I love TweetDeck, the facility that allows you to see quickly and easily the various people you are following on Twitter.
I know people think Twitter is just a waste of time for people with nothing better to do with themselves but I strongly disagree. If you have any interests at all, whether it be bird watching, cycling or reaggae music, you will defintely find some really interesting people and resources by using Twitter.
You can use Twitter Search and put in the search term that you are seeking and you are bound to find some really useful and fascinating people using Twitter.
If you then add them to your TweetDeck you will be able to see, periodically, the latest Tweet posts that they have made. By doing so you will find a whole bunch of really interesting information and resources that you would otherwise probably not come across.
At college, (all those hundreds of years ago!!) we endured a subject called “Information Technology”, which, in the days when personal computers were not even in existance, was the most boring subject imaginable.
The “Technolgy” bit was fine, but there was no “Information”. I absolutely hated it. But now, using these faboulous developments such as Twitter, etc, etc, Information Technology is the lifeblood of the Internet.
“What’s this got to do with Nile Cruise Photos and Costco?” I can hear you say…
Well yesterday, from a Twitter post, I came across a wonderful site belonging to a really interesting and talented man called Kirk Mastin.
The first post I came across was a description of how Kirk uses his iPhone to take photographs and then, using Costco’s Desktop Kiosk facility sends his chosen photographs to his local Costco, (in the US), to print out for him, at sizes reaching 18 x 12, for just $2.50.
So, knowing that Costco have various branches in the UK I went onto their site, (www.costco.co.uk) and found that they operate the same system in the UK and that you can have 18 x 12 prints made for just £2.50!!
How good is that?
So if you have some really good photos from your Nile Cruise that you would like to do something special with then why not use Kirk’s method, email them over to your local Costco and get some really big prints made showing them off in all their glory. They even have a “Canvas” option where you can have them made into really big canvas prints.
To read more about Kirk’s idea please visit his site, it’s full of great ideas and examples of his photography.
By the way, the way I found Kirk’s site was because I was searching on Twitter for things about the Flip HD Digital Video Camera that I’ve just bought and Kirk had a “Tweet” that came up because he’s an enthusiastic user of the Flip too.
