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February, 2010:

Things 9 & 10 – Social bookmarking

Thing 9: Sign up for a Delicious account, bookmark and tag some of your favourite web sites. Thing 10: Add other Delicious users to your network so that you can easily view their bookmarks. I have been using delicious now for nearly a year. I can’t claim that I go back to it regularly to find things but I find it reassuring to know that I have some links to helpful tools and useful articles there in case I need them someday. I think the ones I go back for the most are those for web design, especially when I’m [...]

Sheldonian Man

Sheldonian Man Originally uploaded by ekcragg I took this photo of one of the stone heads outside the Sheldonian Theatre and had some fun with the effects in Picnik. This is my favourite. At first I thought it made it look like he was shouting, but then I wondered if he might be sneezing!

Things 7 & 8 – Online photos

Thing 7: Create a Flickr account. Thing 8: Edit images with Picnik. I’ve been using Flickr for a few years now but have only recently upgraded to a Pro account which allows me extra functionality in terms of the organisation of my photos into sets and collections. It also means I have no monthly limit on my uploads. I used to upload all my photos to Facebook for my friends to see but my frustration with their uploader drove me to explore Flickr. Their desktop uploader is awesome and it’s so easy to edit photos in batches on Flickr that [...]

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