Why I removed a sidebar widget

The drop down menu I had for interesting Links has been removed. Why? If I wanted to add more links I had to start over again and add all my links just to add a new one, for now I will just use the standard sidebar for links until I find something different if I can. But not now, it seems that blogger is having some issues, one minute I can add a page element (this is where you get the sidebars from) next minute I can't, so for now I will leave it and come back tomorrow and try to add my favourite links.

No.26 YourMinis! and Scrapbooking

No. 26 of Learning 2.1 talks about YourMinis which is all about widgets.

If you have read any of my posts you will see that I have already gone down the road of widgets and I never get sick of them, so of cause I had to get one from YourMinis and then I had to decide what kind of widget I would create. This time it had to be different from all the other ones.

Two of my friends are into scrapbooking (me, not so much in fact not at all but I like their work) have created a blog about scrapbooking and they like to share with you the many ways that you can use their products and to also offer tips and ideas along the way.

My YourMinis is dedicated to them it is RSS feed widget, feel free to check out their site by clicking on the feeds to see what they are up to.

LetterPop number 25 of Learning 2.1

LetterPop is a website, which lets you create your own newsletter when you do not have any fancy graphic programs on your computer. LetterPop offers 135 templates to choose from for your newsletter.
All you have to do is join and start creating, the drag and drop features make it easy for anyone to use, you are able to upload your own pictures. You are also able to save your creation, publish it for others to view and even email it.
This is a great way to get your news out there . I have created a newsletter it can be view by clicking here.
Using LetterPop I came across two little problems
1. You don’t have control in regards to the resizing of pictures. I uploaded a picture dropped it on to the newsletters and found it was too big, I had go back and resize then upload it again, my advice is to try one picture get an idea of the size required change all pictures you want to use before uploading all to LetterPop.
2. Printing, LetterPop allows printing of your newsletters but you also get excess information like at the bottom of the page the web address is show, perhaps in the future they make be able to offer a printable version without the excess in formation.
Overall, I would give LetterPop

Ning Network and Learning 2.1 explore.. discover.. play

Part of the Learning 2.1 is to joined the Ning Network, this I had done a couple of months ago and have joind several networks within Ning, just look for my little house on the hill I may be your friend already.







I am now part of the Learning 2.1 Ning Network

The journey continues - Thing 24

My learning continues and probably continue till when ever. I've moved on to Learning 2.1, I'm inspired by Learning 2.1 and am looking forward to trying all things suggested perhaps I will find something new but I doubt it.

Thing 23 - file conversations - Zamzar covers conversation for documents, image, music and video formats. I tried the conversion of a PDF (portable document format) to a word documents the formatting was exactly the same the I did the opposite with great results. For anyone who does not have a certain program on the computer they might find the website an advantage for example after creating a word document and wanting to share it with others who may not have e the same version of word can change their document into a PDF file. Another good point is for say Public Libraries who don't always every program available on their computers may be able to help their patrons who want to print the document and the library does not have the correct program. My library have come across this problem, we have tried the free online PDF conversion but it does not accept all types of file extensions like Zamzar.

I used Zamzar to convert a video file into an extension that I could used on my computer and was very happy with the results. I say give it a go.

Talking about file extensions, have you ever been asked (by a patron (library) ) can you please print out my document, you load up the file and it won't open, you look at the extension and think what kind of file it that. I come across this problem many times the latest was .docx this is the extension used by Microsoft Word 2007 I know that now but then I didn't and had to send the patron away to re save it in a different format. My point to all this rambling is suggest this website FILEXT-the file extension source. Some of the extension listed I've never heard of it may not be new find but it's something I found and wanted to post about it.

Enough for now until Thing 25.

Scrapblog have moved

My three Scrapblogs have been moves over to boneygril-2nd-edition, you can click on the links to view them if you like.

Round up of Learning 2.0/Web 2.0 23 things

Learning 2.0 and 23 things

What have I learned and will I do with what I have learned

I began with an end in mind and that was ‘if I try I can succeed”

It is up to me to improve myself

Problems can be resolved if you look at them as a challenge

I think I can, I know I can, and I will

Adapt to changing technology take a chance

Help others learn from others

Enjoy

I first came across 23 things after I had created my blog. I read about it in one of my RSS feeds and after reading the entry, I realised that I had already started working on 23 things I continued with my journey and discovered many new things.

Blogging Tagging Flicker Flickr colour pickr Montager Technology interests RSS feed Image generator Rollyo Technorati Del.icio.us Wikis Online applications Library Thing Podcasts video downloadable audio

Through my discoveries, I learned not just to look but also to investigate as I browse. Some of the extra things I learnt, making a Tag Cloud, Archive calendar, changing colours and fonts in the HTML codes. Joined the Ning network and made alot of friends.

