Clipping Magic

I love Photoshop, but when I need to make a quick clipping of an image, it can take way longer than it should. Enter Clipping Magic, a web app that can make super quick and surprisingly accurate clippings. With a few swipes, you select what parts of the image you want, and which parts you want to remove. Including the time it took to upload the photos, I was done with this one in under two minutes.

Clipping Magic is only in its alpha stage but this is now my go-to tool for quick and easy clipping.

Flickr's New Look

Yahoo announced a brand new Flickr today. The new site gets rid of the useless whitespace, replaces pro accounts with an option to go ad free for $50/yr and gives all users an impressive 1TB of photo storage. While the photo-sharing website looks way better than it's former incarnation, one is reminded of Canada startup 500px. Here's a quick comparison:

Here Is Today Puts Things In Perspective

Everyone has those days where we think everything is going wrong and that somehow this singular moment defines our worth in the world aka the worst day ever. The minimalist website HereIsToday might help you realize that in the big picture, today isn't all that important by representing time in pixels. Once you get a clear idea of what that time/space means, you hit okay+ and it shows you what that means in the next increment of time. Years, century, millenium, etc. The takeaway is that no matter how bad your day might seem, life goes on. Even if it has been around for only 3600 million years.

See that strip of yellow? That's today.