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Photo sharing dilemma

Posted by on 9 Jul, 2008 in Articles | 2 comments

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:

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When to use something other than Google

Posted by on 8 Jul, 2008 in Articles | 2 comments

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.

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Chocolate Cake In 5 Minutes! | Dizzy Dee

Posted by on 8 Jul, 2008 in My Stream | 0 comments

http://www.dizzy-dee.com/recipe/chocolate-cake-in-5-minutes

now this i have got to try

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Linux is NOT Windows

Posted by on 8 Jul, 2008 in My Stream | 0 comments

http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm

analysis about why some people get disappointed with Linux

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The Website Is Down

Posted by on 8 Jul, 2008 in My Stream | 0 comments

http://www.thewebsiteisdown.com/

funny video about a tech support guy “helping out” a not so bright sales guy

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