My blogging landscape
Apr. 10th, 2006 | 05:45 pm
- http://www.livejournal.com/ This is the host for my blog, it has its limitations for free accounts, but it got me started writing. In particular I am limited in the ways that I can change the look of my blog, like I can't add any static links in my left navigation column or a rss of my del.icio.us links.
- http://www.geocities.com I've been with geocities since 1996, before the dot.com bubble burst. It's free hosting. That's where I stick a simple frame page that I sometimes point people to instead of the blog. http://www.geocities.com/paynito/ It seems that they've removed ftp access from free accounts, I used to use it for file storage and transfer between computers. Of course now we have easier tools like a 1 gig sd card and
- File Storage: http://briefcase.yahoo.com and I love the gspace firefox extension that makes it easy to use your gmail account for file storage. Just stick that on the computers you use regularly.
- Mac OSX 10.4 Tiger, right? I don't live in the us so I miss out on alot of corporate propaganda that might remind me of my operating system's pet name. But I don't enjoy working on my win2k office machine near as much. I love exposé and that I can type "optione+e" to make a é, and can type ñ and ó. I have no idea other than that the alt key and some numbers are involved how to do this on windows, is it keycaps? My mother toungue is Spanglish, so these letters are important. Apple must understand since they live in California. When I stick my mouse to the top right corner of the desktop I can see all the windows I have open, it's faster than alt+tab, really.
- firefox it definitely deserves its own bullet point. Flock got me started blogging, but I quickly came back to firefox. It's the best. camino is cute, but I love the firefox extensions.
- del.icio.us I've got 435 bookmarks on del.icio.us right now. I would have gone crazy sticking those into folders in my bookmarks menu. I can bookmark anything that I ever think I might want to read or reference again. This is the can't miss part of web 2.0 for me. Oh, yeah, I can access my bookmarks from any computer anytime.
- Photos. Loved flickr, but kind of only your most recent 200 photos are easily available on the free account, so now I'm using zooomr^3. Both services have desktop applications that make it fast and easy to upload my photos, I can upload to flickr from inside iphoto. Much better than Yahoo! Photos. So after the upload is done I can view the pic and stick it into livejournal, with Qumana this step is also drag and drop.
- Writing the blog entries. Today I'm using Qumana. I also use pocketlj on my palm Tungsten E and Phoenix 1.9.4 OSX on my lombard. I have used avantblog for my blogspot page, but blogspot is mostly blocked in China.
- To high to get over it yeah, yeah. The great firewall of china is penetrable using proxys from http://www.peacefire.org/. So that's how I can see seditious sites like blogspot or the electronic freedom foundation, it might actually have been the eff's blogger's guide that turned me on to the proxy.
- Isnip, this is a multi-clip clipboard for OSX so I can get several links at once from firefox to stick into my blogpost instead of one at a time.
- ok, that's my blogging landscape. I was going to say stuff about cultural geography and not speaking the local languange so well and self expression or other such stuff. I hope I can win the contest. I'm still a ways away from 20 entries, but Qumana really is powerul and a joy to use.
Tags: lombard, g3, osX, macintosh, mac, blogging, paynito, china, nanjing, great firewall of china, great firewall, eff, landscape, isnip, firefox, tools
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