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8 of the Best Video Widgets

// October 20th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Blogging, Cool Links, Design Resources, Flash, For Geeks, I recommend, Movies, Music, News, Reality TV, The Best of.., Useful, Videos, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins, politics, web tools, webmaster


Here are some of the best video plugins and widgets I found online..Enjoy!

  • Daiko’s YouTube Widget for Wordpress – Adds a sidebar widget to display a defined number of random YouTube videos of your own choice. Make your own videolist in the widget-control-panel. The widget also supports RSS-feeds from tag(s) and user(s).
  • Video Widget for Wordpress - Add more than 25 types of video in your sidebar. Only video Id is required (no HTML code to paste).
  • Blinkx Video Wall. This widget sort of makes you feel like a security guard at the mall, except that you choose what content the monitors are filled with. Type in some keywords, select the size you want the widget to be, and voila! Blinkx goes out and finds video relevant to your search and tiles the results.(see below, you can either get the embed code from wigetbox or from the blinkx.com website.)
  • Youtube Videos by yourminis – The YouTube widget allows you to view videos from YouTube. You can completely customize the appearance of the widget by clicking on the color picker icon to change the background color, the background border to be square or rounded, add a transparency level and even add a custom background image.
  • WeShow Video Widget – My WeShow is a place where you can collect videos, share them with friends and create Video Communities. Sidebar or full view gallery of videos.
  • YouTube’s Video Widget – This is the widget provided by Youtube.com
  • Vodpod.com – I liked this one. Vodepod is easy to add to your blog and you get to pick your own videos to add or the most popular videos. Videos come from several different networks and you can choose the size of your widget as well as style.
  • turtilla.com – widget based on a keyword search. Easy to add to wordpress.
  • WidgetBox – Make your page stand out by putting a video widget on MySpace, Blogger, Facebook, WordPress, TypePad, iGoogle or your favorite website. (see sidebar)




WTF is up with the Gas prices?

// April 28th, 2008 // No Comments » // News, Personal Posts, WTF, politics


The gas prices have just gone crazy over the past month. At..fuelgaugereport.com you can view all this information by state which is pretty cool.

It took a whole year for the prices to go up 20 cents. It took only one month for them to go up another 20 cents. WTF?

Vancouver. WA (this is where I live)
Today: $3.68
Last Month: $3.46
Last Year: $3.22. WTF?

Seattle:
Today: $3.73
Last Month: $3.49
Last year: $3.28

Los Angeles-Long Beach:
Today: $3.88
Last Month: $3.60
Last Year: $3.36

Portland-Vancouver
Today: $3.64
Last Month: $3.39
Last Year: $3.22

Chicago
Today: $3.78
Last Month: $3.47
Last Year: $3.06

New York
Today: $3.79
Last Month: $3.42
Last Year: $3.07

Check out your State Here Use the drop down menu at the top..Took me a minute to find.




Gas prices are killing me…

// April 27th, 2008 // No Comments » // Ibdreamy, News, Personal Posts, Update, WTF, politics


I’m just sitting here as usual working on my blog, reading stuff online..blah.

My kids went to visit my Mom in Olympia over the weekend and she took all three of them to the Space Needle in Seattle. I was supposed to go too but me and Roy were fighting over money…as usual.
It would of cost like 80 bucks to go there and back.
I swear I hate money or actually I hate being broke. It seems every time we get paid we’re broke again like 4 days later. No joke!
Even with my new job I’m not making much more then I was before and that makes me sad but I’m much happier at my new job. I guess that matters. Gas is just insane right now!
I can’t believe people are not complaining more about it. I thought my smoking habit was expensive but my gas habit is way worse.

One gallon of gas = 1 pack of cigarettes

That is insanity!! I remember and this was not very long ago when gas was still a buck a gallon. Remember? Haha! Maybe not but seriously it was like 7 years ago. So me and Roy stayed home and watched movies. I slept most of the day..making up for all the time I don’t get to sleep during the week. I get up so early to get to work and I’m just a night owl there’s nothing I can do to break that habit believe me I’ve tried so I get very little sleep.

I’ve been car pooling with my co-worker Chris and we really suck at getting going in enough time to take the max (train) into to Portland so we end up driving in. It costs 12 bucks a day to park downtown Portland so we’ve been spliting the cost. We really need to get going earlier so we can take the Max but it’s really not that much cheaper. The Max cost 2 bucks there and 2 bucks back.

Anyway..don’t mean to be a big drag but money and gas and life just kinda sucks right now.

Goodnight ya’ll!!! :X