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PicLyf is a free photo sharing site. USE IT. OWN IT. PESTER YOUR FRIENDS WITH IT.
I have been abusing PicLyf for more than a month now and I think it’s just about time to blog about this free photo sharing service.
PicLyf is an online photo sharing site which not only allows you to upload and share unlimited photos but also helps you pester your friends (and enemies) from different social networking sites by simultaneous updates to Facebook, Twitter, Plurk, Tumblr, WordPress, Blogger and even to another photo sharing site Flickr. How cool is that!
I first read about PicLyf when Yugatech launched part of his Lenovo contest last November (I thought he’d have the Angel badge now but he has not). I tried registering an account with my Facebook user ID and the rest is history. Now I got so hooked that I couldn’t even update my Facebook or Twitter accounts without worrying my online friends I might be dying or dead.
But PicLyf does all the updating. I just had to upload a photo in PicLyf together with my thoughts and PicLyf will do automatic updates to my Facebook wall and Twitter page. And since Twitter updates whatever I tweet to this blog’s Facebook page, those who like this blog on Facebook will always have something to read. Even my extinct Tumblr blog goes back to life continuous photo updates. I’m still thinking whether I should link PicLyf with my defunct WordPress blog so that, too, would be crawled again by those pesky Google spiders.
Also, PicLyf allows me to hotlink on their hosted photos on my blogs so I’m now officially ditching Flickr asks you to upgrade to a Pro account to get past their 200 photo limit and creating multiple Flickr accounts is too much of a task.
In hotlinking PicLyf photos on my blog posts, I used to right click » view background image » copy image URL and do all the img scr hardcoding and stuff until one of the PicLyf admins told me about the existence of the <> link which would give you the complete embed codes. Look for it near the top left corner of your uploaded photo, just below the PicLyf logo.
And PicLyf have cool virtual badges. As of now I earned 9 10 13 and I’ll have more in the days to come. Hover on the badges to know what they are.
But don’t expect to received parcels from the FedEx, though. They’re not actual badges, they’re virtual. 
Now all we need is a WordPress plugin or a script generator for us to be able to brag our PicLyf Gallery in our blogs and websites.
Just when I have finally got my resolve to move my food blog to Blogger, Elegant Themes has just added two new wordpress themes on their membership gallery.
But this is exactly the reason why I moved out from WordPress to Blogger – WordPress has just too much wordpress themes and plugins and I can’t stop myself from changing themes and adding plugins to pump-up the blogs’ visual appeal. HAHAHA
Elegant Themes is a WordPress Membership site which allows members to download all the available wordpress themes in the gallery for just US$20 a year.
“And all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together again.” – Mother Goose
I just completed moving my food blog from WordPress platform to Blogger (a.k.a. Blogspot) over the weekend. The reason? Nothing really mind boggling, I just got fed off with all the functionality of WordPress courtesy of it’s native functions and the thousands of available plugins. There are just so many things you could to with your blog when you’re running it under WordPress. The possibilities are just tremendously infinitie, there are so many things you could do to the point that your blog starts losing it’s purpose – blogging. HAHAHA!
Really, I got tired of trying everything so I decided to make things simple so I moved it to Blogger. The moving process is actually such a breeze now – you could just export your WordPress contents using the Wordress Export Tool and convert it to Blogger complatible XML file using the tool from this page. The instructions are already there so I’ll give myself the comfort of not having to re-write the whole tutorial article.
Next, when you create your Blogger blog, just click the link and follow the instructions to import your previously converted XML file.
And if you want to place Adsense or other third-party ads without using the built it Blogger monetization function, you could follow the tool and steps described on this page.
I have followed those instructions carefully, pointed the domain to the Blogger blog and there – Hungry Husband is now running under the Blogger platform. Unfortunately, during the WordPress Export process, I forgot to delete all comments marked as spam so they were all carried out when I imported the entries. Now I don’t even know how to remove unwanted comments in Blogger. HAHAHA!
If you have any idea, please put them in the comment section below. Thanks!
