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Despite the fact that I love sharing photos, the last thing I usually want to do at night after work is sit in front of my computer photoshopping pictures. I love all the cropping and tinting that I can do on my Macbook that makes the pics taken from my crappy Casio camera seem like they were taken by a pro. But usually when I'm on a remote desktop my photoshopping capabilities are limied. For most of us, our work computers are sans photo shop and I always wish there was some way to edit photos on the go.

Using Picnik, you can edit your pictures right in your browser using photoshop usuals and special effects and then you can save your final product right to your computer. You don't have to download or install anything! You can play around for hours mixing photos together to create collages or puzzles, use over 35 effects to make your pic look like a neon sign or pencil sketch, or add text, shapes and frames.

I can already sense my boss getting excited about all the Halloween pictures I'll be editing on company time...

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We’ve all done it. Circa 2 a.m. Saturday night, you stumble in from the bar, plop down in front of your laptop and proceed to compose a gmail response to your boss (one less thing to do hungover) or profess your love to your ex-flame. I’m an on the go-offender myself. Damn blackberry email capabilities.

Well this week Google announced a side-kick to assist in combating drunk habits, “mail goggles”. The term is a play on “beer goggles”, the sad but true presumption that after a few glasses of wine, the scrawny guy in the corner with the sweater vest increasingly resembles John Mayer.

At the bar, we have our girlfriends to assure us of the true nature of our prey (I do believe my best friends saved me on my 21st from going for a 40+ married man). At our computers, we now have Mail Goggles on our side.

Google’s plan is to make sure that you really want to send that email by automatically prompting you to answer five simple math problems before you hit the ‘send’ button. Apparently if you can do a little addition and subtraction, you should be aware of the consequences of your emailing. I've never been a math quiz and I'm not sure how accurately this is all going to resonate with a tipsy Blogette, but I'm definitely seeing success for a similar Facebook app.

According to the Official Gmail Blog, Mail Goggles is by default only active late night on the weekend, as that is the time you're most likely to need it. Once enabled, you can adjust when it's active in the General settings.

[Photo: Macbook by _ES' on Flickr used with permission under Creative Commons Copyright.]

I’m not one for littering my Facebook wall with crazy applications, but a new application that launched yesterday caught my attention.

Slide, Inc. launched FunSpace Channels, which will allow facebookers to share TV shows and other videos directly through posts on Facebook. You can view videos from Hulu (which has every TV show you could ever imagine), CBS and Warner Brothers.

Translation: now not only can you watch Lipstick Jungle and Gossip Girl online, but you can post full episodes on your friend’s walls for quick reference. “Check out the skirt Serena is wearing after the third commercial!”

Ok so I probably won’t really do this. I guess it’s a cool thing to be able to watch videos on a site that you frequent almost daily anyways, but I think I’m going to stick to Hulu.com. I’m a big fan of watching TV online and Hulu’s been good to me in the past.

Anyways, is it really that much of a hassle to open up a new window to watch your favorite show on it’s original site? Will we soon be hooking up our email to Facebook?

Also, I thought the catchphrase of Facebook was “Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life”, (referencing the new facebook’s homepage), aka encouraging person-to-person communication. Not sitting on your Facebook page for hours on a Saturday morning watching every past episode of The Office.

I think Mark Zuckerberg is just encouraging us to be zombies in front of the Facebook screen (think ad revenue) instead of zombies in front of the TV per usual. Slide, Inc. is already the most popular third-party application, with 20 million active users monthly.

Don't you wish that you could be inspired by your favorite designers such as Gucci, Kate Spade, Betsey Johnson, Stella McCartney, Diane Von Furstenberg and Dolce & Gabbana (that's only a few) every time you check your email?