Technology is getting more and more complex, but at the same time, amazing technological benefits are available to us average Joes without too much fiddling around. That is what this column will be covering. Every Monday, right here at BloggingStocks.com, I'll feature an easy-to-use hack, gadget or service that really can make your life better. Geeks, technophiles and early adopters have plenty of other places to look for hot new technologies to try. Here you'll find technology for the rest of us.

Not all that long ago I used to help run a small computer lab at a university. One of the decisions we had to make was which image editing software to use. With hundreds of computers around campus the other factor to worry about was cost.

Our biggest frustration was that we just wanted a very simple application that would cover a handful of basics. Cropping images, resizing them, saving them as JPG formatted images, and maybe some red-eye reduction was 90% to 95% of what everyone did with a picture. But because image editing programs always came with tons of features, we always felt like we paid for all sorts of things we never used.

Fast forward to today, where web applications are finally getting easy enough to use that they can do some nifty things just like slimmed down desktop programs. And online image editors are coming of age for the rest of us. 95% of what I do is crop, resize, and save as JPG, and there are number of neat on-line applications that will do it for you. You don't have to shell out $30 to $100 for a simple image editor.

Here are four well-featured on-line image editors that could work for you.