Gadgets Galore

Design . . . Layout . . . Add a Gadget

Those three simple clicks will change your blog. You can create a poll or just add a picture or even add music to your blog with a gadget. Perhaps you'd like to link to your favorite web pages. There is a gadget for that. Want everyone to know your favorite books or movies? Put them in a list gadget. A follow by email gadget makes it easy for visitors to subscribe to email delivery when you publish a new post.

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And yes, you could possibly add a gadget and make some money. Wouldn't that be sweet!

Can you tell the difference?

In Gimp, an image manipulation program, one can edit photographs with a variety of different tools. Maybe you just need to switch the head on one family member to make your family portrait perfect. Gimp can help you with that. Perhaps, you'd like to blur the background on a picture. Yes, Gimp can make that happen too. Or possibly, you just want to trick your friends and shake up a picture. Well, if so, Gimp can do it for free. 

Can you find 5 things I changed from the original photograph? All of them were done with the help of Gimp. 

So, what is different in the picture? Here is the list:

                The middle window of the second row is different.

                The right window of the second row is different.

                The trees on the right of the building are shorter.

                The fence post on the right is shortened.

                Grass is covering the sidewalk on the left of the building.

Did you find them all?

Planning a family reunion?

If so, have you heard of Google Forms. Look at this form I created in a matter of minutes:






Google forms offers a template, and all you have to do is type in the questions and pick if you want fill-in the blank, multiple choice, or check boxes. Your family can fill it out and hit submit. Google will calculate the number of t-shirts and sizes for you. Now if they'd only help you get along with your family. Need more help? Huffington Post offers 6 tips on how to plan your next family reunion.

Making a how-to video

One can find a variety of how-to-videos on the internet. If you want to fix a washing machine or learn to crochet a hat, google "how-to" and help is on the way - well, video help. After making a how-to-video, I have a new appreciation for just how time consuming this can be. I made a video of how to make a subway art design in Microsoft PowerPoint.

Recording my computer screen was easy, but recording the instructions was a little more challenging. Audacity made it a little easier. Try this recording and editing program if you want to make a video recording. I made mistake after mistake and just edited them out. Go me!

A slideshow from PowerPoint

Do you want to put a slideshow on your blog? Not a problem. Create your slideshow in OneDrive, click share, and embed. Paste the code on your blog and let others watch your slideshow. This is a slideshow I created about photo editing. Enjoy!






And by the way, if you created your slideshow in PowerPoint on your computer, you can always upload it to OneDrive. It's quite simple to share your work.