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		<title>Blogsy &#8211; iPad blogging app first impression</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 04:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TechEnvy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a few different ways for you to add posts to a blogger or wordpress blog on an iPad, but they aren&#8217;t exactly elegant when it comes to formatting. Blogsy is an iPad app that promises easy posting with multimedia love, so let&#8217;s try it out! Obviously I&#8217;m posting this via the Blogsy app. The interface is decent, I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are a few different ways for you to add posts to a blogger or wordpress blog on an iPad, but they aren&#8217;t exactly elegant when it comes to formatting. <strong class="strong rangy_1">Blogsy</strong> is an iPad app that promises easy posting with <em class="em rangy_2">multimedia love,</em> so let&#8217;s try it out!</p>
<p>Obviously I&#8217;m posting this via the Blogsy app.</p>
<p>The interface is decent, I could see it taking a bit of time to get used to.  My favorite feature so far is the two sided editor.  You swipe the main screen to flip between the HTML code side and the media formatting side.  </p>
<p>My least favorite thing about it is that there appears to be no way to upload photos from the app.  You can insert photos from your flickr or picasa account, but you&#8217;d have to plan ahead and have your images already uploaded, or leave the app to add new images from your iPad.</p>
<p>It does have an in app browser and google image search tool, which would be nice for finding stock images to add to posts.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve added my flickr account and am adding a photo from that here to test image embedding:</p>
<p class="alignnone"><a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2759/4137322374_04c3c9556a.jpg" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/farm3.static.flickr.com/2759/4137322374_04c3c9556a.jpg?referer=');"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2759/4137322374_04c3c9556a.jpg" id="blogsy-1305007735144.2278" class="alignright" alt="An example of a flickr photo" width="300" height="225"></a></p>
<p>You can also add a YouTube account link, but for whatever reason that does not appear to working right now.  I get to the &#8216;approve access for this app&#8217; screen, but granting access never seems to stick.  It would be nice if there were other online services that you could add, as I prefer <a href="http://vimeo.com/nathanielakin" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/vimeo.com/nathanielakin?referer=');"></a><a href="http://vimeo.com/nathanielakin" title="My Vimeo Page" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/vimeo.com/nathanielakin?referer=');">vimeo</a> for hosting my video work.</p>
<p>For certain kinds of blogging I can see this app being very nice.  If you&#8217;re syncing your photo library with flickr or picasa and want to use them in an online diary, this app will work well for you.  For me it feels to limited without in-app photo uploading and no way to set the wordpress feature image for the post.</p>
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		<title>Free domain registration!</title>
		<link>http://techenvy.com/web/free-domain-registration</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TechEnvy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, who likes freebies and wants a free domain name? I&#8217;ve got a couple of promo codes from the registrar gandi.net to give away. I&#8217;ve used them as a registrar for 10 years now, and am very happy with them. If you want to register a new domain name for free, post your reason in the comment section below and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ok, who likes freebies and wants a free domain name?  I&#8217;ve got a couple of promo codes from the registrar <a href="http://gandi.net" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/gandi.net?referer=');">gandi.net</a> to give away.  I&#8217;ve used them as a registrar for 10 years now, and am very happy with them.  If you want to register a new domain name for free, post your reason in the comment section below and send me an email.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll select a winner by Monday March 22nd 2010 and email you the code.  You&#8217;ll then have until March 31st to register a domain before the code expires.  This code will be good for registering any of the following types of domain: .fr, .tel, .com, .net, .info, .me, .mobi, .uk, .be, .eu</p>
<p>And if you&#8217;re wondering what your chances of winning a free domain registration code is, it&#8217;s very good.  This site has only been live for about a month now and has barely any readers.  Chances are if you post a reasonably well thought our response in the comment section below, you&#8217;ll get a free domain registration code.  Good luck!</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s <a href="https://ten.gandi.net/faq" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/ten.gandi.net/faq?referer=');">the FAQ</a> for the gandi registration codes.  Entries will be judged on the creativity of comments.</p>
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		<title>Identifying the right font</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TechEnvy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my dayjob I design and direct animation for tv series and commercials.  Like anyone else who works in graphics or design there are a surprising number of times when I&#8217;m called upon to match a font.  In this case the client isn&#8217;t sure what font they are using for their identity, but it&#8217;s important that it remains the same.  [...]]]></description>
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<p>During my dayjob I design and direct <a href="http://filmblender.com/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/filmblender.com/?referer=');">animation for tv series and commercials</a>.  Like anyone else who works in graphics or design there are a surprising number of times when I&#8217;m called upon to match a font.  In this case the client isn&#8217;t sure what font they are using for their identity, but it&#8217;s important that it remains the same.  Now you could run through the list of fonts on your machine trying to find the right match, but that can be time consuming and not always successful.  So what&#8217;s a poor designer to do?</p>
<p>Enter <a href="http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/?referer=');">What the Font</a>, the brilliant online tool to compare and match fonts.  If you have an image of the font you need matched (tif, jpg or gif) you can upload it and quickly get possible matches displayed for you.  This works best if your source image is a greyscale tiff with a letter height of about 100 pixels, but even if your submission doesn&#8217;t match those parameters this utility is surprisingly effective.</p>
<p>And if the automated process doesn&#8217;t work they have a forum filled with helpful typography enthusiast that can help you identify the correct typeface.  Quick, free and easy to use.  What&#8217;s not to like?</p>
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