Category Archives: photos

temptation . . .

28 Wednesday Nov 2007

Posted by in christmas, nablopomo, photos, retail therapy, trips

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Gorgeous, innit?

And here are the specs.

I have to admit that a couple of the features (face detection, smile shutter) seem both silly and insulting, but the thing I love best about this baby is the 3″ viewing screen. And another big difference is that the one I have now has a lens that goes in and out, which I’ve been having trouble with for the past year or so. Unless the batteries are almost fully charged the camera keeps shutting itself off when I try to take a photo, though I can still view the pics on the memory card. So I thought having a camera with fewer moving parts might be a good idea. But mostly I’d like a bigger viewing screen as the one I have now is only a measly 1.5″ (about 4 months after Nog & I bought it the new models came out, all with standard 2 or 2.5″ screens. Grrr… )

I mentioned over here that I was hoping Santa would bring me a new digital camera with a 3″ screen, but after checking out prices Nog & I decided that it’s too expensive for a Christmas pressy, so we’re going to go halfers on it and maybe also give each other a weekend in Granada over the holidays (we’d be getting a ride there & back so we would only have to pay for the hotel and meals).

Last time we went to Granada I was still using my crappy old snapshot camera, so the photos should be much better next time. 🙂

slide show

12 Monday Nov 2007

Posted by in blogging, nablopomo, photos

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I saw this yesterday over on The Generator Blog when I went to look for the Bob Dylan thing (I’d also seen it over at alji’s a few months ago) and decided to make a slide show to put on the front page of my viajando travelblog. It sure helped with my dilemma about what should go on the front page, but I wish there was an option not to have the various buttons on it, especially the ‘More’ one.

~ Slide Show Generator ~

az’s travelblog

07 Wednesday Nov 2007

Posted by in blogging, nablopomo, photos, spain, trips

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Yeah yeah, I know . . . another blog!!!

But I was looking at my sadly abandoned and neglected trips page this afternoon and thought it might be more interesting to have everything together in one place, kind of like I did with the sevilla tapas page, moving it all over here.

The main ‘problemita’ is that the travelblog is going to have way more photos than the tapa blog – and there is no way of doing bulk uploading of photos on WordPress. Which turns uploading a photo album into a most tedious and arduous task (especially like earlier today when I uploaded and posted 58 photos !!! and then found out they were all the wrong size and had to do it all over again!) f_wah.gif

Anyhow, there is only one category even somewhat set up so far – the Barcelona one. I’ve transferred the Barcelona blog post over from here, which talks about the trip – though it still needs to be edited. And there will also be different ‘albums’ (much like how I set them up on Fotki) on separate posts. The only Barcelona album up at the moment is my favourite one, with photos of Casa BatllĂł. But Nog says 58 photos on a blog post is maybe too much and I should think about editing them down. What do you think?

~ Viajando ~

blurb

05 Monday Nov 2007

Posted by in books & writing, computers, life stuff, nablopomo, photos

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This is very cool – check out Blurb Book Publishing

Blurb is a publishing company that allows you to publish your own books using their free BookSmart software. You can then print your book to sell, or just for yourself, and you only pay when you actually print the book.

I first saw this over on Ashish’s blog and he had this to say after trying out the software…

Blurb is essentially a book publisher, a marketplace, a community of author’s like you and a company providing tools for said author’s to create books all rolled into one. The highlight of Blurb is of course the free BookSmart software, which is available for free download. You just need to register, which is also free. The software is easy to learn and use, but make sure you do have the resources [which many modern computer’s will fulfill in a jiffy] needed to run the application. I might say that I barely meet the minimum requirements when it comes to memory but I had no problem. As for the creation process, a very helpful wizard will get you making your book before long.

Maybe I’ll dust off that old unfinished novel of mine (once again) and give this a go . . .

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