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How to ensure facebook posts youtube links on homepage

This was really bugging me!
Youtube has “share on facebook” button, but it would only post on my profile but NOT on the homepage which means nobody ever sees my links but me…..ie POINTLESS!
Here is a screenshot showing the checkbox which needs to be ticked to share youtube videos on facebook

“Publish to Streams” MUST be ticked [...]

Scanning a C41 negative

Most scanning software will allow you to do all of this using “auto” settings, but that is quite boring and I prefer to do things “manually” as it gives a greater level of control over the final result.
The first step is to scan the negative.
Most people will select “scan as a negative” as that is [...]

Cleaning a laptop screen

Laptops these days seem to mainly have glossy shiny screens, unlike the original laptops of a few years ago which were mainly matt.
The trouble with glossy screens is that smears & smudges seem to be far more obvious and annoying.
Cleaning a glossy screen and ending up without any smudges is not that easy, but by [...]

Velvia 50 Cross Processed

This film certainly gives some interesting colours.
The slides look very red as shown here and when the colours are “inverted” to produce a positive image the result is a nice green shade!
Click this link to see the final result once the red negative is “inverted” to form a green “positive” image

Scanning an overexposed negative

here is a link to the image after the colours have been inverted in GIMP to turn a negative into a positive
http://www.flickr.com/photos/boliston/3822196687/

Take Care with Trampolines!

It was a bit showery yesterday in Exeter, and the ground was very muddy and slippery.   I noticed that there was a trampoline set into the ground and I managed to get quite a decent bit of height with each jump.

What I forgot was that before getting off the trampoline I should wait to stop [...]

Addicted

I’ve always been quite keen on rice pudding, but this is the best I have tasted so far:

As you can see my fridge is well stocked with the stuff.   Amazingly I noticed that a review by The Times Online gave it a very poor review.   Before this I had Muller Rice, but this tended to [...]

another test post

Just trying to get the hang of how wordpress works

testing

test blog edited