Thing #26: Widgets - little bits of the internet on your desktop

Hi

Had a look at the yourminis widgets site http://www.yourminis.com/browse_minis.aspx?c=travel&s=rating&t=all&p=1

Ok, it took a little while to work out that if you "spin the wheel" once selecting copy and choose B for blogger and then sign in etc that the widget will get magically transported to my blog. Believe me, copying the html code definitely wasn't working!

Looks good. Need a world time thingy, but I guess one of the entries under clock could be set up to show the time in a particular spot... Hmmm, trouble is I'd want a few set up! Better use on your own webpage, rather than a blog. Would get lost in the blog entries along the way.

Thing #25: Letterpop.com - newsletters

Hi

Used http://letterpop.com to create the start of a Christmas newsletter ...

I've made it private, but apparantly if you send out the URL to people, they can still view it - guess it's just not searchable.
http://letterpop.com/newsletters/?id=86246-b89924

Didn't work over the desktop at all. Used a standalone PC to register and create & save etc.

Took awhile to work out how to add any text in, but once did it was all relatively simple.

Thing #24 Zamzar.

23 April 2008

Back again...

[Just loved this picture - irony in the extreme]

Now on with the learning result...







http://www.zamzar.com/ was extremely easy to use, especially once I knew to scroll down the screen a bit to find that the document I'd selected for conversion had been selected alright (I did wonder at first if it was actually letting me upload a document off of the share drive or not).









Couldn't select a .tif doc which was a pain - that's what I'd most use it for (convert to pdf).









Did .doc to .pdf and then .pdf to .doc

.doc to .pdf worked a treat. Not sure that I've ever had a need for this, but it worked all the same.

.pdf to .doc didn't work so great. Sure, I can now add text before the article I chose, I can add text over and even add a picture over the top and I can add text after. But I can't seem to alter the original text. Ah, well.


Did take awhile for them to arrive... Probably our end, rather than zamzar.





As expected, there were quite a few popups associated with using this free site - but that seems perfectly normal these days! And they're rather keen that you join up.