Monday, March 31, 2008

Thing #30- Lolcats

Meh. I mean, I know the caption doesn't go with the picture, but I couldn't force myself to deliberately use wrong grammar. I get that Anil Dash has a whole article about the idea that lolcats can have a particular grammar, but I just doubt everyone making lolcats realises this!

Anyway, of all the things we've done so far, I think this is probably the least useful for us at the library.

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Thing 29- Scrapblog

It would appear I've been having a busy 2.1 day. And yes, I found one I like quite a lot, after a few things that weren't really my cup of tea.

Like Anne, the photobucket thing/link didn't work for me, but it wasn't too much of a hassle to save my pics to my pc, then just upload them. So my album is... here! Tada!



Um, yep, Twilight... pretty much. My only other thing about the thing that I didn't like was the shortage of darker pics/backgrounds- not specifically because I wanted to make a vampire book promo (which I did), more because there's more than cutesy stuff that a person might want to make... like so much, it's limited, and I'm sure there's a way to make it more interesting than just using the defaults available.

The thing for me is, I love technology, my laptop and I are practically attached by an umbilical cord, and I LOVE photoshop (not that I made the pics in my scrapblog, I stole them and I have no idea who made them), but I really like scrapbooks to be scrap books.

/end rant, since I already said I liked this new toy!

Thing #28 Well, we're big rock singers...

...so I made a Twilight cover, since it's my latest craze, but to be honest, the program didn't thrill me, there just wasn't enough room for variables that I could find- much as I hate to say it, I think there's a lot more opportunity for creativity with microsoft programs like publisher, using their templates...

Friday, March 14, 2008

Thing 27: Photobucket

What I like about Photobucket: the url that each pic gets assigned! Super handy for just putting the image into any kind of webpage as a signature image, or just as a pretty addition to a post...


...such as this, the cover of the latest book I read.

What I don't like about photobucket is how easy it is to not have a private account, meaning that anything you find in anyone's account might not have been put there by them, so giving credit to the person/account where you found the art might be redundant...

Wednesday, March 12, 2008


Thing 26: Little bits of the Internet, on your desktop

Random observation: yes, vista comes with widgets, minis, all sorts of fun. It also takes a very long time to open, even with 2gb of ram... Yep, I'm an XP gal! Just upgraded two weeks ago, and I'm very happy with my shiny new (old) operating system!

Okay, so I had a little look at putting a widget into my blog, which is fine- you'll find it right here above my post- but that's the thing- wouldn't I want a widget thingy in my sidebar, not my main content? And I noticed Livejournal wasn't catered for, so I found that a little strange, so it's pretty limited to not have the option of getting some kind of code to put in wherever appropriate...