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For a long time, I scoffed at image sharing sites like Flickr. Who needs a photo storage site when you have a gallery on your own web site? Well, I found that our web gallery wasn’t set up to do 365 projects, and I had a free Flickr Pro account through my internet host, so I decided to give it a try. I was really happy...
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A few years ago, there was a photo-captioning contest at a Transformers web site that I frequent, TFW2005.com. The idea was to add a funny comment to a number of Transformers pictures that they had selected, mostly screen shots from Transformers The Movie (1986). I’ve been known to do some neat stuff in Photoshop, so I...
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I was playing with an interesting new web toy today. It’s called “Wordle“, and it makes images of words based on text (or web sites) that you give to it. Wordle takes all of the words fed to it and jumbles them up into a nice cloud. This one was created using the words from the “Family”...
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When WordPress released version 2.6.0, I decided to wait until the next major patch before I updated our web site. I never trust the big releases; better to wait until the inevitable bugs and security flaws are patched up first. The process was relatively easy: back up your database (got a plugin that does that with one click),...
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Flickr is an online photo management and sharing site. I upload a lot of our family photos in the gallery on our web site, so I had never bought into the Flickr phenomenon before. However, it turns out that I get a free Pro account because I use AT&T as my internet provider, so it was worth a look. I found that Flickr is also...
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I’ve been using Twitter for about nine months, and I probably send out about five tweets a day. Twitter is an interesting animal, in that different people use it in different ways. I think that it was originally meant to be a list of your current doings (“eating breakfast”, “feeding baby”, “out...
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Chrissy heard somewhere that it’s important to have a “favicon” on your web site. She noticed that many other sites have little icons next to their URL (and on the page tabs in Internet Explorer 7), but our site did not. I told her that this was fairly easy to do, but I didn’t know what we would use as a...
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A “gravatar” is an avatar that follows you from site to site, a globally recognized avatar. That way, you don’t have to set up a new avatar image at every blog and message board that you post to. Sites that are set up to recognize gravatars submit your email address to gravatar.com and get your registered avatar...
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