sharing sites
• No download required, nothing to install
• Free version, premium version (soon)

Rating:

Geek Sisters Opinion: Picnik is getting stronger and stronger and right now is the best online photo editing tool.

Preloadr is a free service providing image editing functions. It is designed to pre-process photos uploaded to Flickr.

It uses the public API of Flickr and connects you to your Flickr account, where you can enhance your photos before sharing them with your friends.

You don’t need an account since you will use your valid Flickr account. Has several functions such as:

• cropping, sharpening, colour correction and other usual tools.
• scale; add text, move and histogram.
• layer feature.
• adjusting luminosity with green, red and blue colour individually.
• editing the colour graduation of the image itself.

Preloadr works with the following browsers (minimum requirement):

• Mozilla Firefox (1.0)
• Apple Safari (1.2)
• Opera (8)
• Internet Explorer (5.5)

Rating:

Geek Sisters Opinion: Preloadr does offer great advanced tools and it’s really handy, due to the integration with Flickr.

Picture2Life allows you to ‘bring your pictures to life’ with its simple and easy-to-use online image editor that works great with your pictures that you already have online.

Guess what? That includes all photo sharing, photo hosting or photo blogging websites such as Flickr, ImageShack and 23.

You can do effects such as:

• Rotate
• Sepia
• Shadow
• Watermark
• Brightness
• Color
• Contrast
• Flip
• Gamma
• Grayscale
• Hue
• Invert
• Collage

Rating:

Geek Sisters Opinion: It’s a good editor, with several special effects and allows you storage your images in its own server space, but has an odd and complex interface.

Pixenate is online photo editing software that you can use stand-alone or integrate into an existing photo-sharing or photo-printing website.
If you don’t want to install it in your website, got to its page and just use it.
Things you can do:

• Rotate
• Sepia
• Shadow
• Red Eye
• Resize
• Colour
• Enhance
• Zoom
• Whiten

And also the fun effects: Add text, add border, transform in a oil paint, add filter, or even add snow.

Rating:

Geek Sisters Opinion: Easy to use, simple, with a traditional interface, good for those moments you just need a quick picture editing tool. Don’t expect advanced tools control.

Snipshot is a tool for basic picture editing, has great integration with several browsers and other websites, but just a few of editing options: crop, enhance, brigthness, contrast and rotate. It’s also very fast and you can edit really big pictures.

Snipshot features:

• No download necessary—100% browser based, no plug-ins required
• Free API lets you use Snipshot for your own website
• One-click import from any webpage
• Save to a free permanent URL at WebShots or to your Flickr account
• Save as GIF, JPG, PDF, PNG or TIF
• One-click enhance improves most images
• Basic editing tools like crop, rotate, resize
• Basic image adjustments like contrast, brightness, saturation, sharpness and hue
• Unlimited undo and redo (Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y, or ⌘Z and ⌘Y on your Mac)
• Nondestructive editing— always working from the original
• Edit big pictures—up to 10 MB, or 25 megapixels (5000×5000 pixels)
• Import PDF (first page only), EPS or SVG

Rating:

Geek Sisters Opinion: Simple and efficient, but just with too few options.

GIFWorks is probably the oldest and most widely used online image editing tool in the market.

Pros

• Comes with a wide array of Photoshop like Filters [effects] like Pixelate, Watercolor, TV Lines, etc.
• Allows creation of animated GIF files
• Image Info dialog gives detailed information about the web graphic.

Cons

• Works only with GIF format images
• Some of the editing options open the image in a pop-up window. You may have to turn off the browser pop-up blocker.
• Cannot fetch images from other internet locations.
• Poor interface.

Rating:

Geek Sisters Opinion: Still a good tool to work with your animated gifs.

Wiredness looks like a software installed in your desktop. If you like a traditional software interface, Wiredness is for you. You will find File menu, Edit menu, etc.

• It doesn’t need Flash installed and seems faster than other using Flash.
• You can upload 5MB files.
• Works with on-line files (you just have to give the url)
• Also Flickr integrated.
• Basic tools like resizing, cut, brightness and contrast.
• Allows cool effects like polaroid borders.
• You can open several tools at the same time.
• You can save it in the following formats: JPG, GIF or PNG, or even send directly to a webhost like ImageShack.

Rating:

Geek Sisters Opinion: Good tool, useful, and the possibility to open several tools at the same time is really handy.

Popularity: 18% [?]

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