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Though the hot Mexican restaurant chain missed the fourth-quarter profit forecast, analysts say it still has a better chance of attracting cost-conscious diners than other brands

The retirement advocate’s financial products get mixed reviews

The new initiative, in which six major lenders agree to delay foreclosure in some cases, represents business as usual for the banks, and little relief for homeowners

It’s time for the likes of Wipro, Infosys, and Tata to regroup and reinvent their business models to compete with global rivals like IBM and Accenture

The superslim ThinkPad X300 is Lenovo’s bid for leadership in the high-stakes world of laptops

Back in August we wrote about FotoFlexer, an online photo editing service that really stood out in the crowd of other online services. One of the reasons we liked it was because it had some more advanced features comparable to those you’d find in Photoshop or Paint.NET like the ability to have as many layers as you’d like.  They also implemented shortcuts that are familiar to most like using Ctrl+Z to undo something that had been done. It appears they’re looking to become an even bigger competitor in the market of both online and offline photo editing services by introducing professional tools for users to work with that are free. The service is called FotoFlexer Pro and I think you’ll be impressed.

Here are some of the advanced features that you can expect:

• Curves and high resolution editing (adjust coloring, contrast, and exposure)
• Smart scissors for cutting an object out of its background(like the magnetic lasso tool in Photoshop)
• Preference saver (like Photoshop’s workspace preferences)
• Color effects (like filters in Photoshop) - they offer quite the selection of different effects including blueprint, neon, grayscale, invert, painting, cartoon, and more

While FotoFlexer Pro doesn’t offer enough for it to be a Photoshop replacement, it does add enough to make it the most full-featured photo editing service available on the web that we are aware of. I’m still a big fan of Picnik though and think their interface is more user-friendly and easier to use. The only downside to Picnik is that their premium service costs $24.95 per year. Whether you choose Picnik, FotoFlexer, or any of the other services available, there are a lot of great choices out there to help you edit photos for little to no cost.

Note: FotoFlexer seems to have a few issues in Opera so you may want to use the service in Internet Explorer or Firefox.

Source: Mashable

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When it comes to the high-def format war I don’t think there is much arguing that Blu-ray is emerging as the clear winner. Within the last week Netflix announced that they are starting to phase out HD-DVD’s from their rentals, and then shortly following them Best Buy said that they will start recommending Blu-ray to their customers.

Walmart is hot on the heels of everyone else announcing on their blog (yes, apparently even Walmart has a blog) that they will be selling Blu-ray exclusively by June:

By June Wal-Mart will only be carrying BluRay movies and hardware machines, and of course standard def movies, DVD players, and up convert players.   Not sure of the short term pricing plans, but history tells us that as more people move to a new technology prices typically go down. 

I can only imagine that the PS3 sales will now pickup quite rapidly since Blu-ray has become the obvious winner. The PS3 actually looks pretty cheap when you compare it to the price of the existing Blu-ray players out there, but the movies are still so much more expensive than regular DVD’s that I don’t think I’ll become an adopter quite yet.

What’s it going to take for you to jump on the high-def bandwagon, or have you already adopted one of the technologies?

Walmart Blog [via Engadget]

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It’s no mistake, iPhone users actually use the Internet on their phone and they’re using Google to perform searches. Google originally thought they made a mistake with their data when they saw how often they were getting search requests from iPhone users. As it turns out, it was no mistake and Google really is receiving 50 times more search requests from iPhones than any other mobile handset. Vic Gundotra who is the head of Google’s mobile operations was quoted as saying, “We thought it was a mistake and made our engineers check the logs again.”

So what is it about the iPhone that users actually make use of the Internet versus other mobile handsets? One of the biggest reasons has got to be the ease of use of the iPhone. It’s effortless to search the web - Safari on the iPhone is convenient to use versus browsers on other mobile devices that aren’t quite as convenient.  Another big thing is simply the fact that Google is the primary search engine that is available to iPhone users. If the primary search was changed to Yahoo, I imagine Google would see a pretty decent decrease in the number of search requests coming from iPhone users.

So what does this increase in searches from iPhone users mean for Google? Duh. More money! And once Android-based mobile handsets hit the shelves sometime later this year, I imagine they’ll see another big bump in searches and of course money.  There’s no doubt, Google is in a pretty darn good place right now in the mobile industry.

Source: Apple Insider

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This was from the WND: I have no idea how something this stupid could get through Congress but it’s not our fucking problem to support the world.

Sen. Barack Obama, perhaps giving America a preview of priorities he would pursue if elected president, is rejoicing over the Senate committee passage of a plan that could end up costing taxpayers billions of dollars in an attempt to reduce poverty in other nations.

The bill, called the Global Poverty Act, is the type of legislation, “We can – and must – make … a priority,” said Obama, a co-sponsor.

It would demand that the president develop “and implement” a policy to “cut extreme global poverty in half by 2015 through aid, trade, debt relief” and other programs.

When word about what appears to be a massive new spending program started getting out, the reaction was immediate.

“It’s not our job to cut global poverty,” said one commenter on a Yahoo news forum. “These people need to learn how to fish themselves. If we keep throwing them fish, the fish will rot.”
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