I was looking last night at how many places I could use my openID to sign in with. Apart from BackPack it’s not a lot but looking in flickr it seems they want to make their own ’secure’ login (a login is only as good as the password, regardless of what little gold awards you decorate buttons with) and you will end up with a Yahoo login to all their services. That annoys me about Google but at least their pages aren’t dog-ugly and they are, you know, useful. Couple of tips there for Yahoo. I have had problems logging in to flickr before which has had me swearing and this morning I got exactly the same. I do not want to fight a login, I do not want to jump through the Yahoo hoops they have. So screw yahoo and screw flickr.
Smugmug. Costs a few $ more a year (but it’s still only about 5p a day). I get a decent url. I get a tool that imports all my flickr photos without me doing anything. I get an uploader tool just like flickr’s. If I watched them apparently there are stats and such (but I never look at stats) so overall that works for me. It means I never ever have to use anything Yahoo own again. It means I can dump all of it. It took several pages of errors to delete all the photos I had at flickr but in the end my page became a photo-free zone.
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Had a look through the Photography images, very nice!!
Really like the ‘WordPress Moleskine’ one.
Thanks!
That moleskine one took many shots and became the start of me really wanting a better camera. I know I can get the DOF better.
I have some red glass though - I plan on a heap of those to experiment.
I found a site the other day with some photographs on it (http://justcreativedesign.com/2008/03/22/56-creative-photography/)
The apple one with the staples stood out and I want to give it a try. Also, the one with the water droplets can be really effective. You could give it a try, but put the water drop over an image (maybe the wordpress logo?) and it magnifies it.
Loads and loads of ideas, you could have fun with red glass :-)
It’s always the simple ideas that come out the best.
Two important words missing from the Smugmug “Get To Know Us” Tour: Free Bee.
Do you have to be a member of SmugMug to see the locked galleries?
Jenn - locked galleries have passwords chosen by their owners. You can have different ones - like wp posts really.
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