Rollyo

I created a search roll for Young Adult Books with author sites and other websites aimed at teen readers. Rollyo is a great idea but it was frustratingly slow and often came up with a message 'didn't connect - too many connections'. The process of adding websites was easy.

Library Thing

I started an account with Libary Thing and added nine books. I have three collections; My library, Read but unowned and Wish list. I'm not reading a book at the moment so I couldn't add anything to the Currently reading collection. For the five books I have recently read I added tags and gave them a rating. When I went to add 'Road to Paradise' by Paullina Simons I couldn't find it in Amazon so I added Christchurch City Libraries to the search options. I had a look at other peoples reviews for books in my library and at the various groups. From 'my books' I clicked on a book cover and had a look at the recommendations. I chose four books to add to my wish list.
I would have liked to add a widget to my blog but it isn't possible.

Alien Lion

Alien Lion
Originally uploaded by Muffinlady1

I had fun in Dumpr turning my photos into different images. For this image of the lion I used 'Alien Vision'. It was easy to use and linked directly with Flickr for storing the image. I changed the image to public to be able to add it to my blog. Well that's it for playing with photos. Time to move on to Thing 10.

Flickr Search

Today I was able to find all three photos I tagged with "Nhulunbuy Community Library" when I did a search. Previously only Kim's photo came up. I can finally say that I completed Thing 7!

Thing 8 required me to look at some Flickr Mashups. I found a list of APIs that use Flickr images on http://www.flickrbits.com/. Each one had a description so I had a closer look at the ones I thought sounded interesting. One of those was WackyB Flickr Desktop Slideshow. Semi-transparent images are displayed while the computer screen can still be seen to allow the user to continue working. I imagine it would be very distracting but an interesting idea!
I had fun making a comic strip in Bubblr with photos of soft toy animals. I searched Flickr by user name and I was very pleased to see all the photos I marked as public come up. I wasn't game to hit the publish button after I had make my comic strip for fear that it would end up in the gallery!

Kid's Corner

Kid's Corner
Originally uploaded by Muffinlady1

'Thing 7' has been a bit of a challenge. I started it in June and it is now October! I came to a halt when the first photo I took of the library couldn't be found by searching. Haven't been able to find the problem, even with Kim's help. The tag is "Nhulunbuy Community Library" and it is marked public. I had another go with two different photos but they still can't be found! At least I am getting more practise uploading photos. I'm moving on to 'Thing 8' now.