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another new project

Paul Howard — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:14:00 +0000

The original project that the wife and I have been working on is taking far longer to set up than we thought. In the meantime, however, I have set up a new site that is set to host short audio clips from/for my daughter.

Take a look and feel free to leave comments at the very short story.

new project (update)

Paul Howard — Sat, 17 May 2008 16:45:04 +0000

Running very behind on getting the new project up and running. The domain is registered, wordpress all set up and working.

Still need to get the template finished and the first version of the project running.

Where do people find the time for all these things outside of work/family?

publishing blog posts through google …

Paul Howard — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:26:14 +0000

Google Docs goes offline and lets you publish blog posts.

I had no idea, until today, that you could use Google Docs to publish blog posts. This is actually a test posting to see how well it work with text and images.

So here is the pic of me I use for avatars etc.

Really looking forward to getting access to the offline version of Google Docs as announced today. You already have RSS access offline. I wonder which will be next, Calendar or Gmail?

new project coming soon

Paul Howard — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:51:49 +0000

Not had time to do any updates here in a while. Been working on a new project with my wife that is due to launch in the next two to three months. Exciting stuff.

Details of the project and the official launch date will follow soon.

tagging problems pretty much solved

Paul Howard — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:27:26 +0000

A few days ago I posted saying that I was in two minds about local tagging as the tags didn’t get copied up to various online services.

Well, today I noticed that an updated Picasa Uploader that was released last October now adds the ability for you to duplicate iPhoto tags (or keywords as they call them) into Picasa Web Albums.

I tested it out and it works very well. Nice one Google.

online or offline tagging

Paul Howard — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:21:47 +0000

Where do you do your tagging?

Tagging has become an invaluable way to help us organise and search our data but, as is usual in the IT world, none of the tagging systems work together.

I have been using a macbook as my main computer for just over a year now and have been delaying using any of the spotlight tagging as this is OS specific and if I decided to move to Linux all of my work will be lost. I have recently also switched from using Flickr as my main way of storing images on the web over to Google’s Picasa Web. There was no way of copying all the tags across so I had to recreate them all.

This brings me to the question in hand. Where do you, or indeed should you, be tagging? Do you find it easier to tag locally and recreate any tags on whatever web services you use or do you only tag online and leave local searching down to the good old methods of structured folders and remembering where you put that picture of Grandad asleep at the Christmas party?