May 17, 2006
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Mar 29, 2006
Never buy an Epson Printer
FYI: I have an Epson RX500 printer/scanner combo unit. It has six individual ink cartridges. If you run out of magenta ink you can no longer print or scan anything until you've replaced that ink cartridge. You can't even print a black text document! Brilliant concept Epson, make your product stop functioning entirely until customer spends more money on your overpriced and ridiculously over packaged ink cartridges. Here's an idea, try not pissing me off so much that I tell the 1500-2000 citizens of the inkernets who pass by my blog every day to NOT buy your products.
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Feb 24, 2006
Feb 23, 2006
Manage multiple email accounts in Gmail
You can now choose the reply-to address in Gmail for your various email accounts. My public email account (the one I use to sign up for stuff etc) forwards all email to my private account. This new feature now allows me to choose what the reply to address will be for all my email accounts. So if someone sends an email to thelastminute@gmail.com and I respond to that email from my private account I can choose what the reply-to address will be. If you forward other email accounts to your Gmail you'll want to use this.
Feb 19, 2006
Right Click Upload to Flickr
If you're using OSX Tiger and Flickr you might be interested in the ability to send images to Flickr by right clicking and hitting send. This is useful if you use Flickr for image hosting for your blog or you just want a really quick way to upload images to Flickr.
- Download Fraser Speirs' Flickr Automator Uploader (direct link to .zip)
Unzip and follow the steps in the Readme
Open Automator (in your applications folder)
Add the Flickr Action to your workflow (you can search flickr and it should show up if you did #2 correctly)
- Use your flickr login (email@server.com) as the username and add some tags and privacy settngs.
- Click File, Save As Plug-in (name it Save to Flickr or whatever) and choose finder in the drop down menu.
- Now right click on an image(s) anywhere in the finder and choose Automator -> Save to Flickr (whatever you named it) and your images are sent off to Flickr with the tags/privacy settings you chose.
This automator action can be used in a number of interesting ways. For example I made a timelapse with it. You can combine it with other automator actions to do whatever you need. You could use Automator to crop 100 images and then upload to them all to Flickr at the end. If you want to loop your automator actions you can use this.
If you want to take some screenshots and upload them to Flickr use these shortcuts:
- ⌘-shift-3 (whole screen)
⌘-shift-4-drag box (whatever you select)
Images are then saved to your desktop as Picture 1, Picture 2... Now its as easy as right clicking them to upload to Flickr...
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