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Buffy blogged by Shozu

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

Posted by ShoZu

One of the appeals of the Nokia N95 was its ability to be used to send photo’s directly to the web using Nokia Lifeblog. Lifeblog allows you to transmit images to a Typepad blog. The downside of this is that Typepad is a subscription service. As I’ve already got several perfectly good Blogger blogs on the go, this option didn’t really fit the bill.

After a spot of googling for N95 and blogger, I came across ShoZu. ShoZu allows you to send pictures directly to a host of social networking sites including You Tube, Fickr, Facebook, Picassa, Windows Live Spaces and of course, Blogger. Go to the ShoZu website for a full list. No fees, greater flexibility and mobile blogging to go. Fantastic. As an experiment I blogged the above picture of my cat Buffy.

Now if young Dave had a phone with ShoZu installed he could have blogged his sighting of Neil Lennon in a pub tonight realtime. I hope he wasn’t drinking too much, that might explain our recent run of bad form!

If you’ve got a phone with web access check it out.

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Using a Picasa Picture as your Blogger Profile Photo

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007


You’d have thought, that with Picasa being a Google product, the task of uploading a photo from a Picasa album to your blogger profile would be relatively straightforwards.

Well it’s not too onerous a task, but you need to know a few things to do it.

  • First you need the image you want to use loaded into Picasa.
  • Once you’ve done this, view the photo in Picasa and click on Link to this Photo.
  • You’d have thought that you would copy the URL displayed under “Paste link in email or IM” and used this in your blogger profile, but alas no. Instead copy the HTML shown under “HTML to embed in website“.
  • Paste it into notepad or some other suitable editor, then copy the URL shown between the quotes of the href.
  • Now bring up the Blogger Dashboard and click on Edit Profile.
  • Scroll down to Photograph and paste in the URL you copied earlier.
  • Press Save Profile

Huzzah!!! You now have your chosen Picasa photo as your profile picture. I’m sure Google will get their act together sometime and make this process easier. In the meantime however the above instructions tide you over till that day comes.

Your Picasa picture may not be a Picasso, but you’d better pick a good one for your profile.

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