Voice Over The Wall: March 2008

Adobe Alters Photoshop Express Terms of Use

John Nack posts a note about the alarming Terms of Use for Photoshop Express, and the response from the Photoshop Express Team.

Adobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. However,... you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) ...

The Photoshop Express Team quickly replied and is altering the Terms of Use.

We've heard your concerns about the terms of service for Photoshop Express beta. We reviewed the terms in context of your comments - and we agree that it currently implies things we would never do with the content. Therefore, our legal team is making it a priority to post revised terms that are more appropriate for Photoshop Express users. We will alert you once we have posted new terms. Thank you for your feedback on Photoshop Express beta and we appreciate your input.

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TNA Wrestling

I was there for the filming of the 2/28 episode! TNA has reused this footage of Me, Jami, Robby, and Ms. Mindy during the 3/6, and 3/21 episodes of iMPACT!

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IceBreakers Mints Make Me Sneeze

It is guaranteed. I will sneeze every time.

Other people have experienced this as well.

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Online Storage

With an ever-expanding need for more space and backups of critical files (photos and music, of course)...I have been looking at the various online storage options.

Here are the ones I have found...

- Mozy Home Free - 2Gb free for Macs and Windows.
- Mozy Home - Unlimited for $4.95/month for Macs and Windows.
- Photoshelter - Tiered photo storage plans starting at $9.99/month.
- Skydrive - 5GB free, from Microsoft.
- Jungledisk/Amazon S3 - $.15/GB/month for Macs, linux, and Windows.
- Flickr Pro - $24.95 for unlimited photo storage.
- Adrive - 50 FREE gb.

There are many more, such as Shutterfly Pro (photos), Smugmug (photos), Google, etc. ArsTechnica reviews some of them here and ExtemeTech has a review of six free services here.

If you find one of interest, please add it to the comments.

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Thurrott on Office Live

See Paul Thurrott's thoughts on Office Live Workspaces here and here.

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Office Live Workspaces

I was curious about Microsoft's Office Live Workspaces when I heard it had been opened up to the public in beta form. Worthy of noting are the prize giveaways associated with registering and using the service. I signed up.

It looks good and usable for many things (including the creation of quick notes and predefined task-based documents), but it is seemingly missing a HUGE feature curently available with Google Documents. Why can't I create a blank Word document or Excel Spreadsheet in Microsoft's Office Live? Why does this have to be an "extension" of Office and not a web-enabled Office? I think the answer is obvious...

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United States Tossing and Turning...

From Arstechnica...

The US CDC wants you to get enough sleep. The agency tracks a variety of ailments, including Type 2 diabetes, depression, and cardiovascular disease, that have been associated with a lack of sleep. They also contributed a member to an advisory board that formulated a long-term plan (PDF) for research into sleep disorders. Now, just in time for National Sleep Awareness Week, the CDC has released figures indicating that the US population isn't getting enough rest.

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