Mini-Browser or Asset Manager on Steroids

testing testing … one, two ..three!!
lookie at what I can do..
here’s a picture of ME!
(me)

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

It does work, Thanks Martin!

Debbie is always testing us.

(Get gas)

I’m a picture taker also Debbie.

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

Sherrill is funny :)

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Thanks Martin

All we need now is a spelling checker!!!!!!!

-- Tony - All things are possible, just some things are more difficult than others! - SKYPE: Heron2005 (http://www.poydatjatuolit.fi)

Here’s a test…

This is a drive in restaurant near where my wife grew up…

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

lol I wonder what kind of customers they got stopping here???! !!!

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Hey guys, if you want a spell checker, use Firefox 2.0. If you type a word that is spelled incorrectly, it gets underlined in red in any form you are filling out on a webpag !

If you right click on the underlined word, you get options for spelling, including adding to dictionary. A word that is conspicuously absent is Lumberjocks!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

I use Google tool bar and there is a spellchecker built into it.

Martin: I also use LumberJocks toolbar. The mini-browser looks great.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Cool!

-- Bob, Carver Massachusetts, Sawdust Maker http://www.capecodbaychallenge.org

Lick A Chick? That like canadian KFC (KPF in Que)... or a tasty way to cool down on a hot summer day?

I’m not using an online photo host, so this doesn’t exaclty fit my needs, though i’ll play around and see how it can come in handy.

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

If your on internet explorer download this IE spellchecker, it’s free.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

cool…my turn…

Wow…that is a huge phot of my MUG…enjoy!!!!!!

-- Matt, Napa, CA...fun is beautiful...just trying to have some fun...

so…why cant i just add pictures straight from my computer—-in my “My pictures” folder??? like I can when i load 3 photos on a project…

-- Matt, Napa, CA...fun is beautiful...just trying to have some fun...

aaaaaaaaaaaw !!
why? Cause. It’s just the way it is :)
I think Martin said earlier this week that the two areas of the site are set up differently. Apples and oranges.

KFC .. finger lickin good.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Matt,

the project and workshop pictures were originally the only pictures available here on the LJ. The reason is that we have picture viewer directly in these 2 kinds of posts and you cannot even post a project without the picture.

Later our content text areas got enhanced with the rich formatting options – bold, italics, links images… From that moment it was possible to embed the images directly into these texts – project stories, comments, replies etc. (the ones with little B, I… buttons above).

Embedding picture means – find a picture that is already online on the Internet and enter its special code into your content.

Yes, it would be possible to create special asset manager here on LJ that would allow you to upload your pictures/videos directly from your computer and then embed these into your writings. Let’s see why this is not implemented still:

1. Specialized photo and video sharing sites offer you excellent asset management tools as well as easy copy-paste sharing codes. Implementation of these management features (e.g. resizing, format conversions, organization into albums) would require lots of development hours and constant maintenance. Remember that photo and video sharing is the core business of the sites like flickr, photobucket, blip, youtube…
2. Having our own asset manager would dramatically increase the costs of files storage as well as bandwidth
3. I believe that it is much better to manage your pictures or videos on these specialized 3rd party sites because of the reasons mentioned in the point #1. Plus you can use your assets anywhere on the Internet – not just on LumberJocks.

These sites offer free accounts for low-volume users so it is easy to create the account on one of the recommended ones and try it in action. And once you become comfortable with your favorite site our mini-browser will provide you the easy access to your media library.

Who knows – maybe we will have our own asset manager in the future but right now I think this is ideal solution…

-- Martin, http://lumberjocks.com | My Facebook: http://profile.to/msojka

Hey folks.. so how is this working for you so far ?

-- Martin, http://lumberjocks.com | My Facebook: http://profile.to/msojka

this is working nice…and thanks for the explanation on the technical reasons for not having an LJ asset manager—-could you imagine how big the storage would need to be…you would need to build a workshop just to store all the extra computers…I am picturing in my mind IBM in the 1950’s size computers!

-- Matt, Napa, CA...fun is beautiful...just trying to have some fun...

Martin probably already has a server farm set up in his den for that! haha..just kidding Martin. I am sure your bandwidth usage is already large just with project pictures postings you do have.

Thanks again for the great improvements.

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

Martin is it possable to put the current address that the mini browser is showing in the address window.

If I go to Rockler and look for a product, I then want to capture the address and post it in a blog. But it has the address that I entered as the first search. It doesn’t seem to be ever changed.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Karson, this is not possible technically.. but – when on the previous page – you can click on the link (e.g. product link) with the right mouse button and select either ‘Copy Link Location’ (in Firefox) or ‘Properties’ (in Internet Explorer). That will do the trick and is a standard way of getting the destination links. Hope this helps.

-- Martin, http://lumberjocks.com | My Facebook: http://profile.to/msojka

Matt, cute kid!

-- Jesus is Lord!

Matt, our newest/youngest LumberJock?

-- Carpe Lignum - Seize The Wood,

Hi Martin:
If I could make an observation it would be this:
By depending on outside – 3rd party storage- of data critical to your archives and day to day uses of the site you also expose your site to the possibility that one or more storage based sites either change their format or heaven forbid, as in the past, simply go out of business.
The second and probably most challenging thing is that people are always upgrading and or adjusting thier media as opportunity presents so you could find that the links to many of your projects here and everyday chats can become broken.

One of the most usefull applications of the internet is the ability to search and recover infomation in a timely and efficient manner. That becomes quite challenge if the data base is changing continously.
I note that Woodcentral for example has addressed this problem by setting aside an area to archive their most precious assets.

p.s. kudos to you Martin for building a very productive and modern webisite!

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

Thanks for the observation and kudos, Bob. Very good points!

-- Martin, http://lumberjocks.com | My Facebook: http://profile.to/msojka