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Adding Pictures to Flickr

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I need to add pictures to flickr for them to show up in the new little widget I have here, so what I needed was an easy to way to get pictures off my phone and on to flickr.  I went to the same place I always go when I have questions about what is and is not possible concerning my phone and that is Krhainos.

He let me know that there is a really simple application that sends my pictures to flickr with relative ease. I can pick pictures off of my phone or send them as soon as I take them. This program is Shozu. Now I can take pictures of the places I go and the things I see and you can all see them as well. I think that’s really cool.

I know Agent2690’s blog is made up almost entirely of pictures with very little, to no actual typing. I always sorted of wanted that reversed for my own blog. Now with a pictures section and this widget I think I’m getting close to that reality.

Sidebar Attraction

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I was reading through some of my friends blogs, and I noticed that Rombus added a flickr.com "widget" or whatever you want to call it to the sidebar of his blog. Now I just signed up for the site myself, even though many of my friends have actually had an account for a very long time. I also downloaded a program for my phone that allows me to upload photos directly from my phone to flickr every time I take a picture. It only made sense that I should add something similar to my own site.

I don’t know if wordpress, which is what I’m using to run this site, is dying or maybe just has an extraordinarily bad community, but it actually took quite a lot of work to locate a widget that would work. I know they are still updating wordpress, so someone is still working on this thing and improving it, but the widgets, which are supposed to be a great easy way to add things to the wordpress site, are lacking in almost every way. If you start your search for the flickr widget on the wordpress site you will be confused as it links to a site that hasn’t been updated in several months and actually provides one broken link and a widget that breaks the latest version of wordpress. That means that you should probably start with google.

I do have a warning about google. "Someone" has been spamming sites with a "how to" video on this subject, and I say "someone" because I know exactly who it is since they say so at the beginning of the video, but I have no intention on naming or linking to this rubbish. The problem is that this 10 minute video, and it really is the longest 10 minutes of your life, goes on and on without actually saying anything or helping in the slightest. I know now why you have to go to college and take courses on teaching, and that reason is because otherwise you will do a horrifically bad job at getting a point across and waste everyone’s time.

I finally found a working widget, which I have down to the left now. I made some slight edits to it. I think the author of the widget was being just a tad too prideful, so I removed his name from the bottom of the widget, and I have to say that’s the first time I’ve seen someone put their name on their creation where it is actually going to show up on your site. I intend on taking more pictures, sending them to the site, and then I’ll probably move that widget up so it’s up top for everyone to see when I’ve got a collection of photos that is worth seeing.