I set myself a mission the other day – to automatically post photos from flickr to wordpress.

I have my other blog set to update twitter when I add a new post to wordpress – but I didn’t want to have to go to Flickr and click “blog this” every time I upload a photo from my iPhone. I know I could just upload to wordpress but I dont trust my host enough so I always want to have as few files as possible to move hosts quickly!! – bad experiences ¬¬)

To cut a long story short heres what I do to autopost Flickr posts to WordPress:

Clone this yahoo pipe. I cloned and modified this from Manifest DeNsity.

Edit the pipe and replace the fetch feed with the url found at the bottom of your flickr page.
The structure will be something like this:

http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=38083777@N08&lang=en-us&format=rss_200

Find your ID here.

Save the pipe and run it. Click the “Get an RSS” link and burn that feed using Feedburner. Under the Optimize tab enable smart feed, this neatens the RSS feed up. You could skip this step but if you find theres some problems with importing the posts it could be because of this.

Install WP-O-Matic and follow the setup instructions. I’ve set my cron job to update every 6 hours. More info on how to do this can be found here

In the wp-o-matic admin add a new campaign using the feedburned URL. Select the Category you wish to post into – and your done!

This is one of the most invaluable things I’ve learnt about photoshop!

When your working on a design and you want to try out a particular font the last thing you want to do is close Photoshop and reopen it this little trick will let you reset your fonts and add any new ones you’ve installed to the font list.

I always start a new text layer – otherwise your paragraph/character settings are lost on your current text selection (press T and click anywhere on the document) then go to Window > Character

Click the little icon with the three lines and the down arrow in the top right hand corner of the Character Pallet, then select Reset Character and all your new fonts will be added to the list!

Making a skirt, no sewing required!

This is what the skirt will look like:

1. Buy a length of material from a fabric shop – it can be whatever you want. I bought a metre and a half just to be sure I had the right amount.

Lay out the material and fold it lengthways so you have a long thin rectangle

3. Measure using a piece of string from above your hips (the widest bit) to wherever you want the skirt to end.

Tie the piece of string to a pen/pencil/fabric marker and starting where you know the pen wont go over the edges of the material draw a semi circle.

Cut along this line – you now have a circle – but don’t unfold it yet!

4. Fold the circle in half vertically and then diagonally.

5. Cut a rounded quarter circle about 2inches from the point of the folded fabric – you should have two concentric circles.

Then all you need to do is force yourself into it – head first! You may need to make a slight rip in the waist to get in but once you’ve done that it’s easy enough to get in and out of it!