A collection of photography and exploration focusing on Upstate South Carolina and beyond.
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Back last summer I wrote an article on this site complaining about triple tags and the clutter they create on tag clouds. The idea was that a tag cloud is meant to group items with similar characteristics. However, triple tags are meant to identify a specific item. They are often called "machine-readable" because they are … Read More “Flickr’s Machine Tags” »
Laura has decided that my career during retirement will be to take photographs, frame them, then try to sell them at booths in various festivals such as Art in the Park. OK, I’m glad she thinks my photos are that good. I, for one, think she’s a bit biased, and that most of the time … Read More “Retirement Career” »
Move over, Google. I think I’ve found a new search engine that is far more entertaining… Ms. Dewey
Lots going on in the technology world this week. Here are three items that deserve a quick mention… 1. The latest virus outbreak required us to patch several glaring security holes in the Windows XP operating system. Therefore, as Microsoft rolled out Vista for the business community this week, I couldn’t help but wonder how … Read More “Technology Changes” »
Last year at FETC I learned about the new browser Flock in one of the sessions by David Warlick. Warlick mentioned it again at EdTech this past fall, and I’m just now getting around to exploring its potential. Flock is based on the Mozilla Firefox browser, and has extensions especially tuned for Web 2.0. There … Read More “Flocking to Flock” »
I should have taken this as an omen. Yesterday as I approached my car, I took out my keys and my little thumb drive fell out of my pocket. I couldn’t help but wonder what would have happened if I had not seen it fall and if I had sensitive school data on that drive. … Read More “Securing Student Data” »
…at least, not this past weekend. I’m guessing the tech gods were angry for my mixing Linux with an xBox last weekend. Whatever, the reason, everything technology-related that I touched seemed to blow up on me this weekend. First, there is (was) my computer. I tried to update it to SP2, which managed to crash … Read More “Technology is not my friend” »
I can guarantee that topic alone will get me tons of hits on this site. Sorry – you won’t find directions here – just a description of my attempts to get mine setup. I always wondered about those geeks people that hacked various devices just so that they could run Linux on it. I couldn’t … Read More “Hacking the xBox” »
It was as I suspected. The new Flickr Maps application does not use EXIF data, but some proprietary format. If there is existing EXIF or GPS data for an image, Flickr can import it, but other than import it doesn’t use that data. This means that if an image is geotagged using Flickr’s handy map … Read More “More on Flickr Maps” »
Flickr has added a new mapping application to its list of imaging services. Since Flickr is a Yahoo company it uses the new Yahoo maps. Google may have an advantage over Yahoo with more accurate maps and integration with Google Earth. However Flickr does have a slick new interface and a cool map page for … Read More “Flickr Maps” »