Nils’ Geek Blog

Since my Gallery at foto.djupvik.org crashed, I haven’t bothered looking for an alterntive solution. I’ve heard lots of great things about Flickr, but haven’t really checked it out until now. I use Picasa to organize my pictures, and I’ve thought about somehow using Picasa to publish my pictures on the web as well. Today I think I’ve found the solution. I can email the pictures from Picasa, using my gmail-account to Flickr! Read about it here: Gmail, Picasa and Flickr

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I got the idea that maybe someone made an application which fetched a random flickr image and made it the desktop wallpaper. And I was right After 30 seconds of googling I found it! You can download it here.

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You should check out EA’s updated Spore site. There are some pretty nice pictures from the game and a new teaser video
Those of you who haven’t heard of Spore should definately check it out!

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As probably many of you, I’m now using G-Mail on a regular basis. I was not a fan of web based email-readers before, but with G-Mail it all changed. It’s neat and simple, fast, flexible, got filters and labels and all the functionality I need. I now forward all my emails to my gmail-address, and I then don’t have to check them all. I always keep one tab in my brower(s) open. This is, in my opinion, at least as good as keeping Thunderbird or Outlook Express open at all times. I always keep a browser window open. If not I get notifications from the G-Mail notifier or Google Desktop.

But one the strongest argument for me to choose G-Mail is still the filtering possibilities. This way I can filter, label, archive, forward etc. easily. I don’t have to manipulate config files, forward files on the server etc., but the option is easily accessible through the settings menu. I also use G-Mail as an rss-reader. I subscribe to feeds at R-Mail, and filter them (skip-inbox and add label). I use a seperate gmail account for this. Some of the filters forward search hits to my main account.

The latest addition to my G-Mail tools is G-Mailto. By installing this software the mailto: links will be redirected to G-mail. For those of you using firefox there’s a plugin called GMailCompose. Pretty neat

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When working on the Quito Project I’ve created a couple of useful components. I now want to make these available for those who want to continue to improve them.
If interested, send me an email or a comment here, and I’ll send the components to you.

You can test the compontents here:

The VideoViewer component
The VideoCurve component
The PhotoViewer component
The Horizontal Slider component

If you want to see them in use, check out The Quito Project

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