TinyPic replaces TinyFx with Categories!
September 11, 2008
Not to worry! TinyFx isn’t gone…it’s just relocated. As a TinyPic member, you can still create TinyFx using your images. But on the Home page, the TinyFx option has been replaced with a Categories option.
The Home page displays Featured Categories of images and videos. Click Categories at the top, or click More>> to the right of the Featured Categories title to see all the TinyPic categories. Each category has a headline image and a list of sub-categories. Click the magnifying glass icon in the corner of a headline image to view that specific image.
Can you believe it’s back to school time already?
September 8, 2008
Gigya!
September 2, 2008
I just love that word. “Gigya!” It makes me think of Glen Quagmire (giggity) on Family Guy® and Kramer (giddy up!) on Seinfeld. But really, Gigya is a company that provides free Wildfire technology for sharing and tracking your company’s widget. The Wildfire technology supports more than 50 destinations, including:
- Social networks, including Facebook
- Blog platforms
- Start pages
- Desktops
Which is why we are using it on TinyPic! Gigya allows you to post images and videos to a multitude of sites or email images and videos to a host of your friends.
- Go to http://tinypic.com, and choose the image or video you want to share or post. Log into your account if you want to use your own content. Below Tools or Your Toolbox on the left, you can see the Gigya widget:
- Choose the location to which you want to post the selected content, or click the Email link to email the content.
- Follow the instructions for your selected option.
There you go! Nice feature, isn’t it? The better news is that you can use Gigya within videos that you play on TinyPic! So, let’s say you are watching a video on TinyPic. Click the hyperlink icon at the bottom. The Gigya options display, and you can post, bookmark, or email the video, as well as copy the code if you want to embed it in your own web page!
Tinypic at the DNC
August 28, 2008
I uploaded all of these from my phone to my Tinypic account this afternoon.
My Album of Pics walking around the DNC in Denver
Moved! Or: “Buy my house on Craigslist”
August 22, 2008
Update: Offer countered, counter accepted. Everything went relatively smoothly. How nice is that?!
And now, we have the pleasure of having two houses. Ha ha ha. Not a pleasure. 
We moved out of the old house, into the new one (mostly), and then we had to get our old house ready to sell. Which means any spare time is spent working on the old house, not unpacking at the new. BUT we’ve listed it. Woo hoo!
I’m got my house pics on TinyPic (naturally), in an album: http://tinypic.com/useralbum.php?ua=tQj3BUoTqy17cc0bbG%2FTrA%3D%3D.
I also have it listed on the MLS, on zillow.com, and Craigslist.
The best thing about the Craigslist ad is that I don’t have to upload my photos again. I copied the HTML code for each image from TinyPic, pasted it directly in the ad, and the images display!
October 6, 2008: Final update: Sold! Closed on Oct 3.
Epic Bacon
August 20, 2008
Find more fun images at http://tinypic.com/categories
O Canada! You’ve got medals!!!
August 17, 2008
So Kristi hasn’t done her rowing yet (She starts on the 18th). BUT, it turns out that rowers are good in Canada. One gold, one silver, and two bronze in rowing! AND, a bronze in swimming and a gold and a bronze in wrestling! Ah ha! Our sports just hadn’t come up last week.
Note: Kristi is a kayaker. I should’ve known that…her “boat” looks like the one in the pic below, from another TinyPic user, tagged “kayak 01″:
O Canada! Not an Olympic medal in sight…
August 13, 2008
As the title may’ve tipped you off, I’m Canadian. And when you live in the USA, television coverage focuses on the USA. Unless a Canadian is really good at an Olympic sport, I don’t get to watch many Canadian athletes. Naturally, the reverse is true about the television coverage in Canada. All Canada, all the time, unless the USA is good at a sport. Hmm. Canadians are seeing a lot of U.S. athletes 
(Search for Olympics at TinyPic to see the photos and videos!)
BUT, what I find depressing is that although Canada sends athletes to the summer Olympics, you’d never know it from our medal standings. We’ve won…oh, right. NO MEDALS. Even Togo has a medal (their first ever! – “On August 12, 2008, Benjamin Boukpeti (a Frenchman representing the nation) won a bronze medal in the Men’s K1 Kayak Slalom, the first ever medal for Togo at the Olympics.” 1. Wikipedia). Not to diminish Togo’s accomplishment. It’s fantastic and exciting for them. I’d just like to see Canada get a medal or two in the summer Olympics. We won 12 total in the 2004 Olympics. Maybe our events haven’t happened yet.
So, I’m pinning my hopes on my cousin’s girlfriend: Kristin Gauthier! It would be amazing to know someone who’s won a medal. Not that it’s not amazing to know someone who’s so good at something that she’s IN the Olympics.
Looking at Moving…
August 13, 2008
So we’re looking at moving; me and my spouse, not TinyPic. And it sure is hard. How do you know you are buying the right location? I know we are buying the right house. We’ve been looking on and off, with different degrees of desire, for the last eight years. You’d think in eight years we could find something, but sadly, we have champagne tastes on a Gruet budget. That’s not all bad. Gruet is a great, dry sparkling wine.
To make a long story, well, probably still long, we wanted to do something on the piece of land we currently own. We have a 2 bed/1 bath house, with an enormous elm tree (on the right).
Check out the house album at: http://tinypic.com/useralbum.php?ua=tQj3BUoTqy17cc0bbG%2FTrA%3D%3D
It’s smaller than most people’s apartments. We wanted to add on to our house, or scrape our house and put up a new house. But the process is daunting. Find a good architect. Like a house that fits on your lot and is big enough that it will sell for what you put into it. Move out for 6 months to a year. Put most of your stuff in storage. Move twice. Hope your builder doesn’t go over budget. You get the idea.
But now that we’ve found a place and put in an offer, we’re second guessing ourselves. Should we wait for a year, save up more money and THEN do something with our house? Will we hate the new location? (It’s only 0.5 mi from our current location). Will we like our neighbors? Is the neighborhood as good as our current one? The house is certainly WAY better. Will the house appreciate at the same rate? It’s all very stressful.
And this is before our offer’s been accepted! Provided it is, there will be the stress of closing, packing, moving, selling our current house (or maybe holding onto it b/c I really wish we were still living on that specific piece of ground, but not in that house). On the bright side, we’ll have a house that’s actually big enough to have guests, and a dog, and our wedding presents upstairs instead of on a shelf in the basement! And no furniture (that could be a plus or minus, depending on how much I like furniture shopping), and a patio, and space for entertaining. After I get used to it, although I’ll think fondly of our old location, maybe I’ll be fond of the new location, too.
Survey Time – How is TinyPic Doing?
August 8, 2008
Occasionally, we like to learn directly from our users what they like about TinyPic, what they don’t, and what they would like to see TinyPic become. To do this we have implemented a survey that you can see from the main page.
Please help us to make this a product that is helpful to you by taking a few minutes to take the survey. You can click here to do so.
