If you want to export photographs from Picasa to Gallery or Flickr, you might want to populate the comment, copyright and caption data in the photo. This might get a bit technical, but here goes…

1. Download exiv2-0.13-win.zip
2. Unzip and place the exiv2 in the directory where your .jpg pics are located
3. Open notepad and type the following

@echo off
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
FOR /R %%f IN (*.jpg) do (
set FILE=!FILE!%%f
set SHFILE=!SHFILE!%%~nf
echo "SHFILE IS " !SHFILE!
echo Processing "File" !FILE!
exiv2 -k -M"set Iptc.Application2.Caption !SHFILE!" -m copyright.txt "!FILE!"
set FILE=
set SHFILE=
)
4. Save this file as nmtocap.bat and place it in the same directory as the jpgs and the exiv2.exe

5. Double click the nmtocap.bat file. That is it. Now, open Picasa and you will observe that the captions are modified.

NOTE:

1) Omiting -k will change the timestamp on your files
2) If you want to see the result of the modification, instead of Step 5, open a cmd prompt and navigate to the directory where the pics are stored. Type in “nmtocap.bat” at the command prompt and in copyright.txt, you put

set Iptc.Application2.Copyright "My CopyRight Notice"

THEN once all that is done, if you want to populate the JPEG comment section with a longer copyright, you browse thumbnails in Irfanview (with the irfanview plugins installed), select all, go to JPEG lossless operations, insert comment, and off you go!

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This strange little square in the corner of my monitor was causing me a little worry, until I searched on newsgroups and found that it is a bug in the ATI graphics card drivers version 8.1

So nothing to worry about - just posting this in case anyone else is wondering what it is!

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If you get a blank page when downloading attachments from gmail, here are some possible solutions..

From:  http://tmp.garyr.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7938
workaround 1:
open TMP options > Links > Prevent blank tabs when downloading files >
EDIT
and remove from the list the line /disp=attd&view=att/
workaround 2:
lock the tab
workaround 3:
Ctrl-click or middle-Click on the Download link
Workaround #1 worked for me…

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So, it’s official - as anyone who ever stepped outside their front door already new…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/7206476.stm

and

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/7209549.stm

Police target child crime gangs

A baby less than a year old was among 10 children taken into care after a police operation targeted gangs who used youngsters to pick pockets. Officers from several forces, including the Metropolitan Police, raided 17 addresses across Slough, Berkshire.

At least 25 adults were held, accused of immigration breaches, deception, fraud, theft and pick-pocketing.

The inquiry surrounds child trafficking from Romania and the welfare of the children involved.

Once again, the immigration policies of this wretched government have lead to more wretched lives through child trafficking and organised crime. Well done, NuLabor!

BTW, I see that despite above-inflation council tax rises, many councils are having to cut services to pay for mass immigration. That’ll be the benefits we are brainwashed into believing we’re getting, right?

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A bit of nerd stuff here, hope it can help others!

I’ve updated the things which drive this site - Wordpress, Gallery, WPG2 and the theme, vSlider.

There are a couple of problems which crept in, mainly that where a gallery item was added via WPG2 in a Wordpress post, I was seeing:

Error (ERROR_BAD_PARAMETER) : Smarty error: The template ‘modules/imageframe/templates/containers/ImageFrame.tpl’ does not exist.

As usual, the good people on the gallery forum came to help in this post, the solution being:

cd wordpress_directory/wp-content/plugins/wpg2/
ln -s ../../../../gallery2/modules/ modules

(note the space between modules and modules above - also, change the symlink depending on your installation).

Another problem I had was either

Configuration Error: Missing Theme
Missing Theme

This album is configured to use the vSlider3 theme, but it is either inactive, not installed, or incompatible. To fix this problem you can either choose a new theme for this album or install or activate this theme.

Or

This theme can only be viewed when embedded in WordPress and using vSlider 3

Again, the answer lay in this thread

Try changing line 158 of gallery/themes/vSlider3/theme.inc to

if(include('../../../wp-config.php')) {

or if you have wp-config.php in wordpress/ then make it

if(include('../../../wordpress/wp-config.php')) {

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