Archive for December 2006
They fly over my house
(photo credit: NASA)
I thought this was a really cool photo, particularly since the shuttle was flying over New Zealand. See the note on the photo to see where I live.
As per most NASA photos, this one is not under copyright. I am claiming no copyright on this myself. Since Flickr defaults to All Rights Reserved, I’ve changed the license on this to Attribution. Please attribute NASA, not me, if you want to copy this photo. Source: Mission STS-116 Day 4 (original filename 165239main_s116e05983_hires.jpg)
New Zealand Heritage Magazine
New Zealand Heritage magazine is a quarterly publication by the NZ Historic Places Trust / Pouhere Taonga. Their Summer 2006 issue just published this week features four of my photographs of Masterton in its Travel Feature entitled Centre of Attention by Gareth Winter.
And, they found them on Flickr. How cool is that?
Original photos:
he nervously faces his nemesis with powers as great as his own
This is one of my entries in Utata’s latest project “Utata Imitates Life. Does anyone know what this character is? It’s one of my son’s McDonald’s toys, but I don’t remember which movie he is from.
Creating a Flickr Account (Step by Step)
It seems that just about every day, someone posts to the Flickr help forums saying that it is too confusing for their family to create a Flickr account and make them a contact, etc. So today I decided to document the entire process as I went through it step by step. Perhaps this might help someone who is having trouble. (please note that all these screen prints are linked to my flickr account but are currently set to private)
1) I, a current Flickr member, send an invitation using the Invite a Friend screen. In this case, I am also telling Flickr that this person should be set as a “family” contact:
2) The invited person receives an email with a link to click. Clicking the link takes him to the Flickr welcome screen:
3) He clicks the Sign In link on that page and is taken to the Yahoo sign in screen:
4) If he already has a Yahoo ID, then he signs in to that and goes to step 6). If not, then he needs to create one, so he clicks the Sign Up link under the bit that says “Don’t have a Yahoo ID? Signing up is easy.” He then sees this screen:
5) After filling in all the information and pressing Save, his Yahoo ID will be created and he will be logged in, showing this confirmation screen with information such as his new email address and the security information he entered:
6) Clicking the “Continue to Yahoo! Flickr” button at the bottom, he is taken back to Flickr, where he then can create his Flickr screen name. The screen also gives the option of merging that Yahoo ID with an existing Flickr account, but as this person doesn’t yet have a Flickr account, that is not applicable. He enters the screen name that he wants.
7) After that, he presses the Sign In button, and the process is complete. He is now signed into Flickr, has been made a “family contact” of mine and I have been made a contact of his. He is given a link to go straight to my photos (or can choose to explore the site instead).
So, while the process has six steps (four if they already have a Y! ID), it’s not very difficult and this entire process took me about 5 minutes, including doing the screen captures along the way.
I’d appreciate any comments/feedback about this tutorial.
