A dessert to try:
Grasshopper Pie | The Pioneer Woman Cooks | Ree Drummond
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Cutez!
Zomg, cute! Wander away from Hootsuite for a while and come back to find a cute sleepy owl.
I'm so-so on Hootsuite. Still use it when I want to post to multiple accounts. It doesn't work as smoothly as I was hoping when switching between multiple computers. Wouldn't be a problem if I checked my accounts more often of course. :P And there's just something about using the services from their original sites. Couldn't be that they were made to work that way, nah, that can't be it.
Blogger vs Wordpress
(and Tumblr too while we're at it)
Decided to try out Blogger and compare to Wordpress since Wordpress tends to strip HTML code and I was a bit annoyed by this. Alright, very annoyed by this. Semi-pissed perhaps. Tumblr got tossed into the mix as well a bit.
Exporting from Wordpress was alright. Importing into Blogger was the catch. (The reverse worked fine if I recall correctly.) Apparently Blogger does not care for Wordpress' format. Fortunately I found a solution:
http://www.manvstech.com/2010/10/overcome-bx-tjg9ds-blogger-import-error.html
What I like about Blogger, ie *.blogspot.com:
Allows you to have 'followers' like Tumblr.com. Allows HTML code without stripping code for images and such (such as for the headers in the table I wanted to make). The gadgets were better, easier to me. As far as I can tell there's no upload limit. There are multiple options for uploading an image: Upload (from hard drive), From this blog, From Picasa Web Albums, or From a URL. Customization! It's easy, simple. Lets me do what I want!
Dislikes:
Not on Hootsuite (which I have been playing with; is on other services). No 'Press this' button, both Tumblr and Wordpress have this feature. Import feature kinda sucks. Wordpress has a prettier GUI.
Tumblr is very simple, almost doesn't compare. No import/export. Doesn't have the Visual vs HTML views for posts. Pages aren't much good, can't really customize easily (unless you know how to code). On the other hand, has tons of templates and designs. Dashboard, which is what they call their GUI, is very, very nice. Does have a browser 'Share on Tumblr' shortcut just like Wordpress' 'Press this' shortcut. Overall, good for picture or simple daily blogs.
All three do allow creating multiple blogs with one account.
Overall:
Going with Wordpress because I AM LAZY. The 'Press this' button is what did it in. I love the customization and ease of Blogger, but I'm not going to use it because I am too lazy to go to the site and click, click, click to post.
UPDATE: Okay, turns out I was wrong. Blogger does indeed have a quick-post button-shortcut. Importing from Wordpress to Blogger still sucks though.
Decided to try out Blogger and compare to Wordpress since Wordpress tends to strip HTML code and I was a bit annoyed by this. Alright, very annoyed by this. Semi-pissed perhaps. Tumblr got tossed into the mix as well a bit.
Exporting from Wordpress was alright. Importing into Blogger was the catch. (The reverse worked fine if I recall correctly.) Apparently Blogger does not care for Wordpress' format. Fortunately I found a solution:
http://www.manvstech.com/2010/10/overcome-bx-tjg9ds-blogger-import-error.html
What I like about Blogger, ie *.blogspot.com:
Allows you to have 'followers' like Tumblr.com. Allows HTML code without stripping code for images and such (such as for the headers in the table I wanted to make). The gadgets were better, easier to me. As far as I can tell there's no upload limit. There are multiple options for uploading an image: Upload (from hard drive), From this blog, From Picasa Web Albums, or From a URL. Customization! It's easy, simple. Lets me do what I want!
Dislikes:
Not on Hootsuite (which I have been playing with; is on other services). No 'Press this' button, both Tumblr and Wordpress have this feature. Import feature kinda sucks. Wordpress has a prettier GUI.
