It’s News to Me

Flock's news reader, originally uploaded by CaptQuirk.

This screenshot illustrates Flock's new implementation of its RSS news reader, called "My Newspaper." The icon to call up the sidebar is designated by the red arrow pointing to the iconbar. In the list of RSS feeds, the bold font indicates unread items on that particular feed.

The photo is being posted, this time, using Flickr's Blog This option, so I am doing further testing to see whether it will post successfully with the Flickr tool.

I have changed the theme so that I can test whether doing so will permit me to post pictures here. So again, I’ll see if I can get the photo of “My Newspaper” from my Flickr site to post.

technorati tags: Flock, test

The lastest version of Flock, soon to be released in beta and codenamed "Cardinal," has improved the way RSS feeds are handled. The feed reader in Flock is called My Newspaper, and it is represented by an icon in the icon bar that looks like a newspaper (what else?) and is positioned just to the left of the icon for starring a favorite (which, in Flock's terminology, equates to marking a site as a favorite).

It was reasonably instinctive to me how to open the My Newspaper sidebar (just click the My Newspaper icon), but how to add a feed to the newspaper didn't seem as immediately obvious. So once I figured out how to do it, I decided to record a short video and upload it to YouTube to illustrate the process.

If you'd like to view the video, click here.

Update 4/30/06: If I had done a bit more research before posting, I might have found the explanation of how to subscribe to feeds in the specifications for the Cardinal distribution of Flock. But like so many others, I first see if I can do something without reading the directions, and only when that fails do I turn to reading the instructions.

technorati tags: video, Flock, RSS, Feedreader

Downtown Louisville, originally uploaded by Dr Reelgood.

Mike’s family visited Louisville, KY, over the weekend for Madison’s Lacrosse game, and while there, he shot this picture of their most famous product (except perhaps for Cassius Clay, aka Muhammad Ali).

Flowering Cherry tree, originally uploaded by CaptQuirk.

This picture, which shows what I think is a Flowering Cherry tree, is one of the sights that greet me on my daily walk for exercise here in The Colonies. Scenes like this and others in the area is one reason it is more fun for me to walk through the neighborhood than it is to walk on a treadmill. Each day I can see how many more buds have bloomed and how close the arrival of Spring is. This is my favorite time of the year.

Given that most digital cameras give you the ability to capture video clips, most of us can now create a video and frequently we want to share those videos. Unfortunately, the file size of some of these videos is too large to email easily, particularly if some of the recipients of your intended video don’t have a broadband connection.

Whenever there is a need such as this, someone is usually eager to meet it, and that is just what the service YouTube.com does. This link to one of their videos of a “Call for Help” show explains more about the service.

technorati tags: video sharing, free service

Connor’s Cap, originally uploaded by Dr Reelgood.

Connor Michael Nelson is approaching 10 months old now (on March 1), and he’s already getting into the family tradition of playing with what Carole used to call “the seasonal ball.” If he turns out to be a basketball player, however, he’ll be the first male in the family with any skill at playing that game. However, I think this photo of him is really cute, so I wanted to share it with you.

Googer-Hill Family Easter, 2005, originally uploaded by FEDGIRL55.

My cousin, Pat Hill, posted this picture on her Flickr site of the gathering of the Googer and Hill clans at Easter 2005. It’s good to see her posting some of her pictures on Flickr again. Here’s her identification of the crew (with some additions by me in parentheses):

Sofa, left to right, Patty Hill, Georgia Googer (Hank’s daugher), Jimmy Googer (Hank’s son), Natosha Googer (Patrick’s wife). Standing, left to right, Brad Hill (Pat’s son), Julia Googer (Hank’s wife), Hank Googer, Justice Googer (Patrick and Natosha’s son), Patrick Googer, and Mary Googer (the mother of Hank and Patrick).

I tried to install the Flock’d version of Filterset.G from Outraged-artists.com, but I keep getting this error.

Can anyone tell me what’s up with that? Here is the message in the original size.

And while I’m about it, is there a way to determine the size of the image that is displayed when it is drug from the Flickr site into a post using the Flock blog editor without having to go to the source to edit that? If not, there should be in my opinion.Thanks for any help anyone could offer.

technorati tags: Flock, error message

Flock’s photo browser, originally uploaded by CaptQuirk.

This photo shows the so-called Photo Browser toolbar in the latest version of Flock. The drop down list, indicated by the red arrow, lists all your contacts on Flickr and once you click on one of them, that person’s latest photos are displayed across the top. If you wish to load one of the photos into a browser window, you just click on the photo at the top.  You can see a larger version of this photo, if you prefer.