Ok…I know I’m a day late. But this is worth it. My friend Dave Ortega told me about this one and I’m totally sucked in now. It’s called PicLens. You have to watch the video to understand. I can’t explain it. If you have FireFox, download it and start using it now.
photo by: tinou bao
I don’t know if you’re like me, but I’m the type of person who likes to rearrange their house every few months. That’s why when Shannon said, “we should redo the office and put the desk here and the bed here…” I was all for it. Well I’m starting to see that I’m the same way with my web site. A few months ago I switched from Joomla to WordPress (before that it was from MySpace to my own domain).
Now I want to change the look of my web site. I’m just feeling like it is too cluttered and that it doesn’t fit my personality (the logo looks like it could be for a Fortune 500 company). So I’ve been kicking around the idea of redesigning the look of my site. I’m going to try to keep the same clean look, but go with a little more grunge of a feel to it (it makes sense in my head). I don’t know though.
Here is my question to all 10 of my loyal readers…do you think I should go with a different look for the site? Do you feel like the current one fits my personality? If you where to change my site, how would you change it? Let me know what you think in the comments below (don’t send me an email through my contact page Jason).My mind is pretty set on changing…but maybe you can change my mind…man that’s a lot of change.
Ok so I generally like to take Wednesday’s to introduce a new web site or piece of technology that I like, use, or want. So today’s submission is FriendFeed.com. If you’re like me, you use several different social networking sites (facebook, twitter, flickr, ect.). And keeping up with your friends in each one is kind of hard. You have to go to each one every day to see if your friends are doing anything new. This is where FriendFeed comes to the rescue.
FriendFeed allows you to set up a feed to share with all of your friends that includes your activity at all of your social networking sites. This way they can go to one place and see what you are doing at all of the sites. It’s kind of like a feed reader for your social networking sites. The one nice feature that I like about it also is that you can set up imaginary friends.
Yes you heard me right imaginary friends. This way if one of your friends (or most of your friends if you’re like me) don’t want to use FriendFeed you can set up and imaginary friend in their place and add their social networking activity to see what they are doing. You’re able to bypass having them sign up. Imaginary friends rock cause you get to make them just the way you want them (unless you’re like me and your imaginary friends no longer want to be your friend and decide to be a male model instead).
So check out FriendFeed.com if you do a lot of social networking or if you want to have an army of imaginary friends.
In my attempts to avoid doing work, I came across this plugin for WordPress that automatically posts your new articles to MySpace when you publish them. Since half of my reading audience comes from MySpace (seriously get a feed reader), I spend a lot of time reposting on MySpace every time I write something. So this has been a blessing from God. If you use MySpace and WordPress, get this plugin.
I normally save technology posts for Wednesday’s, but I wanted to tell you about this while I was in Seattle. I got set up on twitter.com yeterday. Twitter is a mini-blogging system. It’s like your status in Myspace and Facebook, but it is on its own. It alows you to give friends short updates to what you are doing/thinking. They can subscribe to your feed and recieve a text message or IM message every time you update it (here is a full tutorial on twitter).
It’s been pretty fun using it yesterday and today. I like it because I’ve been able to send my wife Shannon the emails too. So she is able to share in my experience while I’m here. You can go to my profile at twitter.com/gregqualls and be able to keep up with me as I’m updating it frequently with what I’m doing and thinking.
