Wondering where to get a web service that consists of calendar, to-do lists, notes, files and image storage? Backpack is the one. What I like about this site is their feature of calendar and reminders that can be sent via email or to your cell phone at predefined times. You also can tag pages so that its easier to find or group those related pages together.

With backpack, you can keep track of things to do and places to see on your next vacation, plan a home improvement project, organize a wedding, keep track of houses you’re considering buying, gather information for a research project, and plenty more. See examples of how you can use Backpack.

Another thing that I like about Backpack is that you can share your pages with your friends or colleagues. All you need to do is to click the “Sharing” link on any Backpack page, enter someone’s email address. An email will be sent to them and then they can view the page too. This is the simplest way of collaboration.

Want to try it out? Sign up for a free account today. You may upgrade, downgrade, or cancel at any time.

PP showed me this website this morning. Its a cool website to edit your photo online. I’ve explored it and find it way too cool hence I’ll share this out with you guys.

This website is called Picnik. It is Flash based, and so far its the fastest of the bunch. User interface wise, it is the most intuitive. I like this site’s color scheme, its soft colours is the current trend.

You’ll need to register to use this tool. Complete the simple registration form and you’re free to use the tool. One thing that I like about this tool is you’re able to open your photos from flickr, picasa, facebook and photobucket. I chose to connect to my photobucket’s images.

Some other cool features that comes with this web application are auto-fix, rotate, crop, resize, exposure, colors, sharpen and reducing red-eye. You can undo and redo the changes and also zoom in and out of your photo. Wow, thats way too cool and convenient. You should go and try it out and see how powerful the web application is.

We’ve also discovered some other sites that provides online photo editing tool as well.

• Adobe - Adobe’s free online version of Photoshop is nearly done …..
• Fauxto - Fauxto is a Flash-based Photoshop look-alike. It is the only layer-based online tool that we know of, and is by far the best of the bunch…..
• Picture2Life - Picture2Life is an Ajax based photo editor. It’s focused on grabbing and editing images that are already online…..
• Preloadr - Preloadr is a Flickr-specific tool that uses the Flickr API, even for account sign-in…..
• PXN8 - PXN8 is the best of the Ajax based editors (and the best overall until Picnik launched) and has a great user interface with the main features highlighted on large icons…..
• Snipshot - Snipshot, previously called Pixoh, is another very-good Ajax-based editing tool that stands out because of its above average design and the fact that they have an API into their service…..

Are you considering what size your image needs to be when you put it up on the web? In this example, I’m using an image with the width of 600 pixels. I opened the image using Photoshop, and changed the image to 600 pixels in width. Then set the resolution to 72 pixels. That is the standard setting for screen display.

To save your image for websites, select File > Save for Web. I’m assuming that most people will have broadband speeds of at least 512 Kbps and we will base our image optimization on this speed. In the Save for Web dialog box, click on the Preview Menu button (small round button with a triangle pointing right) and select Size/Download Time 512 Kbps.

This is important for evaluating our download speeds later. During the Save for Web process it is essential that you compare the visual appearance of the optimized image against the original. To achieve this, simply select the 2-Up tab (top left corner) and you will see a before and after version of the image, side by side.

The compression mode that I use for a JPEG image is usually at High / Quality - 60. You can always change the Quality value to your liking. Some might compress it even more while others will preserve the image quality.