Photographic Printing Meets the Web 2.0 Revolution — theprintspace Launches an Online Photographic Printing Studio for Professionals

theprintspace has extended their groundbreaking ‘DIY’ photographic printing process to the web. theprintspace.com will be the first online service to incorporate an easy to use professional colour management process. The result - enabling accurate soft proofing of images by clients on their own systems using bespoke print profiles, meaning prints that are as accurate as possible - first time! The process is explained in easy-to-follow video tutorials filmed exclusively by theprintspace, making theprintspace.com the first specialist professional photographic printing lab to utilise the web 2.0 spirit of innovation to its full potential.

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Online Printer Broadens European Frontiers as Optimalprint Expand Services to Germany

Online printer, Optimalprint is launching their German website.

Oslo, Norway April 23, 2008 -– Online printer, Optimalprint is launching their German website www.optimalprint.de, offering online printing solutions for individuals and small to medium-sized businesses (SMB) providing free design templates and free online storage. Optimalprint continuous to broaden their European frontiers, their expansion to Germany will mark their entry into the world’s third largest economy.


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For all Mac user - NeoOffice - free

NeoOfficeOn Friday, 30 May 2008, FreeSMUG.org will be hosting an event in Milano, Italy. At that event, the developers of NeoOffice - Patrick Luby and Ed Peterlin - will give informal presentations and host discussion sessions on NeoOffice’s future plans and other topics of interest to NeoOffice users.

The goal of NeoOffice is to provide an entirely free and complete Mac OS X office suite based on the international OpenOffice.org project—only with the look-and-feel you’d expect from any Macintosh application.

The OpenOffice.org project is a large open-source effort to create the ultimate office “suite” including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing software, database, and much more. With OpenOffice.org, you can easily import, edit, and exchange files with users of other office programs, such as Microsoft Office or WordPerfect.
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Bling! It Now Lets Mac Users Transform Product Images and Boost eBay Sales

See, Click and Transform: Latest Version of Bling! It Grants Individuals and Small Businesses Operating Mac Systems the Confidence and Credibility to Compete on the Global Market and Raise Sales, Click-Through-Rates and Sell Stagnant Inventory

San Francisco, CA January 16, 2008 — Vertus, the graphics and imaging software division of Heligon, a technology business specializing in image data interpretation, today unveiled the Macintosh-compatible version of Bling! It, its recently released deep-graphic image-editing tool that quickly and easily transforms product shots to create maximum online sales impact. Since its initial launch, Bling! It users, even those without any prior image editing experience, have found that the software helps raise the achieved sales price of their products and increases the click-through-rate over standard thumbnail images. By giving product images a “shot-in-the-studio” look and feel, Bling! It creates images which attract more attention from buyers, helping sellers achieve higher prices for their products and move previously stagnant inventory. The software is available for live demonstrations throughout Macworld Expo 2008, January 15-18, in the Vertus booth #W-4231.

By combining complex technology with easy-to-use tools, Bling! It empowers any user to strengthen and embellish product images thanks to capabilities previously available only to seasoned image editing professionals. With Bling! It, Mac users can unlock their creative potential without having to master complex and intimidating image editing programs such as Photoshop. With just a few clicks and the guidance of Bling! It’s intuitive balloon tips, users can seamlessly replace a standard image background with a more appealing backdrop and add features such as drop shadowing, highlight effects and logos. The sheer speed realized with Bling! It enables even the novice user to produce product images up to four times faster than with any previously available solutions.

“Bling! It enables anyone to create high quality product shots capable of competing with studio-shot professional product images. We’ve received numerous comments from customers that have “Blinged” their product shots, that they have realized as much as a 20% increase in their achieved product price,” said James Carr-Jones, president and CEO of Vertus. “With businesses of all sizes and industries offering products through e-commerce outlets, the entrepreneur that makes the best impression online ultimately generates the most sales. Bling! It enables even the most casual seller to optimize potential revenue and increase profits by making products truly stand out from the ever-growing crowd without the need to master Photoshop or other complicated imaging programs.”

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SeeFile.com Announces Free Hosted Storage Service For Apple iPhone Users

First such application developed specifically for Apple’s iPhone — 5 Gigabytes free online storage space per user — Photos, PDFs, QuickTime videos and other files can be uploaded and shared — Thumbnails and previews are generated automatically — Online photo prints are available for point-and-click ordering — SeeFile 3 technology also supports Mac and PC web browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari — Site goes live 4PM EST Friday, June 29th; press and blogger previews available prior to launch

Boston, MA June 27, 2007 — SeeFile, a developer of webserver software for sharing media files, today announced its support for Apple’s iPhone with a new free hosted service, www.seefile.com. The site combines 5 gigabytes of storage space, graphical previews of saved files, and features such as print ordering and online annotation, which go beyond what online storage sites typically provide.

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