Mexico 2010 (41 photos), by Dana Farrell

The tool I used to photoshare was the photo department from Walmart.com. I regularly use Walmart.com to upload and order photos, but I have never actually shared them from there. For that, I either post pictures on a different blog I have, or use Kodakgallery.com. However, by me doing that it usually creates extra work for myself because sometimes I am triple up-loading my pictures! (Once to Walmart to order, then to my blog to share with certain friends, and to Kodak to share with people that I know will not check my blog - and also to order from Kodak if their price beats Walmart's at the time!) I think it's funny that I've never really taken the time to explore Walmart's photo site and find out that I can share a slideshow! How much time this is going to save me!! lol

I have a TON of pictures uploaded on Walmart.com! It is FREE, with unlimited photo space, and very easy to understand! From Walmart.com, on the left toolbar, you will click 'Photo' to get to the photo department. From there, creat an account, name your album, and begin uploading pictures. Again, it is very easy to follow the simple directions. After you've uploaded your pictures, there are options to add captions, to edit your photo (red-eye, focus, etc), and also you can add borders to photos!

What's most convenient, is that you can order photos right here from this site and have the photos either delivered to your home, or you can chose a store and pick them up at your convenience. You could also put photos onto shirts, coffee mugs, calendars, mouse pads, or a ton more other things!

After you've uploaded pictures to your album, you can share your album a few ways. One, is you can click 'Share' and type in emails, which the website will create an address book for futures sharings, and then send a link to your album. Or, you can share the link directly to Facebook, MySpace, or Blogger. The bad things with this sharing method is that when you click on this link, while it takes you directly to the photos, if you want to view a slideshow you have to click a different link to begin this. The good thing is that it allows your friends the option of quickly scanning the pictures if they're pressed for time, or if they want, they can click the link to the view the slideshow. They also can order any pictures they want! The following link provided is what it looks like when you share directly to Blogger.

I'd like to share my Walmart Digital Photo Center photos with you. Once you have checked out my photos you can order prints and upload your own photos to share.


The other way to share your photos is after you've uploaded into the album, you click 'view slideshare'. This will open a new window and automatically scroll through the photos. I love this option because not only can you can adjust the speed, size of photos, and even the background color behind the pictures, you can also see all the mini-pictures at the bottom that are coming up, and can order from this page as well. To share this slideshow, when it opens, you copy the web address at the top of the page. Then, post it where ever you want it! I created a hyperlink to post it here. This is it:

Click here to view the slideshare

In the end, I was happy that I took a little extra time to explore Walmart's online photo department. It was very easy for me to originally learn how to use, and contains very many beneficial features! Hope you enjoyed my tips and pics!!

RSS Feeds

I am glad to have learned about RSS Feeds! I've seen that orange symbol before, but never was quite sure what it meant. Now that I know about it, I know I am going to take advantage of it!

Before, I had a few sites I would go to in order to check if there were any new events or blogs. One in particular was IUPUI's homepage to check for upcoming events. This is basically a calender of featured events at IUPUI. Another one was my church's blog, which contains blog posts from any of the pastors at my church, about any topic. I always have good intentions to check the blog for updates, but end up forgetting since it is not updated every day. However, now that I have posted those RSS feeds to this blog, one I am on more frequently, I will be sure not to miss anything new!

I had to give it some thought on the other sites I wanted to subscribe to. I ended up choosing the following:

The first was IUPUI's newsfeed. This site contains all sorts of important news and happenings from the IUPUI campus.

The second feed regards education. It is the Education site from The New York Times. I was impressed with the scope of information this site offered. Having never visitied this site before, I was happy to see such a range of headlines!

Finally, I used Yahoo's Technology News. I really like this site as well because of the scope of topics. The technology does not center only around computers, or televisions, etc. But, it also contains articles on gaming systems and current news about hackers, for example.

In addition to finding these sites, I also had previously posted a feed on my blog of a scripture of the day. I like this feed because sometimes I do not start my day quite like I should. When I see this feed, for me it is like God saying, "Hello Dana! Don't forget about me today!".

I like that when something from these sites is updated, I will immediately know about it by only checking one site. In addition to posting these RSS feeds to my blog, I have also added them to MyYahoo. Since I am not on blogger every day, but I check my email through MyYahoo multiple times a day, I figured it would be most beneficial having those feeds there as well. On MyYahoo, I also added an RSS feed of a local mom's group I check every once in a while. I hadn't had time lately to get on there and browse the newest topics. However, now that I subscribed to the RSS feed, I am able to quickly browse if there are any conversations I want to join!

Finally, I am happy to have a combined place where I can check for updates I am interested in. The feeds I'll be most keep up with is the scripture of the day, my church's blog, and the IUPUI Featured Events page. Overall though, I know I will continue to use most of these feeds - especially when an article catches my attention.