Picasa2Flickr is a dream come true for many Picasa users

I was able to get this nifty open-source program working in a few minutes with a little tinkering. It adds a button to your Picasa bottom bar that lets you upload pictures directly to Flickr. When you click the new Picasa2Flickr button, a popup window appears showing whatever pictures are in your tray. Then you can add tags, sets, privacy, and size settings for Flickr. You then have to click two buttons, first “authorize” then “continue” whereupon you’ll be sent to a Yahoo/Flickr login.

To get the plugin set up, I used the manual install. Navigate to c://program files/picasa2/buttons. Create a file called picasa2flickr.pbf. Paste this code into it.

If you use Firefox, you’ll need to next go to http://picasa2flickr.4now.net/register.html and authorize the java.Then open Picasa, select some pictures, click the button, and off you go!

My dream is for someone to create a similar button that adds images to a custom Gallery2 install. Now that would be beautiful!

Link: Picasa2Flickr Sourceforge site

Check your website’s importance and visibility

SEOmoz.org is a leader in optimizing websites for search engine rankings. The folks there have this handy-dandy Page Strength tool that will check any website based on 13 factors including internal links, Technorati links, and Google page rank.

They have several other tools that might interest you if you’re a website owner: Term Target, Crawl Test, and Keyword Difficulty.

Update: Technorati has introduced an “authority” ranking for each blog, which is simply a number reflecting every link your blog has received in the last 6 months (even if it’s spam). Ionut of the Google Operating System blog makes a good point that Google’s pagerank is much more sophisitcated and useful because it takes into account the source of those links, penalizing spammers and rewarding high value sites.

So people could rig the Technorati system like Linkrain suggests where this isn’t possible (at least in the same way) with Google.

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Linkrain, a blogger writing about how to boost your website rankings, has started an experiment using Technorati, one of the original networking sites for bloggers. He asked his readers add each other to their Technorati favorites to find if doing so will help his (and our) overall search engine rankings. So I claimed this blog at technorati and added him to my favorites, as I already read his RSS feed every day (and wish I could edit it:).

You can add the RCC Blog to your favorites by clicking this link:

This might seem a little gimicky, but I figure at a minimum it never hurts to meet new people writing on subjects that interest you. And it was a good excuse to finally join the millions of other bloggers using Technorati. Better late than never:)

Update: I put up my editing rates. Evaluations were easy–they’re free:)

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If your site says, “Call for pricing,” I’m not calling because someone else displays the price online.

No, my rates aren’t up yet:)

how to use the custom forms included in the cforms plugin

This is an amazing plugin, but it can be a little difficult to jump into and figure out as a new user, especially if you want to use the custom forms and CSS required to put the form in the sidebar. The following will walk you through it: Continue reading ‘Adding a sidebar form to your wordpress blog’