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Keep in Touch

Published
by
Andy
on January 23, 2007
in Administrative
. 3 Comments

I was thinking of another way we could all stay in touch and chat via the computer and then it hit me. At CashCentral.com, we use Windows Live Messenger to stay in touch during the day. This is a nice tool. Instead of a phone call, Sandy will chat with me via the Internet to see when I’ll be home, what we’re having for dinner, or various other threats and to-dos.

Here’s how to make it work:

1. Download Windows Live Messenger at this link.

2. Install.

3. Register.

4. Add contacts (i.e. to add me you would put andym@cashcentral.com).

Any questions, let me know.

Blog Posting Helpful Hints at Flickr

Published
by
Andy
on January 7, 2007
in Administrative
. 2 Comments

For anyone that still has questions on how to do a spic and span, perfect post at the Dwight Cook Family Blog, follow this link to Flickr and check out the notes on the picture. As always, if you have questions, just let me know. Have a great Sunday and a great week.

By the way, Flickr can now have unlimited uploads and sets and is really awesome (just ask Elder Cook) and will save - as you probably already can tell - load times on the homepage of this blog. I will email you all the username and password.

Flickr is Freaking Fun!

Published
by
Andy
on December 22, 2006
in Administrative
. 4 Comments

So, this is how you would post using Flickr. You’d say some text like you normally do. Blah, blah, blah, this picture is of us in the summertime when we were all tan and didn’t look like the living dead. Why didn’t I photoshop this? Maybe I’ll go back and retouch them. Blah blah blah. Here’s a picture of our family, you can see the rest of them at Flickr.

When you go to Flickr, please note the comments below the pictures and the notes within the picture (mouseover the picture to see where the notes are). These are all cool features, I think. Also, give it a shot for your next post. If you like it, let’s try it out. I think you guys will and I think you’ll enjoy the page loading much quicker.

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Merry Christmas & Thank You!

Published
by
Andy
on December 22, 2006
in Administrative and Just Saying Hi
. 6 Comments

I realize I’ll be seeing all of you tomorrow at the family Christmas party, but I wanted to publicly tell each of you how much I appreciate and value your friendship and love. Yeah, I know, I know. Mushy. But people always talk about what a husband and wife must do to keep the fire burning and one thing that never gets mentioned, at least very often, is extended family. I can honestly say that all of you feel like true family to me and I think that’s because we’re all friends. I’ve told Sandy on several occasions the friendship I feel toward you isn’t because of obligation. It’s real and I think we could all be friends if we weren’t connected via marriages. It’s something I treasure and hold dear. So, honestly, thanks.

Also, thanks for making this site so fantastic. I love the banter that goes on between us. So far we have 195 posts and, even better, 822 comments. Keep it up.

Lastly, one small item of business for 2007.

I know we’ve had some issues with photos loading and photo size and some confusion in that arena altogether. Another concern is oftentimes the homepage takes an extremely long time to load because of how many pictures are uploaded in a post. I don’t want to discourage people from posting pictures because that’s what this blog is for, however, here’s my idea:

Write a post and put one picture on the post to “tease” and then upload the rest to a Flickr account I created for the family. You can access Flickr by going to Flickr.com and signing in with the username fredoteabaggins and the password norman32. From there, it’s quite simiple. Just go to upload photos and then put the link in your post. I’ll do a sample post to illustrate what I mean. Some other cool things about Flickr are the ability to add notes inside the picture (I’ll illustrate) and the not-so-good thing is that if we want unlimited bandwith and uploads every month, it’s $24.95 per year. However, split between eight households that equates to 26 cents per month, which, I pray, everyone can manage. :)

Hopefully you all think this is a good idea. If not, please email your complaints to crymeariver@youhavenochoice.com.

Just kidding. I love all of you.

Fun in the Snow

Published
by
Jenny Cook
on December 3, 2006
in Administrative, Grandchildren and Photos
. 19 Comments

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I don’t know how to do these pictures, still, sorry. Anyway, we had some good times this week in the snow and yes that is Charly’s face somewhere in the picture, the cute little snowball!

 

Blog Stats

Published
by
Andy
on November 19, 2006
in Administrative
. 10 Comments

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for making this site a big success. Currently, as of right now, there are 156 posts and 569 comments contained within those posts. A website is only as good and as valuable as the people who read and contribute. I have some new things I’ll be working into the site and I’ll post about one soon, but for now, thanks for coming and using the site!

Flickr

Published
by
Andy
on September 16, 2006
in Administrative
. 0 Comments

I’ve found a cool way for all of us to share photos, especially D&B, on the Internet. You may have heard of this tool, it’s called Flickr. Simply put, Flickr is an online photo album, allowing you to upload photos, give them titles and descriptions, as well as organize them into sets. There are several other cool features that you can read about and play around with. I’d recommend signing up (it’s free!) and then email me the URL for your photo album (see mine below) and I’ll post it on your family page.

NOTE: Dwight and Barbara, if you register for this, I will work your account directly into the main portion of the blog, so you can upload mass amounts of photos, add titles, descriptions and they will be available in a refreshed “Photos” section of the blog - streaming right from your Flickr account. 

Click here to register at Flickr.

You can view my Flickr photo page at this link and use it as an example of how to set up your Flickr page. But remember! No laughing!!

As always, if you have questions - drop me a line via email or give me a call.

Group Email

Published
by
Andy
on September 13, 2006
in Administrative
. 3 Comments

If you want to send an email to the entire family, you have two options:

1. If you use Outlook, just click on the email everyone link on the “Contact” page and Outlook will automatically populate a new email with the addresses listed in the link.

2. If you use web-based email (Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo) or you use the web to view your email (like D&B do to access Dwight’s emails via a webmail program), simply right-click the email everyone link on the “Contact” us page and then select “copy email addresses.” Then create a new email message and paste the email addresses in the “TO:” field.

Let me know if you run into trouble.

Commenting Fixed

Published
by
Andy
on September 10, 2006
in Administrative and Just Saying Hi
. 2 Comments

I’ve fixed it so you can post as many comments as you want, whenever you want. You will now never (I pray) see the message that tells you to “slow down cowboy.” Sandy was so excited that she told me I was as cool as the guy pictured below.

Hope your Sunday was fantabulous. I’d also like to mention the Giants got hosed by the refs and Jake Plummer of the Broncos is not good. At all. Oh, and Mike Shanahan’s teeth have to be the 8th Wonder of the Word.

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Email Updates & RSS Feeds

Published
by
Andy
on September 8, 2006
in Administrative
. 0 Comments

Boyd asked me if there is a way to receive email updates from the blog. I added an email subscription and RSS feeds to the blog today. If you look on the sidebar, near the bottom, there is a place to insert your email address, doing this will allow you to receive an email update any time a new post appears on the site.

As for RSS feeds, this is something I’ve found to be handy and is a two-step process:

1. Download a RSS feed reader. A list of the web’s best feed readers is here.

2. Subscribe to RSS feeds. Pretty much any site worth its salt has an RSS feed nowadays.

For more explanation on RSS feeds and feed readers, check out this article.

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