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Integrating Picasa and Flickr with Picasa2Flickr from umwnewmedia on Vimeo.

Ingredients

1 – A Computer with Internet Access

1 – A Flickr Account.

1 – The Picasa program.

1 – The Flickr Uploader tool.

1 – The Picasa2Flickr plugin for Picasa.

Directions

1. These directions will assume you have a Flickr account as well as the Picasa and Flickr Uploader tool already installed.
2. Visit the Picasa2Flickr page and click on the link labeled picasa2flickr button. The latest update is 20 January 2009.
3. If Picasa is not currently running, a small window should appear asking which application to launch. Choose Picasa and click OK.
4. When Picasa is running you should see a question “Launch Picasa and import buttons?” – Choose Yes.
5. You should now see the Configure Buttons window with a “Send To flickr” button under the Available Buttons.
6. Click Add>> to move it to the Current Buttons listing, and then click OK.
7. Now you can select a photo in Picasa and click the “Send To flickr” button in the bottom of the Picasa window.
8. Before you can upload photos to Flickr, you will need to Authorize the Flickr Uploader program. If you have already done this, you will see an Upload button. Fill in the fields provided and you can upload your photo or photos.
9. If you have not authorized the Flickr Uploader program, you will see a Sign In button. Click Sign In and a Flickr page will open in your web browser asking you to sign in, or if you are already signed in to Flickr, present you with the authorization page. Click Next in the box with the text “If you arrived at this page because you specifically asked Flickr Uploadr to connect to your Flickr account, click here:”
10. On the next page you will see “Flickr Uploadr wants to link to your Flickr account.” Choose “OK, I’ll authorize it”
11. Return to the Flickr Uploader program and click the Ready button. Now you can proceed with uploading photos.

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Using the Flickr Album Plugin for WordPress from umwnewmedia on Vimeo.

Ingredients

1 – A Computer with Internet Access

1 – A WordPress blog hosted on a web server (this example uses a WordPress MultiUser installation).

1 – The Flickr Album plugin installed on the WordPress blog

Directions

1. These directions will assume you have a working WordPress installation with the Flickr Album Plugin already installed.
2. Login to the Dashboard for your WordPress site.
3. Click on the Plugins link on the left-hand menu.
4. Locate the Flickr Album Plugin in the list of plugins. Click the Activate link.
5. You should see a link to go configure the plugin.
6. To use the Flickr Album Plugin, you need to have what is known as a Flickr API key. Follow the links to apply for one.
7. Once you have obtained your Flickr API key (and Shared secret key), enter them into the appropriate fields and click the Next button.
8. On the next page there are two steps. Step 1 is to click the button to Retrieve Flickr Permissions. This tells Flickr that your site will use the API key.
9. The next step is to apply those permissions. Click the Apply Permissions button.
10. If all went well you should see the Flickr Settings area where you can choose how you want images and albums to behave on your blog. Below that you should see some of your photos and/or albums appear. Make any changes you wish and click the Save Settings button.
11. When you start a new blog post, you’ll see a new blue and magenta button above the editing window that allows you to add any Flickr images from your account. Basically you choose an image, select a size (medium works well), and click the button to “Insert Into Post”.

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Ingredients

1 – Computer

1 – Original PowerPoint presentation file

1 – PowerPoint program ( for this example, PowerPoint 2007)

Directions

1. Open the original PowerPoint presentation in PowerPoint 2007.
2. Click on the “Office button” and choose Save As…
3. Choose from either the standard PowerPoint presentation, PowerPoint Show, or an PowerPoint 97-2003.
4. The Save As window is where you will either keep the same name for the file, or give your presentation a new name if you want to keep the original (we recommend this).
5. Next to the Save button is a Tools button with a drop-down menu. Choose Compress Pictures… from this menu.
6. Click the Options button. Under Compression Options , make sure “Automatically perform basic compression on save”, and “Delete cropped areas of pictures” are checked.
7. Under Target Options , choose E-mail (96ppi) to create the smallest file possible ( if the quality of the pictures becomes an issue, you can choose a higher quality).
8. Click OK to close Options, then click OK to close the Compress Pictures window.
9. Finally, click the Save button to complete the process. The resulting file should considerably smaller, depending on how many pictures you have in the presentation.