After having a look at ways to improve my blog site and as well as this a way to add some of the photo’s from places I have been to on my site I found this site www.flickrslidr.com
This site allows you to input the URL for your Flickr account or you Set or Group of photos!
It is extremely easy to use and allows you to setup the size you require to add onto your site as-well.
After you input this all you have to do is click on ‘Create Slideshow’ and this will then give you the code you need to input onto your blog / website.
This will only take you a few minutes to setup and you do not need to register for an account as well.
The result of this will show a slideshow of the pictures on your website as a slide show going through your photos as you can see here.
I fully recommend this service if you are looking for a quick and easy way to show a slide show of your Flickr photos on your site.
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Well recently YouTube brougth out captions for their videos, I think this is a very good idea but there is a major issue with this … it dose not fully work!
You can see how bad this is by going to which was recently posted by Chris Pirillo to show just how bad it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9NHag5JvrE
Sorry YouTube but it is a very good idea but it needs to work first!
On the site you can get a number of songs for FREE and whats more it will use your computer microphone to ‘rate’ your singing or you can play along without your mic.
You can get songs from 1960 right up to the current year.
Karaokeparty is a music service that let users sing karaoke, practice singing and challenge friends. All that is needed is a microphone and a computer connected to the Internet.
All music on this site are cover versions made by professional muscians and not the original artist.
As you may (or may not) know I work in the Travel Industry and do like to keep up with what is going on within the Travel Industry as well as wht is also going on with other companys etc
A good part I also find is reviews on diffrent travel agents as well.
If you work in the Travel Industry or just like to know what is going on within the Travel Industry I can highly recomend www.travelweekly.co.uk
Who provide daily news as well as this they also provide a weekly ‘newspaper for the travel industry’
A few years ago while I was at college I found a great HelpDesk system called OneOrZero.
I was very impressed by this system and what it had offer and also what it could also have to offer in the future I became involved in the project providing support to other users, testing of new versions as well as looking at good ways forward with the product working alongside Adam.
Recently OneOrZero upgraded to the new AIMS system (Action and Information Management System) featuring a powerful help desk, knowledge base, time manager and reporting system.
The system comes highly workable out of the box and is very easy to install!
Another great benefit that you would find with this system is that it has a built in LDAP and Active Directory integration which will make it even easier for you to role it out across your company for your existing network.
When I installed this it only took me less than a minute to install out of the box settings which is amazing for any product as most you will find you have to make a number of settings etc!
For those interested you can head over to the demo at the OneOrZero Site which I will now show you
For this demo I will be using the demo Admin Account and today we will have a look at the HelpDesk function of the system.
As you can see as soon as you log into the system you are greeted by the Quick Launch Section which gives you the option of which part of the system you would like to view.
For this example I will show you the Help Desk Function, from the quick launch menu you can access this by clicking on Help Desk.
As you can see this now loads the helpdesk application which will give you a number of options from creating new tickets, managing existing tickets, custom search options and more!
When creating a new ticket you just click on the type of item you will be creating (this can be set in the Administration of the AIMS system), for this example we will setup a new Helpdesk Ticket.
Depending on the options you have set for the item type you will get a screen similar to the one now showing, creating the new ticket can’t be any easier and asks you for all the details you need [input details] and after you have input everything you need to just click on ADD
Another great feature is the ticket group where you can set what type of group it would be then under category it will show categories which fit into that group!
Also when you are in the home for the helpdesk you are able to manage current tickets.
As you can see you can update the ticket, change the status of the ticket, transform the ticket into a helpdesk item which will automatically add it onto the Helpdesk system!
I hope you found this preview of the HelpDesk function of OneOrZero useful, if you would like more information on the HelpDesk function head over to www.oneorzero.com
You can also find me live at live.rossmilne.net, if you have ideas for a video email me at ross@rossmilne.net and you can also join our community at forum.rossmilne.net
Looking for a much easier way to manage your Tweets?
Perhaps you get allot of messages through Twitter and want an easy way to view them and to reply to them?
Well looking around on the Internet I found CoTweet, this website found at www.cotweet.com not only makes it allot easier to view your messages on Twitter it more or less looks even better than Twitter!
This service is FREE to use which is a massive bonus for all.
I signed up for this 2 days ago and I am already loving it, its simple to use and only takes a few minutes to fully setup.
This simply looks like a email account layout, with an INBOX which will track on twitter all messages sent to you i.e. @bigrossco hello!. This will then allow you to reply to these messages through Twitter and let you keep track of any messages you have replied to.
It also has a UPDATES section where you can view all your messages you have posted as well as messages posted by people who you are following!
Another benefit is it will allow you to add more than one Twitter Account, and not only that, it will allow you to ‘assign’ other people to use your Twitter Account and reply to Tweets and also Assign tweets to other assigned users to reply to! Which of course would be a great benefit for Companies who use twitter.
Another part of CoTweet I have found useful is a Scheduled option which will allow you to set Twitter Messages to post at a specific Date and Time!
Of Course there is many other 3rd Party Sites out for Twitter, but if I am to be honest this must be the best site I have found so far!
Do you use any other Twitter Sites that are similar to CoTweet, Do you use CoTweet and wish to tell people how good you think it is? Comment below, send an email to me at ross@rossmilne.net or of course you can ‘tweet’ me @bigrossco
Facebook have now launched a stripped-down version of there website – Facebook Lite
Having looked at this my self, it is very nice to see Facebook having released this especaly for people who may have slower Internet connections (or even those who are still on Dial-Up)
One of the biggest parts you will notice is that it will not have the Facebook Application Bar at the bottom of the page and will not have the IM / Chat function.
This also dose strips down allot of unnecessary functions that people may not use allot.
The Lite Version is purley from what it seems a part where you can view your notifications, search and view your friends and view your profile, it dose not include any of the applications.
I think this is a great idea for Facebook to FINALY bring out, which at first was due to come out in August.
Facebook also runs ALOT faster under the lite mode as it dose not have the chat function.
It will remain to be seen if many people will switch to using the lite version, personally I do like the current version and do not feel that I will use the lite version that much.
These days many companies are now taking advantage of free marketing on the Internet simply by using Twitter.
Right away you can find that these companies are advertising the fact that they can even be found on Twitter for offers etc as well as to get updates from the company
Here is just a few of the comapanys you can find on Twitter
It is no surprise with the amount of business’s that are now going onto Twitter just to advertise their products / services that Twitter are considering charging business’s for this, but this has still not yet been confirmed.
I use Twitter my self and Twitter even updates everytime I post an update on this site! http://twitter.com/bigrossco
What the future may hold for Twitter I am not sure of, but I like twitter the way it is just now and hope that they will not make far to many / big changes!