I find I am continually learning every time I open the browser and I beleive that is the point of Learning 2.0

Here's a quick way

Here's a quick way to add Interesting Links without filling up your blog put it in a drop-down menu, why, just to be different, thanks to hackosphere

New videos @ boneygril

Musical @ the library
Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis @ the Library

gone but not forgotten, I'll be back as the saying goes

Polaroid Puzzle
Fish tank
Picturetrail (overseas holiday)
Weather girl

To chat or not to chat my ramblings

To chat or not to chat or is it now called posting messages

Is plain emailing being outdated????

My latest finds are Twitter, Bebo, Facebook and MySpace.

I have read about these through various blogs and on the Internet I have joined two of them.

My friend Twittered (not sure if that is the correct term) me, so I joined Twitter and we twittered for while accepted some new friends.

The other day I noticed my daughter using Facebook, she was in the family room using her laptop. My laptop is in the lounge room I sat down joined Facebook and sent her message asking her to be my friend, she accepted and we began chatting over the Internet instead of yelling to each other across the house, we do really talk to each other normally but this was just an exercise for me to see how Facebook works.

Of cause there many more site out there where one can chat, upload photos or post messages but I don't think they are for me.

Talking of chatting, where I work (public library) we have some computers that are restricted only for research purposes, on these computers chatting and email is not allowed and it was easy to block chat/email when there was only hotmail messenger and yahoo chat but now because there so many variations it is becoming hard to block all of them especially when you have not even heard of them, it's making the IT guy a bit crazy.

I can't imagined how many variations there are out there in the world wide web where one can email, chat or just send messages.

I've been tagged - MEME 8

So I have been tagged, I guess I had better think of 8 random things.

My 8 randoms consist of things I like/love and are proud of.

1. My children, well their not children any more but technically they are still my children, they are now adults, so do I call them my adults, no, I don't think so, that sound odd.

2. My friend, who I have known for over ten years, who has been a good friend, mentor and would not let me give up when I was struggling with my studies to become a Library technician.

3. Watching TV, I enjoy all sort of viewing from soapies to documentaries.

4.Startrek, Stargate, Boston Legal and The Amazing Race.

5. Chocolate

6.Sitting in my old lounge chair surfing the internet on my laptop

7. Completing my Diploma of Library/Information Services course, and considering I have not been near a school environment for xxx amount of years and I mean a lot of xs, that is something to proud of and I did it while working full time, enough of the self praising.

8. Getting back into the work force after the breakdown of my marriage (not my fault but his) after a ten-year break you really have to re-educate yourself.

9. The ability to be able to teach someone else something I have taught myself to do.

10. Creating this blog.

I tag Kevin

new video added on boneygril second edition

The Japanese are very good at creating unusual games.

Flickr Badge (23 things Web 2.0, No 3: Photos & Images

A couple of posts ago I talked about up loading pictures to Flickr and trying to work out how to put these pictures into a widget, well I thought it was a widget but in reality it was a Flickr Badge. I have worked it out and I have added my Flickr Badge to boneygril-2nd-edition, check it out if you like.



I can add this exercise to my attempt to complete all 23 things in Web 2.0.

TIME FOR CHANGE AND CLEAN UP

Clean up - I have decided to remove several of my widgets namely Shelfari –until I find new books that I like, Clusty Cloud – at the moment I don’t need any information about graphic novels, Clusty might come back in the future, Memory Game – I have played it enough this has been replaced by Polaroid Puzzle that’s the clean up.

Change – new cloud as mentioned in previous post, new archive calendar also mentioned in previous post again I would like to thank phydeaux3 for his help in getting these up and running.

I have had a lot of visitors to my Frappr Map, Australia, Sweden, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Pakistan, Tunis, USA, Malaysia, London, Canada, Spain, Bangkok, Turkey, and Paris.

It’s also good to see viewers and readers from BlogCatalog and MyBlogLog.

I will have to get back to completing 23 things soon.

new video added on boneygirl second edition

Blog Archive Calendar been added

I forgot to say thank you again to phydeaux3

Creating a label cloud

It's been awhile but I have found something new, putting my labels or tags if you like into a cloud thanks to phydeaux3.

I will be back later

Improving my Flickr connection

In one of my previous posts I mentioned that I have added some pictures to Flickr and put a link to these pictures, that’s good but I have seen on other blogs that they have their Flickr pictures contained within a box.

I will be endeavouring to do the same, if I accomplish this I will put it in my 2nd edition and let you (you being the universal you) know through this blog

Hello world

Today I discovered that I could create a blog within a blog, if you click on my profile you will see that I have created a second blog called Boneygirl 2nd edition.

The reason I did this was, first to see if I could and second, because I wanted too, cleaver person aren’t I?

I really like to play with things like image gen, widgets etc, so I've decided to add my new creation to my 2nd edition blog.

If you like to see what I have been up to click on my profile, at the moment I only have two things but I will be adding more in the future.