The B-Log » Tech http://www.themartys.com See, cause my name starts with 'B'... Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:55:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Photo Sharing! http://www.themartys.com/2007/09/13/photo-sharing/ http://www.themartys.com/2007/09/13/photo-sharing/#comments Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:19:51 +0000 Bill http://74.220.200.98/martyblog/?p=8 I have been trying to select one of the myriad online photo repositories so that when I keep messing around with the site I don’t have to lose all the pictures that I’ve shared. I wanted to avoid paying a fee if I could, but that proved to be a little more difficult than I originally thought.

Derin did a series on his old site (he has since moved to wordpress.com) regarding the many options out there. Almost all of them – if you wanted to use them for free – had a glaring flaw. Snapfish was cool, but you could only share photos by emailing special links to people. Flickr is very nice, but you are limited to only three separate albums – not good for organizing! Many of the others – photobucket, etc. – are visual train-wrecks. Linking to my pictures almost gave me a headache as by brain tried to sort through the muddled ads and garbage. AND my pictures didn’t actually start until about 3/4 the way down the page!

I was nearly resigned to pay for Flickr Pro when Marcellus the Photographer pointed me to Ringo.com. I think this is going to be the winner – at least for now. The user interface very clean for one of the free sites. At least there is a chance that the albums are the first thing you are going to see! I only have one test album up with a couple pictures now, but I’ll keep you posted as it starts to get more populated:

http://www.ringo.com/photos/albums.html?memberId=166175250

Oh yea, I guess I threw in a video from youtube as well. Caution – it may stir up some bad feelings from the past :)

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I was searching through the program guide on the Dish to find all of the channels that were going to have college football tomorrow. I was fairly surprised to see that the Big Ten Network showed as available on my programming package!

Sure enough, Dish Network announced yesterday that they have added the Big Ten Network to America’s Top 100. That’s the cheaper package, therefore, that is the package I have. Needless to say, I am a happy camper as I will be watching Iowa vs. Syracuse tomorrow night!

The other big event tomorrow is UFC 75: Champion vs. Champion. The champions in question are UFC light-heaveyweight champion Quinton Jackson and Pride middleweight and welterweight champion Dan Henderson (the two organizations’ weight class names aren’t the same). Henderson hasn’t fought in the UFC since 1998. I’ve never seen him fight before and am very much looking forward to it – especially free on Spike TV!

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