Desktop image editors are great, but we're not always at our home workstations. Thankfully there are quite a few capable and feature-rich image editors to be found online. Let's hear it for web-based editing!

Photo by dogbomb.

Earlier this year we asked you to share your favorite desktop image editors. This week we want to hear about your favorite online editing tools. Where do you go when you're away from your home terminal and looking to edit some pictures? To qualify for this Hive Five the tool you suggest has to be entirely web based. If it requires any sort of local installation or administrative privileges, this isn't the time to nominate it.

Hive Five nominations take place in the comments, where you post your favorite tool for the job. We get hundreds of comments, so to make your nomination clear, please include it at the top of your comment like so: VOTE: Online Image Editing Tool. Please don't include your vote in a reply to another commenter. Instead, make your vote and reply separate comments. If you don't follow this format, we may not count your vote. To prevent tampering with the results, votes from first-time commenters may not be counted. After you've made your nomination, let us know what makes it stand out from the competition.

About the Hive Five: The Hive Five feature series asks readers to answer the most frequently asked question we get: "Which tool is the best?" Once a week we'll put out a call for contenders looking for the best solution to a certain problem, then YOU tell us your favorite tools to get the job done. Every weekend, we'll report back with the top five recommendations and give you a chance to vote on which is best. For an example, check out last week's Hive Five Best Free System Restore Tools.

Most air travelers can't afford the comforts that come with a first class or business ticket, but just because you fly coach doesn't mean you can't maximize your flying enjoyment. Travel site Condé Nast Traveler shows us how.

Photo by Robert Scoble.

Apart from taking advantage of your seat's personal TV and AC power ports (where available), the article also details how best to snag an extra seat by focusing your search on middle seats. (As we've previously mentioned, you can also score some extra leg-room by booking with low-fare carriers.)

Middle seats tend to be filled starting from the front of the aircraft and moving toward the rear—which means that if your flight isn't full, you're likely to get an empty seat next to you if you request an aisle seat in the center section in the back.

If you happen to be flying solo this holiday weekend or in the future, you can also up your comfort level by selecting carriers with the fewest number of middle seats. 767s, for example, only have one middle seat per row, which lessens the odds that you'll get stuck between two people.

If you want to get really specific, we'd suggest trying something like previously mentioned SeatGuru to help you find the best available seat in coach. Whatever you decide, the article advises to always book a ticket with a seat assignment. If you do your bidding online and seat options aren't available at the time of purchase, pick up a phone and reserve one through the airline. You can always try to change it at a later date, but it's important to go in with something.

Check out the full post for more ways to make coach comfortable, and feel free to chime in with your own non-alcohol-related tips to get through a flight. Or, if you prefer to upgrade, hit up our previous post on how to get to first-class.

Firefox 3.5 downloads skyrocket, Bing captures an impressive share of search in its first month, and your browser history may be less private than you thought.

• Web2.0collage
  You may be surprised to find out just how much a web site can find out about your browsing habits. [via Download Squad]
• Firefox 3.5 gets 5 million downloads, 2.4% market share in day 1
  After just a day, Firefox 3.5's real-time download stats showed 5 million downloads. As of right now, it's already at 8.8 million and counting. [Mozilla Links]
• Microsoft's Bing search wins share from Google
  It's still no competition for Google (for now, at least), but Bing's debut month was impressive. [Reuters]
• Microsoft to offer Family Pack for Windows 7 Home Premium
  Microsoft plans to offer a family pack for Windows 7 Home Premium users with up the three computers. No details on pricing. [ZDNet]
• Facebook Simplifies Privacy Settings, Calls Them Too Complex
  The popular social networking site is testing different privacy settings in an attempt to improve users' ability to tweak their privacy settings. [PC World]
• New Blog Search tools: Feeds, Hot Queries and Latest Posts
  Google improves their blog search engine. This editor uses it occasionally for work-related research, but I can't help but wonder if anyone else does. [Official Google Blog]

Sure you could hide your maps on the edge of your notebooks, but if you want access to full maps but don't want to look like the tourist wrestling with an unwieldy map, then you need to learn some advanced map-folding techniques.

Web site Map Reading highlights two different map-folding methods that should improve your map cred; we like the protection method best. Not only does it provide you with a very small, easy to peruse map, but, as Merlin Mann points out at 43 Folders, it's also a smart way to make a 16-page mini-notebook from a sheet of printer paper.

Are you a master of the map? Let's hear your best methods in the comments.

When we highlighted our favorite alternate uses for binder clips, it not only brought out the office supply lovers in the crowd, but neat new ideas as well.

Reader lina_zav wrote in to tell us how she keeps her to-do lists in easy view with a quick binder clip hack. A single binder clip and some silly putty is all you need to make this simple document holder. The gadget will stick to any upright surface and easily holds your to-do lists, recipes, or notes. Just stick the silly putty (or maybe some homemade playdough) on the flat end of a binder clip and you're done. This holder could be perfect for holding notes that you're copying on top of your monitor or on the side of your desk.

How do you keep notes, to-do lists, and other documents in easy view? Have your own document holder hacks? Tell us in the comments.