YouTube

I use YouTube regularly to look for music and comedy, so I thought I'd share this little gem with you...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyLTqBARFt8

Again it's quite straightforward to use, although I've sometimes had trouble uploading videos (but that could have more to do with my browser than with YouTube).

Podcasting

We subscribe to a number of podcasts through iTunes at home, but I hadn't yet added any to my Google account. I went to the BBC list as I listen to the radio quite a lot, and found some comedy to listen to. It was very easy to use - I clicked on the link for one of the programmes on the list and chose to add it to Google Reader. When I clicked on the new link in Google Reader, it opened the programme in Windows Media Player.

Delicious, part II

The next stage was to look at Delicious Networks. I thought I'd try joining the one at work to start with, as I already knew what their network ID was (lawbod). It was very straightforward to link, and now I can access bookmarks that will be useful for work as well as my own.

Delicious, part I

I think Delicious could be especially useful - I use something similar at the moment, and it saves time being able to find everything in one place and link to other people's lists as well. I set up an account and started adding bookmarks, giving them tags I hoped would be relevant.

Picnik

Starting to get behind! But I did manage to have a go at Picnik today. I really liked it - it was completely idiot-proof, and I didn't have to register and learn yet another username and password. The functions are quite basic in terms of photo editing, but for touching up photos or having a bit of fun with colour and saturation (see my er... efforts!) it works well. I also liked that you can link to lots of different places at once - flickr, facebook, and even just photos you've got saved on your hard drive or USB stick.

Flickr

I've been meaning to sign up to Flickr for a while now so this finally gave me the excuse to do it. It was very straightforward to sign up and add pictures (although it did mean creating a Yahoo ID - another password to remember!). I need to get some more photos off my laptop at home, but I put up one holiday pic I had and a few of some of the origami jewellery I've been making, which I put into a set called 'origami bits and bobs'. Once I've got some more photos on here I can set about the next task of editing them in picnik.

Google Reader

I have set up a Google Reader account and begun adding RSS feeds to it. I already subscribe to some through a Pageflakes account so I found it fairly straightforward to add new feeds to my Google account. I have a mixture of work-related and fun sites at the moment, and hope to add more as I find them.