Monthly Archives: June 2009

Do you have your picture all over the place? Places like Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook, Gmail, etc. Maybe you use some other picture as your avatar. Either way, whenever you sign-up for something new (I do this a lot for myself and many others), you will probably want to  add your picture to the site. Projects like Gravatar help with some sites, but in most cases the new site expects you to upload the picture from your computer.

So what do you do if you don’t have or can’t find the picture you want on your computer?

Well, I stumbled upon a neat idea that might work in some cases. At least it works going from Twitter to FriendFeed.

If you have the picture you want stored somewhere on the web:

• Copy the address of the actual picture, not just the page it is on.
• Go to the site you want to add the picture to.
• Click “choose file” (or whatever button let’s you pick a file).
• Paste the address of the picture into the filename box.
• Hit Enter and see if it works.
• With any luck it will upload the picture from the other site.

So, do me a favor. Try it out, and let me know which sites this works with and which it does not. Does it depend on the OS or the browser? In this case, I was using Chrome.

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Castle in the Clouds Buy From Art.com

Pictures make your post pop off the page. A text only blog packed with interesting content will still only get half the traffic of a site with well chosen illustrations.

I have really enjoyed using Zemanta, and talk about easy to use! It used to be that you had to pay for stock photography, but now sites like Zemanta make using photos easy and free. And then today, I ran across another site that pays you to put their pictures on your blog.

Art.com lets you pick the picture you want and put it in your post. Then if anyone decides to buy a print of that picture or any other after clicking through from your blog, you get a commission. How’s that for cool!

And if you sign-up too, by clicking the link below, I get an additional five percent whenever you make a sale. Which is, of course, the reason I am telling you about this. Just kidding, I was planning to tell you about it anyway. It is nice when someone is willing to pay you to do something you were going to do anyway.

Here is the link to sign-up: http://affiliates.art.com/get.art?T=15060109&A=793132&L=10&S=6

Or you can click on the picture to see the rest of their collection.

A year-and-a-half ago, right after I signed up for GrandCentral and offered out my available invites, GrandCentral went into closed beta mode, disabling all invites. For the next year, we all waited and wondered what would ever happen to this handy little application and service. Then a few months ago, GrandCentral was reborn as Google Voice with several handy new features. All current users were in but still no invites or new users.

But, there is still hope. On Thursday, Google announced that they will be opening the service to new users soon. So this is a shout out to everyone who has stopped by to ask for an invite. Help is on the way!

Well, I finally went and created my first sticky post. If you didn’t already know, a sticky post (formal name) is a post that stays at the top of your blog until you tell it to go away. Even if, you publish a bunch of posts before and after it, this post stays at the top. You can see my sticky post stuck to the top of my home page almost as if it was held there with a paper clip.