Tumblr is very simple, almost doesn't compare. No import/export. Doesn't have the Visual vs HTML views for posts. Pages aren't much good, can't really customize easily (unless you know how to code). On the other hand, has tons of templates and designs. Dashboard, which is what they call their GUI, is very, very nice. Does have a browser 'Share on Tumblr' shortcut just like Wordpress' 'Press this' shortcut. Overall, good for picture or simple daily blogs.
All three do allow creating multiple blogs with one account.
Overall:
Going with Wordpress because I AM LAZY. The 'Press this' button is what did it in. I love the customization and ease of Blogger, but I'm not going to use it because I am too lazy to go to the site and click, click, click to post.
UPDATE: Okay, turns out I was wrong. Blogger does indeed have a quick-post button-shortcut. Importing from Wordpress to Blogger still sucks though.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
HTML5 Video Available on the Web – October Update
HTML5 Video Available on the Web – October Update.
Wooo! Not that I'm an iFan. It's that I absolutely hate and loathe Adobe Flash - Flash player, Shockwave flash and whatever the hell else they want to call it. It crashed my Chrome browser (admittedly on an old computer) all the damn time. And not just one tab! The whole thing! Die adobe die!
Wooo! Not that I'm an iFan. It's that I absolutely hate and loathe Adobe Flash - Flash player, Shockwave flash and whatever the hell else they want to call it. It crashed my Chrome browser (admittedly on an old computer) all the damn time. And not just one tab! The whole thing! Die adobe die!
Connecting Twitter and Facebook
Like I've mentioned, I like web apps. I switch between computers and devices all the time so something that has to be installed on everything (and may not even be supported on all of them) is unappealing to me.
I could easily connect everything using something like Digsby. Which is nice on a new computer. But a bit of a hog, especially on a shitty very old netbook and slow internet connection. Drove me up the wall.
So how do I connect my social networks, say Facebook and Twitter? (I really don't use my Myspace any more which is sad. But that's not so much due to it - yes, yes, people have ugly things on it but I like choice and being able to color sites as I wish instead of all white and minimal blue - as it is due to the majority of my social circle moving to Facebook.)
One of the best search results I've found for this: http://mashable.com/2009/05/25/twitter-to-facebook/
Unfortunately it is outdated. Some apps no longer exist. Some have gotten replaced. Some only go one way (post twitter to facebk, but not facebk to twitter). One is just for phones, I don't have a nice phone and wouldn't want to do all my posts from there anyways.
So what I end up doing? Currently I am testing out HootSuite. It is more for corps/businesses than personal use. Can add Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, Ping, WordPress, MySpace, and Foursquare apparently. Couple skin options. Can select which accounts I want to post updates to. Nifty, but a bit information-overwhelming to see it all on one page in multiple streams. We'll see how I like this. And how long it lasts...Maybe I'll get bored or annoyed and search for something new?
I could easily connect everything using something like Digsby. Which is nice on a new computer. But a bit of a hog, especially on a shitty very old netbook and slow internet connection. Drove me up the wall.
So how do I connect my social networks, say Facebook and Twitter? (I really don't use my Myspace any more which is sad. But that's not so much due to it - yes, yes, people have ugly things on it but I like choice and being able to color sites as I wish instead of all white and minimal blue - as it is due to the majority of my social circle moving to Facebook.)
One of the best search results I've found for this: http://mashable.com/2009/05/25/twitter-to-facebook/
Unfortunately it is outdated. Some apps no longer exist. Some have gotten replaced. Some only go one way (post twitter to facebk, but not facebk to twitter). One is just for phones, I don't have a nice phone and wouldn't want to do all my posts from there anyways.
So what I end up doing? Currently I am testing out HootSuite. It is more for corps/businesses than personal use. Can add Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, Ping, WordPress, MySpace, and Foursquare apparently. Couple skin options. Can select which accounts I want to post updates to. Nifty, but a bit information-overwhelming to see it all on one page in multiple streams. We'll see how I like this. And how long it lasts...Maybe I'll get bored or annoyed and search for something new?
Friday, October 29, 2010
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