Towse: views from the hill

January 11, 2008

The image cannot be displayed, because it contains errors

Filed under: app,design,photographs,travel,webstuff — Towse @ 11:00 pm

The image cannot be displayed, because it contains errors

Seems Firefox was complaining because some of the .jpgs Duende sent — which I was trying to add to the site — were in CMYK (print) instead of RGB (screen display). Makes sense. Duende’d sent the photos used in prior years’ brochures.

Turns out ’tis simple enough to pull the .jpg into Photoshop. Go to the Image pulldown menu IMAGE->MODE and save the JPG as RGB instead of CMYK.

And Bob’s your uncle.

Would that most of the world’s problems were so easily handled.

December 1, 2007

Fluther: What is Fluther?

Filed under: app,resource,web2.0 — Towse @ 9:09 pm

Fluther: What is Fluther?

October 18, 2007

SFRentStats

Filed under: app,life,San Francisco — Towse @ 8:51 pm

Interesting mashup showing San Francisco rental data: SFRentStats

And the nice thing? SFRentStats refuses advertising because it’s just mashing up Craigslist data.

October 2, 2007

Google Analytics

Filed under: app,webstuff — Towse @ 1:22 am

Having fun with Google Analytics.

I set up Google Analytics for Internet Resources for Writers the other day. Picked up my little bit of code from Google and added it to every page on the site.

I only have two days’ worth of stats so far, but I’ve found out that 18% of my traffic comes from search engines, 32.5% comes from direct hits and the other 49.5% comes from links on other sites. Turns out of the 242 visits in the last two days, ninety of them came via stumbleupon. 37%!

I have a 60% bounce rate (meaning the visitor hit one page and left), which is sucky if you’re trying to sell somebody something, but if someone wants a bit of information, finds it on the first page they look at and leaves, that’s cool with me.

And if someone doesn’t find what they’re looking for (like the person who came via a search engine search for /dental office supplies free printable photos/), well, that’s cool too. (I had to do that search to see if I really show up. I do! #4 on the returned hits!)

Other fun features of Google Analytics include a pretty map showing visitors’ locations.

August 8, 2007

pikifx.com reprise

Filed under: app,photographs — Towse @ 4:48 am

The garden Buddha morphed with “cartoon” special effect. I like too. Has a Japanese woodblock print feel to it.

Image Touched Up By www.pikifx.com

August 7, 2007

pikifx.com

Filed under: app,photographs — Towse @ 6:43 pm

New app: fx for your pix.

The garden Buddha morphed with “oil paint” special effect. Large brush. I like.

Image Touched Up By www.pikifx.com

[pikifx snitched from Sour Grapes' Google Reader items]

July 20, 2007

Websites as graphs

Filed under: app,blog,webstuff — Towse @ 12:13 am

Pretty, eh? That’s the blog in living color. I could swear I’d done this before, a year or more back, but I can’t find it, if I did indeed do it, so I’ve done it again.

Aharef provides the applet. You provide the Web page you want him to graph. He ‘xplains it all here and also shows some mega sites and how they look with the app: cnn.com, apple.com &c.

Color code:
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags

Flickr has a collection of pics.

Nice.

July 11, 2007

Added del.icio.us cloud tag

Filed under: app,URL,web2.0 — Towse @ 1:17 am

Added my del.icio.us cloud tag over in the righthand sidebar ’cause I think it’s purty.

(Yes, I know that tag clouds have been called the new mullet, but I like having it there. Of course my blog-based cloud tag means that even your grandma has one and it might be time to take yours off your site.)

Most of the bookmarks I imported from Firefox to del.icio.us are still in the “needs to be looked at before they’re added” stage but I decided 500+ were enough to make a decent tag cloud.

total links @ del.icio.us: 3509 links (and counting).
“still need to be looked at”: 2970+

Some of those links go back to April 1995, back when Yahoo! was just a wonderful collection of links on akebono.stanford.edu, back when I was thrilled to watch the cam pointed at the Trojan Room coffee pot at Cambridge.

Eventually almost all the links will be available on del.icio.us, but it’ll take some time. I’m checking each link to see if it still works and still goes somewhere I care about, adding tags, &c. and so on.

What an exciting life I lead.

June 30, 2007

LOLcat builder

Filed under: app,photographs,webstuff — Towse @ 12:10 am

For Mz UV ’cause she lurves LOLcats. Seen this?

LolCat Builder

June 29, 2007

StumbleUpon – SalT’s Web site reviews

Filed under: app,life,URL,webstuff — Towse @ 5:47 pm

StumbleUpon – SalT’s StumbleUpon Web site reviews

Since I started with StumbleUpon umpty ump (March 17, 2004) years ago, I’ve rated 1777 sites and, must admit, sometimes spend months without checking in. These days I not only put links on my blog but also put links on Tumblr and links on del.icio.us and, sometimes, on StumbleUpon.

I’m not dutiful about my StumbleUpon duties.

Obviously. …

Just came across starspirit, who has rated 124,289 sites.

Zounds. Even gmc has only rated 17962 but then he’s been busy building SU into something eBay wanted to buy.

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