Blodget’s Blog

I use Google’s RSS feed reader on my iPod Touch to keep up to date on what’s new. Sometimes I want to share my findings with others. A good way to do this is to email posts to a Blogger blog and use Feedburner to let people subscribe to the blog by email.

My Blogger blog is called Jim’s Findings. Feel free to subscribe by email. You’ll get a daily email with all the things I find that day.

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I’m trying the Flickr Photo Album plug-in for WordPress. It makes a special page for your Flickr albums and photos right in your blog. You can see mine at http://blodget.net/blog/flickr_photos. The plug-in also adds a Photos tab in the Post entry area so you can insert a Flickr photo in your post like I’ve done here.

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Let’s see if this offline blog editor will work with my wordPress blog. It’s called “Bee” and is an example of a webapp written in adobe’s new “Air” application builder.

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I just added the free Snap service to this blog. It provides a small preview of links so you can see what you’re linking to before you click the link. Check it out by pointing to any link in the blog. It was very easy to install. All you have to do is sign up on their site by providing a URL to your blog and an email address and they give you the code to embed on your web page or blog. Since this is a WordPress blog I also downloaded the free WordPress plug-in, installed it, activated it, and set my unique 32 character key in the options and it worked. The service also works with Typepad and Blogger blogs.

Snap

What is Snap Preview Anywhere? Snap Preview Anywhere enables anyone visiting your site to get a glimpse of what other sites you’re linking to, without having to leave your site. By rolling over any link, the user gets a visual preview of the site without having to go there, thus eliminating wasted “trips” to linked sites.

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I just installed the advanced- wysiwyg plug-in and I am now using it for the first time to write a post. The toolbar has lots of new options and formatting features. I’m curious to see how the image insert features work.

I just went to my Flickr pictures and picked out this daisy. I pasted the URL into the image insert field and chose align left and it worked. Not bad. I also clicked on the image and then clicked the link icon to see if I can set a link for the image. I think it worked.

Here’s where I found the plug-in. Wow, that was cool. The link feature now let’s me choose whether to open the link in the same window or a new one.

I hate to push this too far before publishing the post but I just have to try switching to HTML view and back and then try spell checking. Wish me luck. Cool it all works!

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Today I added the “Subscribe by Email” feature to my sidebar. (See it over there on the right)? This makes it easy for people who haven’t yet seen the light about using RSS and aggregators to stay up-to-date with what’s new on my blog. Just type in your email address and click the “Subscribe Me!” button and, Kahbing, you’ll get an email message every time I add a new post. You’ll actually see the post in the email message with pictures and everything. This free service is provided by the good folks at FeedBlitz.com. Check ‘em out.

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Just checking the post by email feature. This time i installed the WP-
Cron Mail plug-in which should check for email posts every 15
minutes. This will automate the process so I don’t have to manually
verify each email post. Just email and 15 minutes later the post
appears. Cool.

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WordPress lets you create a post in an email client and send it to a
special email address. The email message gets converted to a post
with the subject field as the title and message becomes the body of
the post.

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Hi everybody. This is my first post on my new blog. So far so good. The installation was a snap and I’ve been playing with new themes and plug-ins.

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