Twitter

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   lgedeonSo if you have missed the last few weeks of posts here is the link / – Lots of interesting pictures and tech posts5:30 PM Jun 26th from web
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   lgedeonI just figured out why blog traffic has been down lately. I am not putting links to new posts on twitter anymore. I wonder why I stopped?5:27 PM Jun 26th from web
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   lgedeonApparently, the trick to enjoying cucumbers, is to eat them fresh.5:23 PM Jun 26th from web
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   joannayoung@lgedeon I’m loving it Luke – takes great shots & easy to use. Just bigger than I’m used to carrying around – but lovely to hold 5:05 PM Jun 24th from TweetDeck in reply to lgedeon
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   lgedeon@joannayoung I just realized that you are using one of the cameras we are thinking about getting. How’s that Cyber-shot DSC-H5 workin 4 you?1:13 PM Jun 24th from web in reply to joannayoung
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   lgedeonThese reviews say the only real drawback is low-light enviro. Any counter-evidence? http://tinyurl.com/l2svc8 & http://tinyurl.com/kwrlfj12:00 PM Jun 24th from web
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   lgedeonI don’t want the cost and hassle of all those DSRL lenses unless it gives me something I need. Only thing these can’t handle is low-lighting11:57 AM Jun 24th from web
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   lgedeonRT @aimeenbarnes “China Accuses Dissident of Subversion” in NYT-> arrest of Liu Xiaobo http://tinyurl.com/lsek4f11:51 AM Jun 24th from web
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   lgedeonSounds like the Canon Powershot S3 IS may be better for continuous shooting. One site says it gets 2.5 fps (good) the other says only 1.5?11:48 AM Jun 24th from web
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    lgedeonSo what about a camera like the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H5? Looks like it will let you do everything a DSLR does w/o having to work with lenses?10:29 AM Jun 24th from web
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    lgedeonThe similarity b/t these to pictures has to be intentional but who is copying whom? http://tinyurl.com/nogzz37:11 AM Jun 24th from web
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    lgedeon@RobertHruzek Might try to find a camera shop. Have had no success with electronics on eBay. Have to research item, then still pick wrong 4:42 PM Jun 22nd from web in reply to RobertHruzek
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    RobertHruzek@lgedeon Try ebay, of course! Or do you have a local camera shop? They probably have some used ones lyin’ around.4:25 PM Jun 22nd from twhirl in reply to lgedeon
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    lgedeonThen when I go to buy a new camera I will know what to look for and what I really care about.4:24 PM Jun 22nd from web
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    lgedeonWhat I probably should have asked is if anyone knew where I could get an old DSLR (low megapixel) that has all the settings I need to learn.4:23 PM Jun 22nd from web
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    lgedeonbut right now I am thinking about getting something cheap to experiment with while learning all about aperture, f-stop, etc.4:19 PM Jun 22nd from web
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    lgedeonThanks for the links I will be back in a few weeks after reading them. No, for real, thanks. I probably will get a good cam eventually.4:17 PM Jun 22nd from web
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    camerarec@lgedeon place to start. Lots of support and along with this excellent book http://bit.ly/iW171 you will be in all set!3:57 PM Jun 22nd from TweetDeck in reply to lgedeon
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    camerarec@lgedeon You can use a DSLR as a big P&S as your learn and gradually begin using all the features. Nikon D40 http://bit.ly/cwYf6 is a great3:57 PM Jun 22nd from TweetDeck in reply to lgedeon
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    crossmark@lgedeon http://digital-photography-… has some forums & equipment review. Don’t be afraid – go for Nikon or Canon DSLR.3:55 PM Jun 22nd from TweetDeck in reply to lgedeon
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    RobertHruzek@lgedeon Howdy Luke! Hey, I suggest you check out the reviews at Darren Rowse’s DPS: http://digital-photography-…3:51 PM Jun 22nd from twhirl in reply to lgedeon
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    lgedeonWhat is a good camera to graduate to from a point-and-shoot. Dont think I’m ready for DSLR yet unless it has great userguide &/or community3:41 PM Jun 22nd from web
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    lgedeonI never noticed Zech 8:5 before. Cool!2:24 PM Jun 22nd from web

Don’t you love learning things the hard way?

I am practically pulling my hair-out trying to relink hundreds of images that were destroyed by auto-updating the Hot Linked Image Cacher plug-in.

It was such a neat little tool too, but it had one very peculiar instruction in the read-me file. It said not to auto-update. The problem is that with all the plug-ins I am using and testing, I forgot this was the one I could not auto-update.

See, it stores all of your images in a folder inside the plug-in folder. This is a huge no-no that I think they fixed in the most recent version, but I was not using the most recent version before I updated and when I did update all the local images were deleted.

Long story short, if you are using Hot Linked Image Cacher plug-in for WorpPress.

Update it manually!

We are about to find out.

I have a red paper clip.

I would like to trade it for a house.

Now, no one in their right mind (or likely their left mind either) would trade a paper-clip for a house.

But they say, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and through a series of 14 trades one man did indeed trade a paper clip for a house. You can read his story here.

So here we go. I am going to put my neck on the line and offer my red paperclip.

If you have something you would like to trade, anything at all, contact me using any of these methods, or just leave a comment.

You can follow the progress of this paper clip here.

Yesterday I wrote about a learning curve and Zemanta, trying to find relevant pictures to go with the article, pulled up the two pictures below. They had nothing to do with yesterday’s topic so I saved them for today.

As it turns out, there is an episode of Star Trek and also a movie called, “The Learning Curve.” I have not seen either, but the two photos that popped up struck me as odd.

Does anything about these pictures seem odd to you? Could this have been intentional?

Image via Wikipedia

Not seeing it?

Two women wearing red with arms crossed and similar expressions.

Between two men (three in left picture) wearing mostly black.

The closer (to the viewer) man in both cases have similar expresions and hairstyle.

The second closest men, both have their heads down with a side-glance toward the woman.

What do you think? Coincidence?