How to get jUploadr connected to Zooomr

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.

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How to set Quicksilver’s default selection for a command

This is one of those tips I use so little in Quicksilver that I keep forgetting it. Here’s how to set a default selection for a command in Quicksilver thanks to Lifehacker

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.

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Mastering the Only Five Camera Settings

Great tips for making use of the different settings on that digital camera of yours: Mastering the Only Five Camera Settings

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Four photography tips

From recent Paxton Prints News feeds

  1. Ten Tips for the Absolute Photoshop CS2 Beginner
  2. Leading Lines in Photo Composition
  3. Take better candids with digital camera
  4. Sunset Photography Tips and Techniques
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Premium WordPress Themes contest

There’s a very good looking premium WordPress themes give-away contest going on over at WordPress Theme Designer. Check out the details here…

Prizes for the Premium Themes Contest by WordPress Theme Designer!
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LiquidCD easily burns CD’s and DVD’s on your Mac

Get LiquidCD if you need a great piece of freeware that burns CDs and DVDs built for Mac OS X.

LiquidCD can:

  • Burns MP3, AAC or QuickTime audio to an audio CD
  • Can be used to make backups of your data
  • Can burn a PictureCD of your photos for viewing on a TV with a PictureCD compatible DVD player
  • Can burn disk images, such as .iso, .dmg, .toast, cue/bin and .cdi (DiscJuggler) and some .nrg (Nero) files
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Mac OS X Freeware big list

The Great Mac OS X Freeware List at MacApper

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How to do non-destructive dodge and burn in Photoshop

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Let bad things happen

“Let the small bad things happen and make the big good things happen.”

Go read Tim Ferriss on killing distractions.

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Canon EOS 10D

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.

Canon’s Stalking Horse — Canon 10D

A Photographer’s Review of the Canon EOS 10D Digital SLR

Canon 10D Experience Report

Cleaning the CMOS Sensor of the Canon EOS 10D (and other digital SLRs) – photo.net

Rob Galbraith DPI: Canon EOS 10D

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IMAP on Gmail – woohoo!

Gmail is now rolling out IMAP access for email to some accounts. This is good news and here’s why.

More here:
Official Gmail Blog: Sync your inbox across devices with free IMAP

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Flickr a Photographer’s Ultimate Tool?

36 Reasons Flickr is a Photographer’s Ultimate Tool

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Increase your MacBook ram for a performance boost

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.

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A few Mac productivity pointers

Why I’m More Productive on a Mac – PaulStamatiou.com

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Photograph the Light not the Land

Here’s a great photography tip accompanied by some great photos: Photograph the Light not the Land

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Pursuing your self-taught MBA

Josh Sowin on going after your Self-taught MBA.

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Google Docs is handy

Google docs is handy and in case you haven’t realized it’s potential maybe you need to watch this video.

Via: Official Google Docs Blog: And now we present…

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Enter the drawing for commentaries

sept Giveaway Tim Challies has a drawing during September for volumes from the Reformed Expository Commentary series. Click the image to enter–doing so also gives me another entry. You’d like to help build my library wouldn’t you?

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HTML formatting Word or RTF for blog posts

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.

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Why You Should Ditch That Zoom for a Classic 50mm “Normal” Lens

Gary Voth Photography: The Forgotten Lens

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You do want to write faster, better and easier right?

How to Write Faster, Better, and Easier

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Give your photos a clear purpose

Simplify Your Images

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Secure a file with Disk Utility

OS X File Encryption

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No download video chat

TokBox: Video chat without having to download software. May have to try this out since the MacBook has the built in iSight camera.

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Make your own photography backdrops

DIY Muslin Studio Backdrops

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Take care of those Mac batteries

On treating your laptop, iPod, and iPhone batteries right

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Tag those files

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.”

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Add it to your list – with Quicksilver

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.

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Deal with email overload.

Clever – Sentenc.es – A Disciplined Way To Deal With Email. Picked this up from the Video for Merlin’s “Inbox Zero” talk

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Drag and Drop attachments in Gmail

This is a very cool Firefox add-on that makes it possible to drag and drop attachments in Gmail – dragdropupload

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