Flickr Convert Testimonial

Inspired by Torley as I often am I took the plunge and set up a Flikr account for myself. This huge weight has lifted off my shoulder and off my hard drive and I feel more agile. Packratting graphics has gotten to be a “problem” and instead of going out and getting an external drive right now to just continue my habit I decided there is a better way and I’ve been shown what that is by my husband and it seems to work pretty well.

An organizer who had gotten lazy about organizing my own things, this is me. I can tell YOU how to organize and keep things in a proper order but then I let my own files begin to overwhelm me and take over my precious and limited time. My computer is down to it’s last 25gigs of space and in SL I have over 25,000 items in my inventory!! It’s going to splode at some point if I don’t take care of all this now. Plus I have new greater things coming in my life and I need to be ready to receive them.

My Flikr account didn’t cost very much I think it was around $25.00 for a year.  You can create sets, add tags, make various levels of permission, add some personal touches and be part of other communities in Flikr, sharing with others pictures of all sorts, all that you can imagine.

Here are their bullet points on the different account levels.

• Unlimited uploads
• Unlimited storage
• Unlimited bandwidth
• Unlimited photosets
• Permanent archiving of high-resolution original images
• The ability to replace a photo
• Ad-free browsing and sharing

Compare that to what you get with a Free Account:

• 100 MB monthly upload limit
• 3 photosets
• Photostream views limited to the 200 most recent images
• Only smaller (resized) images accessible (though the originals saved in case you upgrade later)

Going through every picture in my SL inventory and saving it to my hard drive was a lot of work it is a one by one process but I attacked it like a kitten with a ball of yarn. Turn on some good music! It took me about 8 hours to grab about 1,000 snapshots out of SL from my inventory. I would do it in batches of 20-40 then I made a batch file converting script, WHY? because you can’t seem to upload tga files to Flikr *sads* but I was able to learn about using these tools and that is good *happy*. It’s not scary anymore and it’s not too much to do, it isn’t overwhelming me now, and it’s actually quite easy. Once I converted the 20-40 files I used the Flikr bulk uploader tool and sat back as it uploaded the batched into my Pre-SL 12-06 folder. I gave up on trying to uniquely name them or tag them at this point, they got a number and a standard tag and poof into the Flikr uploader they went down those tubes of the Internet.

Warning going through that many pictures is like surfing lots of memories, some good some not as good, same with all the files on my hard drive.

I highly encourage you to get a Flikr account, for yourself and to add to our global community. You have something to contribute, your special you! I also like how I am so agile now to access these files from any computer hooked to the Internet. So far I am loving the new technology we are seeing pop up for using the Internet.

My goal is to use Flikr for all my graphic file storage needs. I’ll let you know how this plays out.

Windows Live Writer (WLW)

This is one of the entries where I am testing out something new. Torley had suggested that I try out Windows Live Writer, and he has lots of good suggestions and I had told him I would. Last night he asked..did you try it yet? I hadn’t but again said that I would. WHOA I am so glad I did. So far this is super cool, first it’s easier to download and set up, I post to two blogs and plan to actively post to a few others and so far this seems like it will be an invaluable tool for blogging especially when you want to blog to multiple blogs.  I was hesitant because honestly I couldn’t imagine using something that had as nice a toolset as my typepad tools but I am pleasantly surprised and I think this set of tools is just as good and even better because of all the extra it can do. I’ll be trying out all the extra, all the knobs and buttons.

Now I want to test out how hard or easy is it to post a picture. It’s a picture of my dad when he was young before he met my mom.

How to use the new Official Linden Blog?

Video Tutorial. This is cool and definately makes the transition to getting my information on SL Blog easier, less confusing. It feels really comfortable hearing Torley explain how to use the blog, then again I may be a bit biased.