Seems like every six months or so I have to help one of my kids get their pictures uploaded to Zooomr and since the last time we’ve changed computers and things don’t seem to work as their supposed to. Here’s a direct quote from Zooomr’s forum on how to get jUploadr working on XP with Zooomr. And note that these instructions point to an alpha version of jUploadr but this is the only one that’s worked for us.
Quick tutorial:
0. First of all, you need to install Java: http://www.java.com/en/
1. Download jUploadr alpha: http://dfn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/juploadr/jUploadr-1.2alpha1-win32_x86.zip (Windows version)
2. Unzip it (on Windows XP just double-click the zip file and copy everything inside, e.g. to My Documents directory)
3. Run jUploadr.exe
4. Choose Edit -> Account -> New account on Zooomr (or something similar, I have Polish version and somehow I can’t change language to English)
5. jUploadr asks for authorization, click on Authorize…
6. Page will open in your web browser, saying “jUploadr wants to link to your Zooomr Account.”, click on ALLOW ACCESS
7. You should see a page saying “You have successfully authorized the application jUploadr.”
8. Return to jUploadr and click End authorization process
9. Now you should be able to upload photos from jUploadr
My thanks to siriwan on the Zooomr forum for these fine instructions.
Quicksilver lovers who are sick of arrow-ing down QS’s list of suggestions for a keyword can manually set an item as the default. For example, if you want typing “tex” to open TextWrangler and not TextEdit, Ctrl+click on TextWrangler on the suggestion list and choose “Set as Default for TEX.” Quicksilver’s pretty smart about figuring out what you want most of the time based on usage frequency, but for those rare cases when it doesn’t, this’ll do the trick.
I’ve been enjoying my used 10D for about a year now and this is a collection of information on the camera that I’ll be adding to occasionally mostly for my own reference, to help me learn and make better use of the 10D.
Upgraded my MacBook to 2 gig of ram yesterday. I’m noticing things launch faster and run faster–everything is generally faster. That was a cheap and easy performance boost.
If you have an occasional Microsoft Word document or RTF formatted document you want to convert to clean HTML–and I mean HTML that has no more than standard formatting applied such as bold and italics but no font or color declarations–and you have to get those documents on the internet, then it’s hard to find a good tool for easily converting those documents. Having switched to using a MAC full-time I’ve been looking for a good process for converting such documents to HTML for posting through the WordPress blog interface. The article at macosxhints.com, Convert formatted text to valid HTML using TextEdit, is just what I was looking for. This is a simple process that uses TextEdit on the Mac to cleanly and easily format text for the web.
Tagging my bookmarks has been wonderful. Today I discovered Punakea for Mac OS X which looks very promising in that it will allow me to tag the mountain of files I seem to dig through every day looking for the one I need at the moment. Finding files can be irritating to say the least. Punakea looks like it just may ease some of the frustration of finding files.
“Punakea is a little app trying to help you cope with the day-to-day struggle of managing your files. Designed to complement Spotlight, it allows you to tag your files and bookmarks, freeing you of the strict hierarchy of the Finder’s folder structure.”
I try to get things done (gtd), I really do. But when I can’t do it right away or I’m trying to do something else and an important item needs to be placed on my list of things to do I want a quick way to add it to my list so I can get back to the task at hand. Enter Quicksilver and the append to a text file from anywhere tip from 43 Folders.
