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Connections: Facebook, Flickr and your camera phone

Administrator — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:19:38 +0000

Although there’s an iPhone app for everything short of walking your dog, sometimes there’s an easier way to something that’s a little off the beaten path. I was taking photos of some artwork that a friend of mine did with our daughter on New Year’s Eve and in the midst of sending it to my twitpic account, I changed my mind and came up with a way to post a photo to a Flickr photo stream and Facebook simultaneously.

Step 1: Find your Flickr upload email address.

This can be done by signing into your Flickr account. Then, click on You in the top left toolbar and then scroll down to Your Account. Once you’ve clicked on that, you will see a tab on the next page for Email. Click that and then on the next page you will see next to Your Flickr upload email, the address for sending photos that will appear in your Photostream.

Finding your upload email address

Step 2: Find your Facebook mobile uploads email address.

Sign into Facebook and go to your profile by clicking on your name in the top right corner. Then, go to the Your Photos tab, select an album and then click on Edit Album, then, Add More. Then, you will see an option below, “Got a camera phone?”. Click on “Upload photos straight from your phone.”, and you will be shown your upload email address in the top half of the next page.

Finding your Facebook uploads address

Step 3: Add the two email addresses to your phone.

This can be done by adding 2 new contacts, calling them Flickr and Facebook and then adding their respective email addresses.

Step 4: Take a picture!

Once you have a photo you want to send to both Flickr and Facebook, or, either one, simply select the email option in your camera phone and begin to type the email address. Once it appears as a suggestion, select it and then add the other as a CC if you wish.

Et voilà!

A camera phone photo uploaded to Facebook

Uploaded photo on your Flickr photostream page

Free Stock Photo site of the day

Administrator — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:45:00 +0000

The Stockexpert site is one of that rarest of breeds, a free photo website that is actually free! Well, some of their best photos are only available via their credit system, but it is clearly explained and they tell you right on the 1st pop-up window how much each photo is at each resolution. Having spent the good part of a rainy Saturday afternoon slogging through about 6 stock photo websites, this site was tops for selection, pricing (majority of pay-for-use images $1) and ease of use.

Getting Photos into your Google Map

Administrator — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:33:00 +0000

Since I’m currently working on 3 different sites that require working with Google’s map feature, I’ve had a chance to find a few quirks in their map interface. After trying to use their instructions to insert images into a map marker pop up, I found a few workarounds.
This quick tutorial assumes three things: 1) That you have a Google account. 2) That you have a map already created and saved into your “My Maps” on Google. 3) That you have set up a Google Picasa account.

I also recommend using a browsing program that allows you to open up multiple tabs since you will need to click back and forth between tabs.

The Google Picasa/Map method:

Step 1: In your image editing program, create an image that is at least 144 pixels wide.

Save on your computer as a jpg image. Make a note of its measurements in pixels for Step 8.

Step 2: On the web, go to your Google account and on the home page, go to More>Photos. On your Picasa page, select New Album on the right.

Step 3: Upload your jpg image. Then go back to your album and click on the image. After the image loads into its own page, you will see a link entitled “link to this image” in the 4th box down on the right. Click on it.

Step 4: Choose the “HTML to embed in website” option by clicking in the text box. This will highlight the code. Go to the top toolbar in your browser and under Edit click Copy.

Step 5: Now open a new tab in your browser (File>New Tab), and go to your Google homepage again. Click on Maps in the upper left corner of the page. Once that page opens, go to My Maps and select the map that you have created and saved.

Step 6: Once the map you want to work on is loaded into the window on the right, Click on the Edit button. This will enable you to make changes to your map. With your map in Edit mode, click on an area or marker to edit its contents.(see image below for example)

Step 7: Here’s the fun part! Switch to edit HTML and click at the top of the window to place the cursor there. Then, go to the top toolbar again and hit Edit > Paste. This will paste the URL that you copied from your Picasa page. You actually only need part of the pasted code. You will need to find the part that says img src= and delete the code that comes before it.(see the example code below for this and the next step)

Step 8: After you have deleted the a href tag, go to the end of the pasted code and delete the closing tag. (). Then, directly after the URL of the image in the remaining code, but before the closing bracket (>), type: width=(width in pixels)px height=(height in pixels)px. (see image below)

Step 9: Click Save on the left, and then click on the marker or area again. Check to make sure everything is OK by switching to the Rich Text choice in the pop-up window.

If everything looks OK, click Done.
Note: if it doesn’t look right at first, make sure the code for the image reads img src=”url for image” and then the width and height.