Adobe announced on Thursday the beta launch of Adobe Phtotoshop Express, an free online tool for editing, storing and sharing images without the need for any installations or downloads. The Express version of Photoshop is of course a pared-down of the full-blown version of Photoshop, but Adobe hopes it will get more people interested in editing their photos and familiar with the tool, and in turn then sell more copies of Photoshop C3 for the normal $600-$900.

The new tool isn’t completely without any downloads or installations since it does require the Flash player 9 to run, but will then run on any browser with the plugin including Windows, Macs and Linux machines. Adobe is also offering 2GB of free storage with the free Photoshop Express account.

Adesso has unveiled a new computerized notepad for taking notes with and later transferring those notes to your computer. It is called the Adesso CyberPad A4 and pricing is set at around $230.

The Adesso CyberPad A4, which comes bundled with Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 for Windows and 4.0 for Mac OS X, lets you do handwritten notes and graphics onto paper. It captures everything you write into its memory and later lets you transfer that to a computer for digital storage.