Thing #68: Filtering Flickr

1. FlickrCC

Keyword searches Flickr to bring up a patchwork window of pictures tagged with the search term. I searched for the term chocolate and this is what I ended up with...

All of the images are copyright with Creative Commons licensing, which encourages sharing. There is also an option to search commercial images as well.

2. Tag Galaxy

Now this one is a lot of fun though the documentation, as the author points out, is very basic. I started by searching for chocolate and when it brought up the matches I also got the option of refining my search by cakes, desserts, cream, cookies, etc...

This would be an awesome tool if it had the option of searching by creative commons attribution.
Here is my result for chocolate...

If, as I said, there was a search by cc option then this would quite likely be something I would use a lot. it would make a great display tool - all book covers by jane Austen for eg.

I also found tag galaxy more to my liking search wise although flickrcc had the major advantage of the creative commons search. I would probably use both of these again - as I can see work related potential in both of them.

Uploading the results to the blog

Basically I did a screen dump and then cropped them in paint (and one in picnik), saved them as jpgs and uploaded them that way.

There may well be an easier way - however this one worked for me...

Thing # 67 Stress savers

1. Dial a human. It's American (which is a shame as it would be good to know which buttons to push quickly to get a real person at the other end of the phone instead of a menu of numbers to select from.)




2. Custom Guide. This one's a keeper. It's a series of pdf quick (cheat sheet type) guides for Microsoft products for PC, and for Mac products. The sheets are not designed to be manuals but rather a reminder type (what does F4 do again - that sort of thing). If you work @ Boroondara think the 2 page tips & tricks guide we got when we changed to Outlook. I've already printed off the one for Evernote.
Suspect I'll be using this site again.


3. Where is your username registered? This had potential as I have *several* different user names on many different sites. You enter your user name and click cjeck and the site goes through and checks that user name on about 70 sites. I guess if your user name is truly unique then it would be more useful but I would use this more for fun than for anything else. I tried my most unique login name (which I have at gmail, yahoo, hotmail) and it was already taken on 51 of the 69 sites (and most of them were not me - so I guess it's not as unique as I thought!). I doubt I'll use this one again.


Of the three custom guide is certainly the most useful on a personal level and on a professional level. It's a site I'll certainly be recommending to our pc users (especially the novice users) as I think many of them would find it extrememly useful.

Definitely a site for the borrower toolkit.