Food, Glorious Food.

As I enjoy looking at recipes, iFoods, which won 3rd place in the Food section of the Web 2.0 awards list, was a website I could spend (waste) a lot of time looking at. There are iFoods recipes, members recipes and recipe categories. http://ifoods.tv/web/

I also looked at I'm Cooked, the first place winner, but that site didn't appeal. That seemed to be home made videos of people cooking sent to the web. Urbanspoon, the 2nd place winner, was quite different. That gives details of places to eat around the world, though it mainly covers the USA and Canada. London is covered and also Melbourne and Sydney. I looked at the Sydney site and that covers inner and outer areas of Sydney, gives price ranges and also types of food. The sidebar includes recent restaurant reviews from the Sydney Morning Herald.
http://www.urbanspoon.com/c/70/Sydney-restaurants.html

As I was still looking for the track 'A Long Black Veil' I thought I would also check out a couple of the Music winners. I couldn't figure out Mog, though. It said one could download for free but I couldn't see how it was done.

I also checked out Picasa, as we have that on our home PC and learnt about the new upgrade, so next time the message comes up to upgrade I shall say 'yes'. http://picasa.google.com/

You Tube

It is fascinating to see all the different videos on 'You Tube'. Broadband is wonderful. I can now download them in seconds, whereas before they stopped and started and my server usually cut me off before they had fully loaded. I went looking for Joan Baez singing 'A Long Black Veil' and got lots of videos of her singing, but not that song. Then I found a variety of artists singing the song, but not the version I like. What amazed me was that some of the videos were made long before the Web and You Tube. I eventually settled on one from the BBC announcing the forthcoming contestants for the upcoming programme 'Strictly Come Dancing' as a friend and I had recently been discussing it. Here is the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbQ1LTxHFjg

I couldn't embed it, but I was able to send it to my email and then I copied and pasted the link.

I looked at some of the Library videos and thought the one of the race around the library, finding information, was a good idea, especially as a way of children/young adults learning how to use the resources.

Medieval Festival, Prague

This looks interesting.  It seems as if it is somewhat like Microsoft Word but everything is available from the toolbars, so may be easier to use for formatting and editing a document.  I am going to attempt to transfer some pictures from my computer.  Watch this space!  .

 

Zoho, Goodo!

This is very similar to Microsoft Word but as some computers don't have that installed, this is a good option. I liked the fact that everything to do with formatting , editing and decorating etc can be found on the toolbars. I somehow managed to make a collage in Picasa and then export it to Zoho. Took me a while and had to put it on the desktop first. Hope I can now delete it from there without losing it completely. I did notice that as I wrote, my picture seemed to shrink and I haven't got all of it in. Also I tried to add a smiley emotion to my introduction after I had inserted the picture and the picture disappeared. Thank goodness for the 'undo' button.

Here is the link below.

http://writer.zoho.com/index.do

When I checked back on this link all I got was the link to the Zoho page. After a round of telephone calls I finally discovered that I could publish what I had done to my blog. I did this and it still didn't appear in my blog. After much too-do I finally found it in the drafts and then published it. However it has gone on as a completely separate blog instead of being attached to this one.

This looks interesting. It seems as if it is somewhat like Microsoft Word but everything is available from the toolbars, so may be easier to use for formatting and editing a document. I am going to attempt to transfer some pictures from my computer. Watch this space! .

Home Library List

This was most enjoyable to look at and if I had more time I would have liked to have looked at the reviews that people have posted on some of the books in my list. Maybe one day I will go back and catalogue all the books in my bookcase. They are a very rum lot and as the books are on the shelves two deep, I am sure I have forgotten half of what I have. I have looked at this site peviously and mentioned it to people in my book club, who were also very impressed.
The link to my list is: Link is http://www.librarything.com/catalog/tperkins17

Roll yer own

I didn't find I had too much trouble with this exercise. I just forgot that I had to create a post in my blog with the link to the searchroll and then send the link of my blogpost. I just sent the link of my searchroll. The advantage of having a search roll in Rollyo is like having a list in 'favourites' except that the list can then be accessed from any computer plus it can be organised according to topic. ie all the health websites or all the travel wesites.

Link to searchroll: http://rollyo.com/search.html?q=greece&sid=454522

Image Generators

The first time I tried this I thought I had managed very well. I found an image and copied and pasted it to my blog. Unfortunately when I checked the end result I found I had the title and a whole lot of code, but no picture. Probably just as well as it was meant to be a Black Forest Cake and that would have made me feel peckish everytime I opened my blog.

Then I got some help and with two of us working through it managed to get the pictue across to my blog in the form of a jigsaw.
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/viewpostcard.php?id=82116-6f439

I used Letter James to get the picture and FD Toys to make a jigsaw.