Thing 10: Play around with Image Generators

Out of the three image generators, I had the most fun with Letter James. There were so many good images to choose. Well, here are my four.

Thing 9: Finding Feeds

The method that I found the easiest to use to find feeds was the keyword search. The Search tool that I thought was the easiest to use was Topix.net. It gives you an interactive graph and you can click on the blue bars to narrow your search. Also, it gave me the local news on the home page. I found a few usual feeds when I was searching. I'm a big fan of Caesar Milan the "Dog Whisperer." I was surprised to learn that there is a cat, lizard, squirrel and worm whisperer too.

Thing 8: Make life "really simple" with RSS & a newsreader

What I liked about RSS and newsreaders is that it brings the news to me. It's news that I have selected to receive. What a time saver! It eliminates mail clutter. This is a very good thing! The tutorials were very helpful. Yippee! I created a free Blogline account, subscribed to (or should I say too) many newsfeeds, RSS and blogs.

Thing 7: Blog About Technology

Apple has raised the bar again. The company has invented the iphone. What will they think of next? The iPhone is a combination touchscreen iPod-cellular telephone-Internet browser. It can automatically synch the user's media – movies, music, photos through iTunes. It is less than a 1/2" thin and runs the Macintosh computer operating system. The iphone cost about $499 - $599, but it's not available until June. It has a lot of great features in one small device, but I'm not going to spend $500 for the iphone. I'll just stick with my camera phone for now.

I posted a few comments to several blogs.

Thing 6: More Flickr Fun

Yes, more Flickr fun!

At first I thought that I would create a Trading card. It look like fun. When I click on FD Toys, I decided to select the Captioner instead. You can add cute comic book style captions to your photos. I uploaded a photo that I took myself and added the captions. Here it is!

Thing 5: Discover Flickr

The Future Is Always Beginning Now

The future is always beginning now
Originally uploaded by IrenaS.

"The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you."
Tennessee Williams

Words to live by.

I went to Flickr and click on a few tags that peaked my interests. I found this beautiful photo and the inspirational quote by Tennessee Williams above that someone else had previously uploaded. I was able to skip one of the steps because I already have a Yahoo email account. Yes, I Yahooooooo! Next step was to send the photo to my blog. After several attempts I finally was successful. I was excited to see the photo posted in my blog. Hey ya! Now that the discovery exercise is behind me, I'll take a look at the other links listed to learn more about Flickr. Amazing!