I’ve been unhappy with the old Picasa Wordpress widget for some time. I didn’t write it, I merely fixed some of the bugs. One of it’s failings (in my opinion) was that cached all the photos locally on your server, which required you to mess about with directory permissions and resulted in a copy of all the pictures sitting on your server.

I’ve come up with a new version, this fetches the photos dynamically from Picasa and has a few other new features. I use this widget myself on my blog, over on the left you can see it in action (Random Pics)

Feature Summary:

• Specify a list of albums to display photos from, no messing with RSS feeds, just enter the album names
• Choose your photos from your most recently uploaded
• Choose the thumbnail size
• Chose how many pictures to display

Download – Wordpress Widget Plugin for Picasa Photos 1.0

If you are installing this plugin and you are not familiar with the process, please refer to the instructions over at Wordpress.org. Also this plugin is designed to show photos from your Picsasa web albums, not the photos you have locally on your PC.

I’m an out and out geek, I hold my hand up and admit it. What can be more geeky than printing your own t-shirt designs with retro gaming stuff?

I’ve only done 2 so far but I’m pretty chuffed with the results.

That’s Jet Set Willy & the end of level 1 boss from R-Type (in case you were wondering)

I feel like such a nerd doing it, but it beats paying 30 quid for a half arsed design with something mind-numbingly predictable like Pac-Man or Space Invaders on. Yawn.

I used the transfer kits for dark fabric, from Rymans http://www.ryman.co.uk/T-Shirt-Transfers-227.asp
And some mega cheapy plain Primark T-Shirts; 2 quid a time, insane price…
I also picked up some transfer kits for light/white t-shirts but I’ve not played with them yet.

Another gadget for the Google Desktop, this one brings your Outlook tasks onto your desktop. You can interact with your tasks, add new ones and mark finished tasks as complete.

NOTE. Google are planning on removing the mechanism used by this gadget to communicate to Outlook. This means this gadget is no longer supported or updated by me. And in a future release of Google Desktop this gadget will stop working all together. Nothing I can do about this guys.

Download – Outlook Tasks Google Desktop Gadget v3.5.1 (more…)