Storing online

Thing 32. Online storage. Unfortunatly but not surprisingly after 4 years the expected changes have happened. Omnidrive doesn't exist anymore. Sounded good, pity it's gone. I searched for other free online storage and settled on 4shared. It's easy to use, quite intuitive so that's lovely. I don't need any online storage at the moment but a friend is about to teach a class in Gimp soon so I suggested she have her files stored online so she can access them from the course instead of carrying them around with her. At first we were going to use the free web space that comes from my ISP but seeing as I wanted to explore online storage we started an account for her to use for the class and for me to explore and see what it can do.

Even tho it's so easy it's still a little peculiar. There's an upload link at the bottom of the page that doesn't work, you have to use the one at the top. You can't edit files online unless it's a .txt file. The working page is set up like an email account and the top folder is where the files sit. There are 12 emails waiting for you when you sign in so that is a little unexpected.

You can edit images with Picnic. Nice, also easy, not as detailed as Gimp, but very nice for an online image editor.

Bottom line? I may find a use for all this, but I'll probably shop around a bit more and find one that has editing of more file types.

Skipping

I'm not doing thing 31 because I don't like doing organising on the net. I'm doing this blog with a nic - I organise my life under my name. They don't cross over. And under my own name I don't organise myself via the net. Maybe one day. I use outlook calendar on my work puter and my own smart phone which for 'security' reasons I can't syncronise. I do miss the synch - had it in my last job via a work provided blackberry, but it's not happing in this job, via the net, or with this nic!

Is that a cat, cow or cusion??

thing 30



Yah, I just like this

Scrapblogging Kable

Thing 29

I feel like this is very silly, but I did have trouble coming up with a subject for a scrapblog. I also don't feel like I'm very much of a designer. I know how scrapblog works now, and I guess that's the main thing. I tell myself...

http://www.scrapblog.com/viewer/viewer.aspx?sbid=2951984

Wired!

Thing 28
Probably a reflection of how I feel today:



It's not very clear but that is my eye, severely Gimped

Playing with gadgets

A new thing! I've been trying to email to my blogs from my regular phone but there's something wrong with the settings that I've never been able to solve. I can email home only. Delightfully, my work gave me a Blackberry and the plan is unlimited emails! Wow - can email my blogs!

Sent via Blackberry!

Skipping and volcanos

I'm going to skip widgets because I don't like to load other programs on my computer without knowing more about what they communicate back. That would be needing more research than I'm inclined to do. They may be useful on one of my blogs, but most of the blogs I use these days have their own set of widgets and I'm quite happy with them. I know what they are and how to use them but there's also been a few bad reports about widgets installed that have been less that open and ethical.

I already have a Flickr account that I use quite a lot, but lets see what PhotoBucket can do...

I like the idea of creating an album of something that appeals to me. At the moment I've been interested in volcanos. I get Google news alerts for volcano so now I know when the volcanos around our planet all decide to go off. So now I'm creating an album of photos already on PhotoBucket that have volcanos in them.

Ok, it's easy enough to figure out how to copy to my album. Hover your cursor over the pic and a list of options appear at the top, one of them being 'Add to my album'. Cool. Ah! The options doesn't appear for all the pics! So I guess there are restrictions on some of the pics these days...

Here's my effort: http://s622.photobucket.com/albums/tt301/jayoval/

I'll keep adding pics as I go, and I think it's another thing to entertain my kiddies with. I think they'll like volcano pics!