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:
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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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http://www.dizzy-dee.com/recipe/chocolate-cake-in-5-minutes
now this i have got to try
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http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm
analysis about why some people get disappointed with Linux
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http://www.thewebsiteisdown.com/
funny video about a tech support guy “helping out” a not so bright sales guy
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http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/cut-and-paste-one-line-of-code-to-make-any-website-editable/
sneaky… how to easily edit other websites!!
Read MoreGmail misbehaving in Firefox 3 on Leopard
How to get back your lost GMail features on Firefox 3 on OS X
Having become more and more aware of how slow and bloated Firefox 2 had become, and having downloaded Firefox 3 on my Windows laptop at work and noticed a definite improvement in load time and CPU usage, I decided to follow suit and install Firefox 3 on my Mac Mini at home which is running OS X Leopard.
It worked fine for a while, then today something strange happened – I clicked my usual GMail link on the toolbar and found myself presented with the HTML only view of GMail and a big flash saying “For a better Google Mail experience use a fully supported browser”.. wtf? Why would GMail not support Firefox 3?
I checked the provided link and confirmed that yes, GMail does support all versions of Firefox after 2.0. I clicked the “Mac” link on that very page and was told by Firefox’s download page that “Mac OS 9 and earlier versions not supported”. Since that page detects your system to give you the appropriate link, this suggests something is reporting my system as pre-OS X, and that is stopping Firefox and GMail from thinking they can support my operating system… How very bizarre.
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