foolfillment: the blog

I’ve put together a wee tutorial on using Autodesk Inventor. I’ve been using the Professional 2008 version but most of it transfers across to other versions.

It is based around a series of screenshots hosted in a set on flickr with supporting notes. It works really well if you click through the set image by image. This is the first screen.

Flickr’s slideshow transitions mean that it is pretty slick when you watch it that way, although the notes added on top of the images don’t show - anyone know of a way around this other than editing the images themselves?

I’d love to know what people think of it, it was only a couple of hours work but would be nice to know I’ve not wasted that time.

Spurred on by Ollie, and having lots of other work to do I’ve made a quick video on how to allow scrapblog to use you flickr images, take a look here:
Adding your flickr images to your scrapblog

Another post about a resource, I’ve just found Scrapblog (via meish.org). This tool lets you easily create scrap book style webpages where you can bring in photos from loads of different sites like flickr and photobucket, videos form youTube, then style them as you like, add text and colours.

Once it’s done you can publish it to a load of different places, you can produce DVDs, or flickr photosets, or books, even embed it in your own website.

It seem very easy to use and links in with loads of different sites so it could be a fantastic tool to use in schools to create reports about school trips, experiments, shows, anything.

Go and have a look at the scrapblog tour to see how easy it is to use.

I’ve just spent a wee while after dinner playing with some new headers for the site, they’re randomly selected from a list of 5, so just hit refresh and you should eventually cycle through them all, I think full sizes of all of the images are available on my flickr photostream. Those of you who only read my blog through an aggregator won’t care at all about this. On the subject I’ve been using Google Reader for the last week or so, I have to say it’s much friendlier than bloglines with a lot of nice features, such as marking posts as read just by scrolling past them.

[tags]random headers, flickr, google reader, bloglines, aggregators[/tags]

Draw a crude sketch and retrievr will search for a match out of all the images on flickr

[tags]flickr, web2.0, retrievr[/tags]