I am Flickr'ed, too!

OK, end of another beautiful week in Ireland. Spent some time Stumbling. Again. And, as seems to happen so often I landed on a photography site (I set Photography as one of my preferences in Stumbler), so I decided that if they are going to flaunt it, I might as well join them. So I did. Some of my many images of travels across Ireland are now available on Flickr for your enjoyment. I will upload some more over the week-end.

Having had to spend two days last week reinstalling Windows XP and reloading many of my programmes, one of the problems that I suddenly faced was synchronising my Sansa MP3 player with Windows Media Player this week. So, I decided that I definitely did not like the new interface that Microsoft had put into it as what used to be a simple process had now become painful when I wanted to update my Sansa with my latest podcasts. Must be a byproduct of some in-house genius trying to make it more Zune-able. So off I went in search of a simple tool that would allow me to sync again. I could set up Briefcase on my desktop, but I was now highly annoyed with Big Brother. And I found something very simple to set up and use - GoodSync. Moreover, best of all, it is free, gratis and for nothing! My kind of tool. Why could the rest of life not be so simple. First I told it which folder I wanted to sync (My Downloaded Podcasts) and what the folder was I wanted to sync to. Selected my Sansa MP3 player with ease and the Music folder on it. I then selected that I wanted it to sync whenever I connected my Sansa (the only reason I connect it to the computer is when I want to sync). And off it went! Brilliant! I can highly recommend it.

Then, next I had been browsing around some other blogsters. Following my earlier overview of Christoffer Allan of Alactrity's page, was similar site that did a summary overview of video websites - the DVGuru! A great overview to get a quick summary overview of the most popular sites and their good and bad points. I've commented on a number of them already, but this is just a neat summary.

Next, given all my comments anout photography and my trip to Flickr - here is the page and photographs that did it. Absolutely gorgeous images with clean crisp colourful images. I have linked it to the slideshow so you can see them all.

One of the problems that you have if you're in Ireland, is that although Amazon will happily sell me books, CD's etc. However, when it gets to electronics - nada. Nothing. Will not ship to Ireland. However, there is a site that has great cheap prices for electronics and ships to Ireland - Pixmania! They are present in a number of countries. I checked prices for camera's and laptops, and they compared extremely well to the local discount stores and they ship for delivery within days. That was great! More online window shopping for me to do - drool over some great cameras whilst I battle to make up my mind.

Then I found a curious little add on for Firefox which I will explore a bit more - called BlogRovr. Your faithfull cyberdog that fetches blogs that match what you're browsing. Haven't done mcuh with it just yet.

And the reason I haven't been able to get round it? I am back on Virb. I decided to give it a bash, and guess what? I got it to work tonight after right clicked and messed around with the settings. I right clicked on the video, clicked Settings, clicked the Folder Icon, changed the space it can use to 10Mb, clicked OK, hit refresh, then right clicked on the video and clicked Play. After that it was plain sailing - they all work! Watched a trailer, and really enjoyed it. The quality was excellent (I have a 3Mbps wireless broadband connection at home), and the size was more comfortable than most other sites I have visited recently. More important, Matt from Virb came back today, not having given up on me, and said they were working on it. I was most delighted to tell him I got it to work! It streamed great and the buffering worked very well. So I decided I might as well join it and test it more. I did. JeremyNel is now officially on Virb. I have linked in this Blog, as well as my Flickr account. I must admit, I kind of like it. I can understand why Leo Laporte and Amber McArthur on Twit.tv liked it. I think, like StumbleUpon.com, this can become one of my favourites.

OK, Friday night, I am tired, so that is it for tonight. There is still so much I want to share with you, but it will just have to wait. I will make some more time over the week-end!