WWD Coffee Break: Picture Editing, Twitxr, & Firefox Extensions

ScreenshotOnline Picture EditorPicResize actually does a lot more than just resize pictures these days. After uploading a picture from your hard drive, you can crop or resize it, change the orientation, or apply a small variety of art effects (Oil painting, sharpen, blur, and so on). When you’re done, just click Save to get back a jpg, gif, or png of your edited image.

There’s nothing here that you can’t do with a variety of client-side tools, of course, but if you’re stranded on a computer that’s not your own, this is an easy way to do simple editing. They’ve also got an API and a batch resizer tool.

A Thousand Words in 140 CharactersTwitxr is the latest clone of Twitter to surface. The “hook” here is that you can add photos to your posts, as well as 140 characters of text. They’ve got a one-stop iPhone native client, as well as a web interface and an API. You can echo Twitxr posts to Twitter or Facebook as well.

Supercharge FF3 – One of the problems some people have been having with Firefox 3 is that the increased security checking for extensions makes installing some popular extensions tough. The folks at Lifehacker have done something about this for their own extensions, and you can now get FF3-compatible versions of their Better YouTube, Better GReader, and Better Gmail 2 extensions. Definitely useful if you want to tweak these popular sites to work a bit better.

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