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

Photo grunge border tutorial by Dubtastic.

Eduardo Recife’s fonts and brushes at www.misprintedtype.com

Playing with sIFR fonts to use with David Chait’s excellent plugin for Wordpress.

24 pages of free patterns by Travis Beckam.

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.

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:)

10 rules for your small business home page - Download Squad
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:)

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:

First, install the plugin.

Extra form code and css

The plugin’s author, Oliver, was very thorough and went so far as to pre-make a sidebar form and the css to display it correctly in the sidebar. You can create as many forms as you want, but Oliver wrote the css for this sidebar form as if it were for your FOURTH created form. So, download the sidebar-example.zip and unzip it to your hard drive. Remember where you put the text file.

In the plugin admin, click “add form” three times so that you’re in the admin to set up the fourth.

Import the form

On the “backup this form” line, click “browse,” locate the sidebar-form.txt file on your hard drive, and click “restore settings.”

Add the css

Open the css file in a text editor, copy it, and paste it into the top of the cforms.css file in the plugin’s folder (in the wp-plugins folder on your server).

Insert the form in your sidebar

How you do this will depend a bit on whether this is a widgetized sidebar or not. I put mine in my extended footer, which is not widgetized. I used the theme editor under “presentation” to edit the sidebar file. Using my blog as an example, I found the div I wanted it in and inserted the code (as well as a title heading) so the whole div code looked like this: <div style="overflow:hidden;">
<?php insert_cform(4); ?>
</div>

Last tweaks

I wound up with the “send” button floating way over to the right, overlapping the next column. So I changed the margins for the input button in the css file to make it line up better. I’m not sure why this happened or if that’s the best fix.

I hope this helps someone:)