Free Photoshop!

There is a free web-based version of Photoshop now available online. If educators were wanting their students to learn how to use this program without requiring the students' purchase of it (or a computer on which to run it), this is a great opportunity to provide access to a powerful tool for the creation of digital media.

And it's a reminder to me that Web 3.0 is not waiting for those of us still learning the Web 2.0 protocols. Web-based software and document storage is a movement I embrace for so many reasons. Besides the fact that this availability makes access to the tools more affordable, there is a huge investment of time and money I can avoid in maintaining software upgrades, document security, and data backup.