I just signed up for an account, easy enough to do, but I wanted my blog posts to dispaly automatically in my tweet.
Enter Twitterfeed:
Once there you will be asked to provide your open id, The chances are you already have one, check through the list.
So thats it, log in add your open id and desired feed address and wait, as i am now to see if it works.
Publish Now:
Add comment February 13th, 2009
If you have all your prized photos stored on your pc and would like to showcase them look no further.
With all the resources todays internet users have to hand it becomes a simple job to bring your photos to life on screen for all to see.
If you are publishing to a website why not try the google picasa download.
This application will basically find all the images on your pc and organize them into folders for you.
Once there it is a simple matter for picasa to build the html template add the necessary touches of code magic, ie javascript, or flash depending on template thus creating a folder ready to upload to your server space.
There is a growing number of free templates to use from developer paul van roekel and the instillation once you have picasa is also v.easy.
A note from his site:
How to install?
Extract the contents of the zip file to the directory \Program Files\Picasa 2\web\templates\. It’s important to place the contents of the zip file in it’s own separate folder! Start Picasa and select the images you want to export and then click Folder > Export as Webpage.
Thats all there is to it. Have fun.
Add comment April 8th, 2008
The application is still in it’s beta phase, and if you use it outside of the US you may experience delays as the pictures have to go via American servers.
I uploaded an album to test, see what photoshop effects, features are on offer. The uploading was successful, a little slow, but not too bad considering.
After you create your account you arrive here: below, where the interface is clear and easy to navigate. With 2Gb storage I think this is a nice little free app.
See my pics
Features include:
Basics
crop and rotate
auto correct
exposure
red eye removal
touch up
saturation
Tuning
white light
highlight
fill light
sharpen
soft focus
Effects
pop colour
hue
black and white
tint
stretch
distort
Take a look around Photoshop express
Add comment March 30th, 2008
I have some sound recordings of Molly on my phone, and was planning to upload one to go in a post.
Easy enough, but when uploaded I noticed the phone files are in amr file type. ‘Adaptive Multi-Rate Codec File’, I needed to change them for use on a webpage.
Enter: Miksoft
I couldn’t get the download to work, but found this site to get the software.
Thats it really just a quicky on the off chance someone might find it useful. You can see an example of the software with a working sound clip here
It’s nice and easy to use and does the job. Incidentally if anyone knows of a free non trial download that I can use to edit, clip sound files I’d appreciate any pointers, Cheers.
Add comment October 16th, 2007
Objective: to place code in the page and have mini applications working within the parameters of the page
To that end I have mashed a few plugins together and will now try and explain why, that is before I forget myself
Initially I just wanted to be able to add things I had learnt or wanted to explain in the blog post page.
For eg. I followed a tutorial See previous post
I had to at the time take the example out of the wordpress loop, I couldn’t find a way to add the necessary code to the head section of the page without that code residing in every subsequent post I made. See auto generated content in previous highlighted post.
So another plugin to the rescue, sometimes they sound great , but don’t always live up to expectations, this is not one of those. It does what it says, But I still have struggles, and be aware I do make things difficult for myself.. You know I am just playing around here, nowt too serious.
To add a link to a style sheet specific to the
particular post I am writing is easy using the box generated, which appears under your post text box
<link href="mystyle.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
So adding the above style sheet link to the add headers box will generate that link, but obviously does nothing to any links that are in the core wordpress index template. These links remain. and I’m wondering now why I am bothered
At this point I have kind of realized that it isn’t a mashup really at all, but to go back would be folly. I kind of wanted to get into what I had done, and why. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
Nice tutorial on Binary Moon
I made new page template as shown below, but created a new header..header1.php and had the template call that.
<?php /* Template Name: Uniqu */ ?> <?php define('WP_USE_THEMES', false); require('header1.php'); ?> <div id="content"> </div> <?php get_footer(); ?>
Deleted the style sheet link that is why
hello Mr.Plugin, I think I need to add a new unrelated link here.
Could be css, javascript, whatever.
At the end of all that I have test page, not done anything with this yet, but in combination with another ‘add page plugin’ and ‘keep page from main navigation plugin’, we have an option from the web interface to be able easily to add unique content and style to the blog on the fly.
