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For all you Flickr lovers

I recently found a need to use Flickr. Sure I’ve signed up with an account and thought i would upload lots of mobile pics. Well that never happened..but I had a client that had a nice portfolio in Flickr that I wanted to pull down and place in their custom gallery.

Unlike Photobucket, Flickr does not allow you to download complete file sets. I found it hard to even download all of them at once. What I wanted was all of them in the sets they are in.

After testing a few free programs and others that promised to do more for $$$..trials that would only let me download 3 sets then paid to do more. Nope, not gonna do that. Looking a litte deeper I found

FlickrEdit

Free and does download all or sets and even saves the set names.

This was exactely what I was looking for, thank you SunkenCity for a cool free program.

This wouldn’t be needed if Flickr would just add some much needed features.

Just start with Photobucket if you are looking at either of these two online photo storage services.

FireFox 7 puts Memory on a Diet!

Looks like the days of Firefox hogging up so much of my computer’s memory, (even if I am equipped with 8GB)

Love to hear they are plugging leaks and I can run Firefox for days before I have to restart it…Some days right now I have to restart 2 times a day.

And with a faster internet connection coming soon, this working online will become a much smoother and effiicent process.

Article

Mozilla forces Firefox 7 on memory diet

Project MemShrink payback

By Gavin Clarke • Get more from this author

Posted in Applications, 28th September 2011 12:09 GMT

Free whitepaper – 2011 Lippis Report

Firefox 7 has been released with a promise from Mozilla its browser is less of a memory hog.

The new version of Mozilla’s browser will consume up to 50 per cent less of your system’s memory than past editions with most users clawing back 20 and 30 per cent.

Firefox 7 apparently achieves this thanks to a project started in June called MemShrink.

The project’s goal has been to improve the architecture and code in Firefox by eliminating bugs behind memory leaks and putting in place practices to detect regressions.

With Firefox gobbling up substantially reduced amounts of memory, the idea is for Mozilla’s browser to become dramatically faster and less likely to crash if you have lots of web sites and tabs open or keep Firefox running for long periods of time between restarts.

You can read more here.

Other features in Firefox 7 include the fact WebSockets are now enabled by default on mobile, for two-way communications with a remote host for HTTP, while the Canvas element for graphics has been updated for snappier performance.

You can read more here. ®

Original Source

Handy radiation checker iPhone App

This seems to show how ready the world is for quick and useful tools that can be sent and used from your Mobile Phone.
Wait! this Tool is only providing information…it’s not like you get a Geiger Counter ported to your iPhone….
And I bet you thought that at first….

Article Below: Click for Original Source

iPhone users can now download a free iPhone app to tell them what local radiation levels are, in case they’ve not got enough to worry about.

The new application is available worldwide, though you’d have to take paranoia to a new level to worry about spreading radiation from Japan if you weren’t actually nearby: even then you should probably worry about rebuilding the country’s infrastructure more than media-hyped threats of radiation poisoning.

The data for the app, called Radiation Information and published by Qnuouo, comes from the Japanese Ministry of Education, scraped from the ATMC site which already provides charts based on government feeds.

Those disinclined to trust the government can see how safe they are from the crowd-sourced Failed Robot, which mashes network-connected Geiger counters into Google Maps, but there’s no iPhone app for that yet.

We’re sure it won’t be long – the mobile app developers aren’t quite as quick as the Trojan-writing scammers to take advantage of people’s credulity and fear, but they aren’t far behind. ®

Vista “hacks” to run more like Windows 7

Want your vista to be more like Windows 7, but don't want to pay?
Here is great vid I found while researching Windows 7.

These are all hacks and use 3rd party software so "enter at your own risk"

Here's the video:

And for those doing a clean install of Windows 7, even if you have a OS installed, check out this Video.

Re-Installing Wordbooker

Just making sure wordbooker is posting to my facebook account.

What is wordbooker?

It allow cross-pollination of your posts and comments from your wordpress powered blog to your facebook account.

Post To your Wall via your website's blog.

New Browser with Social Built In

If you use facebook and/or twiiter YOU NEED TO READ OR WATCH THIS. 26 mins for both videos. It's worth it.

It was on the way a year ago, the next evolution to interacting socially through your browser. Enter RockMelt.
RockMelt builds in support for social networks and news/information sites in the form of left and right margin toolbars that alert users any time there's new content to consume. At this beta launch, support for Facebook and Twitter is built in, and you'll even have to log in using your Facebook credentials to start using the browser. This also means anywhere you run RockMelt, your settings and alert statuses will be synced via the cloud.
Full Article Here

A brief Video Demo

And a short (23 mins) interview with the creators:

How will this change your life, our Internet lives, our social lives….it works through the cloud!
meaning..your social web is now on the go..everywhere you choose.

Corrupt preferences file in photoshop

Photoshop acting bugging on you?
It started to do so to me today.

My particular Foobar reared its face in the form of “invisible images.”
That’s where you open a file and you can see all the layers in the Layers Pallet, but the work area is blank. Just an empty gray background just as if you had not even opened anything.

Ok the fix is much simpler than pulling out the install disk and going through all of that mess. Besides that would require you to save all sorts of plugins, brushes, action scripts, hotkeys, and anything else you have made custom to you give you a more productive and creative workflow.

Just erase your current preferences file and see if that fixes your photoshop woes.
Here’s how:

After starting Photoshop DO NOT WAIT for the the splash screen, and quickly press and hold <Alt><Control><Shift> simultaneously, if you are on a windows system. On a Mac press and hold <Option><Command><Shift>.

That little fix seems to fix about 85% of photoshop woes.

Oh, be sure to note any changes you have set-up in your preferences file, like scratch disk, units & measurements etc. Those are what you are resetting!

Happy Designing…

Dreamweaver has java errors.

As I was working today just fine when Dreamweaver 8 started acting up and spitting out errors.

The following JavaScript error(s) occurred:
At line 56 of file “D:Program FilesMacromediaDreamweaver 8ConfigurationSharedCommonScriptsdwscriptsExtData.js”:
ReferenceError: dwscripts is not defined

Well a search on the ole’ google turned up others have been having this trouble for years.

I would like to thank Heidi Bautista and her tip on how to fix this and cyberskillsguide for helping find those pesky files that I swore were in another folder.

*note: Yes, I did have the hidden files in view mode.

Ok work flow continues, but still wonder what corrupted that file. Maybe a new Extension I added a few days ago…maybe

If this happens to you, hope this helped you out like it did for me.