The George Lite Zone

You'd have thought, that with Picasa being a Google product, the task of uploading a photo from a Picasa album to your blogger profile would be relatively straightforwards. Well it's not too onerous a task, but you need to know a few things to do it. First you need the image you want to use loaded into Picasa . Once you've done this, view the photo in Picasa and click on Link to this Photo. You'd have thought that you would copy the URL displayed under "Paste link in email or IM " and used this in your blogger profile, but alas no. Instead copy the HTML shown under "HTML to embed in website ". Paste it into notepad or some other suitable editor, then copy the URL shown between the quotes of the href . Now bring up the Blogger Dashboard and click on Edit Profile . Scroll down to Photograph and paste in the URL you copied earlier. Press Save Profile Huzzah!!! You now have your chosen Picasa photo as your profile picture. I'm sure Google will get t...

Here's my first effort at adding video content to this blog and a step by step, rung by rung (apologies to Huey Lewis), description of what I did to do it. First I videoed Buffy using my phone I then copied the video to my PC and uploaded it to You Tube . I then copied the video's Embeded HTML to the clipboard I then posted a new post on this , clicked on the Edit HTML tab and pasted in the HTML copied in the previous step. And finally Cyril, I added this text to the post to finish things off. Give it a try. You too can be a multi-media megastar (or your cat can).