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Copygram. Get All Your Instagram Photo Filter-y Goodness Easily...
Love Instagr.am? I do too, but getting photos off your phone and instragrams non existent web site is a bit of a pain. You can use extragram to view them, or http://www.ifttt.com for copying new photos to say a dropbox or flickr account, but a simple way to get older images is using copygr.am.
Just sign in with your instagram account and your on your way to download all your photo filter-y goodness. (Thnx to +Robert Scoble )
Photos - Adelaide. Underrated, Chilled, and packing some awesome wine.
Tracey and I took a short trip in September 2010 to Adelaide for our Anniversary. Only now just getting round to sorting photos, but over five days we went around several wineries (hic), ate out around the many excellent places in the city centre, and m'lady got to go to the the zoo to see Pandas. Adelaide is a great place, and still amongst the top ten cities in the world for quality of living, with some great shops and restaurants, and is definetly a five out of ten on the busy scale when compared to Melbournes mental eleven out of ten.
Don't let that put you off, a more relaxed pace is just what were after at the time, and Adelaide really is a great place to chill out, take your time and savour that wine : P
View the slideset below, or go high res and view directly on Picasa.
Chilling in the sun by the pool...Bliss!
Taken at North Melbourne Recreation Centre Outdoor pool
Human beings are WONDER-ful...
This made my day. Simply awesome.
Screw the invisible plane Wonder Woman has, can we get her/him an invisible cloak or something?
Facebook-Photos 60 Billion. Picasa-7 Billion. Flickr 5 billion. 'Don't tag me bro!'
All great if you don't mind facebook, and just upload happy snaps to the site. However if you choose to close up shop and you try and get them out their walled garden if it all goes tits up in the future... good luck!
Certainly facebook has a poor track record of getting anything OUT of it's site so far, but many will likely not care. And with so many images anyway, were never going to get to see them all anyway, are we? I mean who is going to want to see those snaps of that night...y'know, the one the nun and the donkey brought the mayonnaise round?
I'll just keep mine on Picasa & flickr thanks Mr. Zuckerberg : )
Picasa gets even more amazing. Make a 'face movie' and make your wife cry like I did.
Look before I get hate mail, I didn't intend her to cry, and it was 'happy tears' I'm told.
Yet like the movie sample above, you can see that this can be a very emotional and pretty stunning feature.
I've raved about and promoted Picasa (over twenty five times on this site alone) over the years so I think you get the message I like it, yes? Good.
Google engineers make it incredibly simple to use, and I simply clicked on T's face, pressed a button, and boom, ten years of hairstyles, some embarrassing outfits, and friends along with her in the middle.
Powerful stuff.
I don't get paid by Google (currently) but this is very, very worth trying out. This release (3.8) turns a piece of software in to a deeply powerful and emotion rich tool, adding a layer of experience for the user that most software rarely goes near.
Just have a box of tissues handy when you use it : )
Photos - Great Barrier Reef
Part of a recent trip up to Queensland, we stayed in the beautiful Hamilton Island and visited other areas of the Whitsundays, but always key decision to the trip was getting to go to the Great Barrier Reef.
On many peoples top ten places in the world list, we'd put this off twice before, but decided this time was a must.
Some snorkelling, followed by scuba diving, and finally a flight over Heart Shaped reef, made a day you just.don't.easily.forget. Pictures and a short video give an idea, but don't do it justice. And if you've been putting off going, start planning to go, it's something pretty special.
Photos - Christmas in July
In Melbourne mid winter, when it’s supposed to be cold ( I still cant get over mid ‘winter’ being a very nice sunny 16°!) many people not native to Australia celebrate Christmas in July. Many bars and restaurants run Christmas specials on the 25th July, and since we arrived in Melbourne, the great group of friends we have, always made a point of celebrating it.
This year started off with some ice skating at Melbourne Icehouse, followed on by Christmas lunch at the Metropolitan hotel in North Melbourne, then back to ours for more.
Cue a really devious version of Secret Santa, cocktails, and yet more food, and, well... I’m knackered.
Great peeps, great day, some daft photos below. And with the next Christmas six months away, it really does feel like Christmas gets closer every year : )
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