Making Them Work Together

What were the Seven Most Popular Posts of November? Enquiring Mimes Want to Know Why

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Looking back at November, it’s worth taking a look at which of our posts were most popular with readers and try to guess why, and what should we do to provide what our readers want in the future.

Here goes:

How to Raise a Charitable Child? – I’m happy this post was popular. I try to pepper the website with a few articles other than technology, especially on raising great kids since I’ve started so late, myself. Is it off topic? Not if I define the topic.
Big Boy Competition for Google Docs and Zoho Office Coming from Microsoft – Pretty straight news with a snarky title. Microsoft moving some of Office to the web is consistent with stories about web services that we normally cover.
You Tube Challenge: Make an Actually Good Video – The Onion - Straight satire. Very funny and on-topic to the extent that I’ve found humor in the mania for watching YouTube before. Do readers like satire better than straight articles? We do get our news from Jon Stewart.
Making Picasa and Flickr Play Nicely Together – Straight “how to” article, useful if you’ve tried to make these two work together.
Our Two Worst Posts of October and one (dis)honorable mention – Enquiring Mimes Last month we picked our worst posts of October. Readers must like to share our humiliation. Q:Write more bad articles? Probably.
XMind Mind-mapping is Now Open Source A short review and download link of a good previously, for sale, now free tool. I like free things.
Read It Later, A Must-have Firefox Plug-in Good short review for a Firefox plug-in, if you’re using Firefox. Our November stats say that your probably were using Firefox more than any other browser. More plug-in info?

Tell us what you liked and hated in the comments.

Making Picasa and Flickr Play Nice Together – [How To]

picasa-logo Picasa is a great free Windows Photo Organizer and Flickr is a great online media hosting and social web site. Maybe since Picasa is a Google product and Flickr is a Yahoo! product, it’s not always intuitive as to how to make them work together.

Ideally you would store all you digital pictures on your Windows computer in Picasa and then be able to automatically upload them to your Flickr account. Out of the box this process takes several steps.

If you’d like to make this workflow painless you need to do about five minutes of installing and configuring and then your uploading will be a breeze.

We’ll assume you’ve already downloaded Picasa, if not, get the version 3 beta, it’s great. Got an account on Flickr? No, go to Flickr.com and sign up with your Yahoo! username and password.

Next download and install FlickrUploadr. This is an official Flickr application that let’s you upload and configure bulk digital images from your PC. Get it here.

Okay, now the last step. Download a little piece of “glue” called “picasa2flickr”, sounds right, doesn’t it? Download and click on this magic piece of glue will install a new button in the control panel at the bottom of your Picasa screen called “send to Flickr”.

sendtoflickrbutton So this is the way the magic will happen, you will choose the picture/s in Picasa that you want to upload to Flickr by selecting the picture/s, then press “Send to Flickr” which activates FlickrUploadr which will give you the opportunity to add titles, descriptions and keywords to you picture. You’ll press “Upload Pictures” and when the pictures have been uploaded to Flickr, you’ll be given one more chance to see and manipulate them online before they appear in your Flickr account.