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Photo sharing dilemma
Random musing for today: I can’t decide the best way to share my photos online.
Currently I sometimes use Flickr and sometimes Facebook, and have also considered setting up my own instance of Gallery or some other customisable self hosted solution. Ideally I would like to settle upon just one solution to avoid duplication – But it seems like each option has some advantages and some disadvantages.
Flickr
Advantages:
- Effectively unlimited storage, because the allocation is “amount uploaded per month” not in total. This can be increased by upgrading to pro, which is possibly worth the cost
- Stores much higher resolution images (even higher if you upgrade to pro)
- People can download images at different resolutions
- Has some degree of privacy controls – can choose if any given photo or album is viewable by all, or friends only, or family only, or friends and family.
Disadvantages:
Read MoreWhen to use something other than Google
When Google invented PageRank, they became the best search engine on the Internet, a default place to find anything online – and I like many other people changed my search habits from trying multiple engines (AltaVista, Ask Jeeves, Webcrawler, Lycos etc) to just one. What I am starting to find now though, is that while Google is still the best for straightforward keyword based searches, there are a few specific types of thing where Google is not my first point of call:
“How To” videos
I have found that VideoJug is an excellent place to find really good quality instructional videos. Recently my wife and I held an Egyptian-themed murder mystery party and I used VideoJug to find this excellent video on how to tie a turban. Just today, I was looking for something I could make out of paper as part of my present to my wife for our first (“Paper”) wedding anniversary and found just what I was looking for.
General overviews of a topic
If there is a topic, person or area which I know nothing apart, I have found that it is far quicker to go directly to Wikipedia than to bother searching Google.
Read MoreLaurie McCannas Photoshop Tip #39 – How to Create a Perfect Screenshot Painlessly
http://www.mccannas.com/pshop4/tip39.htm
i’m sure it was useful in its day, but unless you’re making retro 1993 web pages, i’m not so sure these tips are much use now.
Read MoreMusicovery
http://musicovery.com/index.php?ct=us
seems like a nice idea. i can’t get it to play anything tho. Maybe cos I’m using Firefox. Or cos I’m using a Mac. Either way – not working.
Read Morehttp://www.nobeliefs.com/images/DarkAges.gif
what a load of crap. notice how we apparently have reached the peak of scientific advancement, all in recent times. Looks like scientology propaganda.
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