PicArtia - Create a Photo Mosaic

We've all seen those photos created with other photos to make a photo mosaic.  PicArtia allows you to create your own mosaic from a photo that you upload to their site.  Once uploaded you select from one of their galleries of photos to use as the tile pieces.  It would be cool if you could also upload your own photos for the tiles but, they do not offer that for obvious reasons (bandwidth, and they have probably already pre-processed the gallery photos for matching).  After you upload your photo and choose the gallery their servers crank away creating your mosaic.  You'll receive an e-mail when it's done with a link to download up to an 8.7 megapixel image for free.  Other sizes are available for ordering up to a 140 megapixel image for $9 US.  It's fast an easy and if you love the style it's a good way to experiment.

Prism - Have your Web Apps without the Browser

Here's an interesting app coming from the Mozilla folks.  They are providing a mechanism call Prism to run any web apps like gmail, google calendar, salesforce, etc.. as a windows app.  Now it's not really doing anything all that special but, it's interesting to see the integration with the desktop.  You can create links that show in your start menu or desktop that popup your web app of choice in it's own window; no address bar, navigation, etc.. since all that should be handled by the web app. It appears to be somewhat lightweight (around 20 meg installed), starts up quick and has minimal UI (mostly the standard window frame).  They claim it's a counterpart to Abobe AIR and Silverlight but, I describe it more as a browser without the typical browser UI.  Something fun to check out anyway...