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In the picture … online photo editing

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Posted in Building my websites, Interesting stuff | No Comments »

Making your snaps crackle and pop It's amazing how quickly things change in the online world. When I started making websites 6 years ago, you had to buy a bit of software like Photoshop at great expense and there wasn't really a ...

Video and pictures direct from phone to blog

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 Posted in Interesting stuff | No Comments »

Posting video directly to you blog If you haven't seen it already, take a look at my previous post to see the demo of embedded video on the page. This was done by sending video directly from a mobile phone to ShoZu.com, ...

This is a video demo sent via ShoZu.com

Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in Interesting stuff | No Comments »

Video001.avi, originally uploaded by webcumbriaman. I'm currently experimenting with ShoZu.com, which allows me to post video directly from my mobile phone to Flikr, then to publish that video directly to this blog. This is a taster, I'll tell you how it's done ...

One you might not have heard of for video on websites …

Sunday, June 15th, 2008 Posted in Great new URLs | No Comments »

An alternative to You Tube? When most people think of embedding video in a page, they'd probably opt for You Tube or maybe even Flickr now it's moved beyond just images. However, I've been using a site for some time that - ...

E107 … a CMS system with bells on it!

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 Posted in Building my websites, Stuff passed on by friends | 1 Comment »

Great websites avoiding HTML You'll have already worked out that I'm a big user of Fantastico and PHP scripts, but a friend recently discovered a new php/CMS system which ist't available via Fantastico ... it's called E107. CMS means 'Content Management System' ...