I'm a podcast listening freak. During a normal day I listen to anywhere from 2 to 8 hours of podcasts. Most of them are either technology or religion themed.

They make my day at work go by fast and I stay informed with the latest in technology news.

The following is a short list of the podcasts I really enjoy.

• Buzz out Loud
• The Real Deal
• This Week in Tech
• Cranky Geeks

If you know of any great technology podcasts (audio only for now, I still don't have my ipod video or maybe a new zune... hmm) let me know!

Sony and Amazon.com have both released handheld devices that are designed to replace paperback books.

Something tells me that this will not work. Why would I buy a $400 device to read a book on a screen. Personally I love to read and having a physical book is part of the satisfaction of reading. I can't imagine reading an entire book from a screen (even if it was less than $400!!!!).

Audio book format is more a reasonable idea to me. Occasionally I will listen to an audio book and I find it quite good, if the narration is done well. E-books are just to bizarre to me.

I feel sorry for both companies because I predict this will be a miserable failure.

I put all of my family pictures on the flickr web site, and then if I need to have a picture from my account in my blog posts I just add it from there. This is not a hard process but now I have made it easier with this little Extension.

To make this extension work you will need an API key from flickr. I already had one before since I use it to display my pictures directly from flickr on this site (See my Photos Page). If you don't have it yet, get it at flickr's Services Page once you log into your account. You will also need your flickr id which is a number that looks like 123456789@N00. Once you have these two things you can use this extension.

To set up the extension to work with your API key and your account details you need to change few things in the code. On line 25 in the code you will see
"http://www.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.getInfo&api_key=[KEY]&user_id=[ACC]&photo_id=[PHOTOID]"
Change the [KEY] to your API key and the [ACC] to your account details. You will notice that the url uses ?method=flickr.photos.getInfo this is the only function of the API we will use for this simple extension.

How does it work

First to make the extension work you will need to put in

The number is your picture id which your can get from flickr. (Its part of the url of every picture)

The extension converts this into a picture link to your flickr photo using the correct url information obtained from the XML file returned by the API method.

Download it and put it in your App_Code/Extensions/ and don't forget to change the [KEY] and [ACC] in the code.

FlickrPicture.zip (1.04 kb)

While stumbling away in the world wide web I came across this web site Mogulus.

I must say that my first impression from watching the tutorial videos is quite positive. The idea is super cool and I can just see me setting up a TV station where I would broadcast the day to day life of my wittle baby. This would make my relatives across the world very happy I assume.

I have signed up for the bata but no invitation came in yet! I'll keep you posted

My wife is becoming quite good at Photoshop I must say. She created this a while ago.