Thu 9th Nov 2006
Posted mid-afternoon, filed under
General.
Just noticed Google Photos in a browser window. This is a new service, according to my reckoning, but is really just Picasa, which Google bought some time ago.
New info is that you can use iPhoto to upload images, as evidenced at Mac Tools. I’m glad Google decided to use iPhoto instead of making a Mac version of Picasa. Now all I need is a version of iPhoto that doesn’t totally suck with a large library of photos.
Oh, and 250Mb ain’t real big for an online photo album. I’m up to around 6Gb at home, and that’s without really trying.
Thu 9th Nov 2006
Posted mid-afternoon, filed under
Humour.
Thanks to Andy at TouchSA, I’ve come across a couple of rather cool, funny things on the interblags. They are all related, but I’ll go through all of them.
They all relate to that funniest of television chefs: the Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show.
- The first is the Firefox extension that translates the web content into Bork Bork Bork.
- Secondly, Google has Bork, bork, bork as one of it’s languages, so you can have it in that language whenever you search. Note that this is for the Google pages only, not the search results themselves.
- Finally, I found a tool that converts any entered text into Bork Bork Bork. [Swedish Chef!]
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Thunks tu Undy et TuoochSA, I’fe-a cume-a ecruss a cuoople-a ooff rezeer cuul, foonny theengs oon zee interblegs. Zeey ere-a ell releted, boot I’ll gu thruoogh ell ooff zeem.
Zeey ell relete-a tu thet foonneeest ooff telefeesiun cheffs: zee Svedeesh Cheff frum zee Mooppet Shoo.
Zee furst is zee Fureffux ixtenseeun thet trunsletes zee veb cuntent intu Bork Bork Bork.
Secundly, Guugle-a hes Bork, bork, bork es oone-a ooff it’s lungooeges, su yuoo cun hefe-a it in thet lungooege-a vhenefer yuoo seerch. Nute-a thet thees is fur zee Guugle-a peges oonly, nut zee seerch resoolts zeemselfes.
Feenelly, I fuoond a tuul thet cunferts uny intered text intu Bork Bork Bork. [Svedeesh Cheff!]
Thu 9th Nov 2006
Posted early afternoon, filed under
Blogging.
… blogs with multiple domain names.
This blog has a couple of different domain names by which it can be accessed. I would prefer it all to be schinckel.net, but it’s not possible to have Blogsome work properly if it thinks that is the domain name. I’ve got it pretty close (most of the links, for instance, point to a schinckel.net location), but since it is a multiple user system, and the way it works out which database the data should be gathered from, the domain name must end with blogsome.com.
So, in one sense future-proofing myself (if Blogsome shut down, I would simply repost all of the data onto a new system, and just point schinckel.net there), and another because it’s a shorter domain, I want links to go to there instead.
But, there is one bad side-effect. I use technorati for seeing incoming links, but with the setting change I talked about above, it only now picks up links coming to schinckel.net, not schinckel.blogsome.com, which isn’t really good enough. Since I get more links coming to the latter than the former. So my dashboard doesn’t get to see most of the links I’m really interested in…
