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!

Inspired by a kwip by Mayank I thought I’d share with you my google reader list.

Click to Download.

My RSS list is very diverse but nicely categorised – all you need to do is import it to your RSS feed!

If you feel like sharing your RSS feed list feel free to link to it in the comments – I’m always on the lookout for new blogs!