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We are "social media nomads", not like those who are travelling around the world and keeping their personal blog or vlog about it, but folks who try to survive in the jungle of social media services. We try to find best and cheapest place to share our creativity and hunger for inspiration. And what makes us as nomads is the fact that nothing seems to continue forever, especially not the social media services. Who remembers such communities as Multiply and My Opera? Who will soon remember Pan…

Currently on ipernity 'Photos' pages the following notice is shown on right margin: "It is recommended to have GPS data in the meta data (EXIF) of the images before the initial upload." The reason why this recommendation is given is that the Google Maps quota may become exceeded easily if many users search and use it get geolocation for already uploaded images. To avoid this it would help if more people would start to define geolocation before uploading the images. How to do that d…

Every now and then I test sharing private images only on groups, and get some interesting results. What I mean is that I keep the image as "Visible by: Me only", but then I share it on some group. What happens is that ipernity asks if I really do wish to share the image on the chosen group, and let other group members to see and comment the image. The test part is to find out if people actually view my image within the group context at all. And then the test reveals if the group is actually…

I decided to start a new article, which I will update every now and then. I collect here useful online services discovered on Web. ➽ Coblis — Color Blindness Simulator Useful tool for testing your images and graphs, to see how they look for someone who has some color vision handicap. ➽ Linguee A very useful service to find out how different words and phrases translate into other languages. Linguee gives examples of various contexts. Here's an example how English expression "o…

I am an administrator only on very few groups, but I still sometimes wish to have a tool that gives me a clear notice when a new comment becomes posted on some of the group discussions. The News > Your groups is not good in my opinion, because I still have to remember visit that page in order to stay up to date. So, I figured out I give a try to RSS feeds provided here at ipernity. Here's a short introduction and an example on how to use them. Install RSS feed reader extension…

Here are some useful sources to understand what all can be protected by copyright laws, and what copyright is about: Copyright rules by subject matter explained at Wikimedia Commons. And the same in French . Intellectual property wiki People often take the copyright lightly, ignores it, or simply don't know it very well. We easily refer to fair use , which more or less covers only cases in United States, but should not be stretched to cover publications globally shared on Inte…

This article has been published originally at My Opera community in 2012. I accidentally discovered an interesting editing technique. It requires an editing software where one can use layers and have the following layer modes. Here are the four layers I used and settings from top to down: Base duplicate: Turn into outline using 'Filters > Edge-Detect > Edge', invert, and change layer mode into 'soft light'. EDIT: Or try 'Filters > Artistic > Photocopy' and then change the layer mode in…

UPDATED on 25.9.2020 It looks like DownThemAll developers have been busy to get it running with FireFox (Mozilla) again . However, the Metalink format used here on ipernity is not supported ! This is why one still have to either 1) use other methods , 2) use SeaMonkey and an older version of DownThemAll, as instructed below, or 3) wait until one fine day we get the whole ipernity reprogrammed. If the following old versions of Seamonkey and DownThemAll compo is not an option f…

People often wonder how the images become picked to ipernity Explore . And here I try to figure it out and explain, as well as I can. The very first thing one needs to understand is that Explore is more or less an overview on what is popular during last few days. However, popularity is a tricky concept. One should keep in mind that what is popular may not match with any subjective or shared understanding on what is quality . If number of ipernity members like images of fences, or more p…

From Merle Plagge I have learned several great ideas for the hobby of amateur photography. One is to take (at least) one shot per day. This is a little different than to just participate into some 365 photography project. The idea is to take pictures for yourself, every day, till the day you die... =D Second idea is to have weekly themes every now and then. During one week you can for example shoot the same subject from different angles. Or test some features of your camera. Or try some pos…

Welcome to my new guestbook! Please add greetings below on comments. If you belong to my contacts as a friend, you can also include images. If not, you can always ask to become as my friend ;-)

I saw this rather interesting news shared on social media, and thought it may interest also peeps around here: ➽ Camera sales are falling sharply by Om Malik So, supposedly phone cameras are taking over. Whether this is a bad or good thing depends on the point of view. Someone could call that as a "progress", and some may see it as a "paradigm shift". Or it can be even a "philosophical revolution". We all can't be masters of photography and professionals, but that should not stop…

My favorite social media service MyOpera is closing down . I was desperately looking for a new home to publlish my pictures taken on daily bases. I am already using Google+ but for many reasons I hate it. It is way too bloated and complex. Then literally by accident I found this Ipernity. This seems to be very easy to use, it is easy to upload pictures, and has option to form groups. Free account is limited to 200 MB per month, and up to 1000 latest uploads displayed, but what the heck. The…

You can search somewhat anything on ipernity. But what you may not know are all the tweaks you can do to limit the search. Search for all cat photos (up to 1000) Write simply cat on top of the pages, onto field with "Search for people and more...", and select "Search for photos" from the drop down menu. www.ipernity.com/search/photo?w=0&q=cat The default search parameters then give you the most relevant photos where somewhere on the image title, caption, keywords or comment…

Once again I was switching the browser, this time from Opera to Chrome. I recalled the Stylish extension (add-on, plugin), which Spotomy recommended almost year ago: www.ipernity.com/blog/spo/4655884 Therefore I uploaded the latest Spotomy's dark style for ipernity also to userstyles.org. Now one should be able to get it into use more easily, and maybe also on more browsers. 1. First find and install Stylish extension for your browser (add-on, plugin): Chrome: chrome.google.com…

Ipernity supports only UTF-8 characters, and this is why we don't have the basic unicode emojis familiar today in our use. So, only way to get them is cumbersome "manual" way. First you will need a set of emoji pictures to work with: Then you have to crop, resize and save a single tiny image for every emoji you wish to use. For example like this: Then you just need to copy the HTML/BBCode of the emoji you wish to use from your album and paste it a…

Several things learned, when trying to figure out how to get a nice image on articles shared to Facebook and Twitter. Sharing an article I discovered that it is better to always embed a small thumbnail image onto the beginning of the article. Otherwise there becomes some arbitrary " widescreen_example.png " image retrieved from the s.ipernity.com, where also ipernity icons and JavaScripts are stored. UPDATE: It is better to put the image somewhere around second paragraph. Anyway…

Instructions on how to add a picture in picture notes. A. Go to image which you want to add as a note on another image. Choose 'See all sizes' from 'Actions' menu to get the code . Select the size you want. 500px wide image is recommended. Skip this if you wish to add text only onto the note. B. Go to image where you wish to add a n…

You may have used to get spell check on your browser. For some reason it does not seem to work on ipernity blog article editor. To enable spell check, click the 'Source' button on blog text editor toolbar before you publish the article. Do not mind about HTML code tags. Click 'Source' again after you have corrected the misspelled words underlined with red. And if you for some reason don't already have spell check on your browser yet, then go to browser settings to get one. On…