I will have to re-write this..
1 comment August 12th, 2007
It does the job of adding the relevant information to the top of your post pages, I think this will help in getting some exposure for this humble little blog.
Buzzing, I think I have found what I was looking for initially.
This link is for another plugin, (I think) Check this out for adding custom headers.
Going back to the plugin being discussed.
Title, adds title in the title field of your posts page.
I think the description is what is the visitor sees when a search engine search has been processed, or to clarify, from the creators
own words.
Description
Your META description often gets used as the snippet of your page that Search Engines provide on their results list. This way, your description often is the first thing (besides title) a potential visitor sees. This makes it very important to craft your META descriptions very very carefully.
Keywords, adds the meta tags, so make them unique and interesting I guess.
I have to just include a disclaimer, being that all that I chat about here, is mostly learning, and experimental, and possibly full of detritus, feel free to let me know.
See you out there..
3 comments August 8th, 2007
A month since I last wrote, caused partly by lack of time, but mostly due to hardware issues. The good news is that we are up and running again, and at almost peak performance. Just installed a new hard drive with the assistance of Tom Chod
The old drive had become unstable, and I didn’t want to loose any files before a backup could be made. Apart from the frustration of searching for device drivers and reinstalling software programs I quite enjoyed the experience. Need to get a dvd writable drive and back up to disk I think whilst on the subject. There was few scary moments when the thought of loosing all my digital images at any moment was grim. Beyond that, tons of work, mostly experimental, learning, tips and tricks that I hope to one day when time allows get up here. I’d like to remind you before I go the Macdonalds blog is well worth a read. The global tour 2007-2008.
copan ruins in honduras
Add comment July 11th, 2007
The Windows System Configuration Utility (msconfig) is a system tool that allows you to remove programs from automatically starting when windows begins. Removing unnecessary programs from startup should allow your computer to boot up faster.
To check what programs you have running on startup, run msconfig.exe from your start menu.
Hit the run button, and in the box type msconfig.exe to open the application.
You will then be taken to this screen. Hit the startup button to view programs set to start when windows boots up.
Users and systems are all different but generally I believe all that is essential is power management, system tray, anti-virus, and firewall. A good resource for checking the programs running can be found here.
Start up applications list
After checking applications against this list you can uncheck programs you don’t need at startup. These are not deleted only disabled, so if you have need of them in the future, or have removed an essential program, you simply go back check the box and re-start your computer.
1 comment June 12th, 2007
I have often spent a lot of time searching for file conversion sites, for one purpose or another. This site looks as though it might streamline the whole process.
Zamzar free online file conversion.
I came across this today, and although I havn’t yet used it, or had it recommended, I thought I’d do a quick post for my own reference, bookmarking will inevitably get lost amongst all the other semi interesting sites I find on a daily basis. That is another story for a later post.
The site covers image, doc, music and video conversion, you simply upload file and submit e-mail and in theory they post back the converted file. Goooooooodo!!
Add comment June 9th, 2007
I came across this today
At first I didn’t think there was anything revolutionary about it, but when I read the comments asociated with the post that brought me to it, I realised it’s potential.
It’s free, very easy to use and a fast method for those often time consuming tweaks we have to perform on graphics to make them more aesthetically pleasing.
It’s new, and we are in test mode, and all features are currently available. looks like some of these will be lost when the full package is released. Never-the-less, the functions that look like remaining are worth consideration in there own right.
I for one love this kind of app, just makes the job easy,
Inner and outer borders, very nice feature, comes with hex. colour input, so there is no messing trying to match shades.
Crop, resize, sepia, black and white etc.
I think it’s main potential lies in the situation that occurs when a site for a client has been designed, and you the designer hand over the reins.
The site as your project, you have become immersed in, and know intimately is out there.
Thus far I havn’t faced this scenario, but I imagine the situation is likely to occur when a graphic is uploaded to a site that exceeds the containg div’s dimensions, things will burst, folks will not be happy your design did not automatically compensate.
To the future and beyond my kindred.
Add comment March 31st, 2007