TechnoTrotter » Flickr http://www.technotrotter.org Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:06:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 Current gadgets and web tools testing http://www.technotrotter.org/2009/01/current-gadgets-and-web-tools-testing/ http://www.technotrotter.org/2009/01/current-gadgets-and-web-tools-testing/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:37:27 +0000 TechnoTrotter http://www.technotrotter.org/?p=211 Just to update what I’m currently using and testing at the moment.

  • Garmin Forerunner 50 watch. Am getting to grips with watch and loving it and am just getting into using the heart rate monitor. Will keep you posted on that.
  • Flickr – continuing to use Flickr for my visual food diary and have got into the habit of automatically photographing my meals on my camera phone.
  • Twitter – tweeting about my runs and the occasional word of running wisdom.
  • Fetch Everyone – another web tool for logging training, planning runs, connecting with other runners, More info on this to come.
  • Dailymile – have just started to use www.dailymile.com for recording my training (similar to Gyminee) and will blog a bit more about that in the next day or so.
]]> http://www.technotrotter.org/2009/01/current-gadgets-and-web-tools-testing/feed/ 0 Confessions of a failed food diarist http://www.technotrotter.org/2009/01/confessions-of-a-failed-food-diarist/ http://www.technotrotter.org/2009/01/confessions-of-a-failed-food-diarist/#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:27:03 +0000 TechnoTrotter http://www.technotrotter.org/?p=170 The observant among you will note a big gap in my flickr food diary strangely enough around the time of Christmas and New Year. I have no shame but really there are only so many pictures of food (especially of the less than healthy variety) that one can upload to the web.

I think my food “tag cloud” would have looked a bit different from the one below featuring largely PIZZA, CHOCOLATE, FERRERO ROCHER, MINI TOBERLONE (REALLY YUMMY!), OKAY MORE CHOCOLATE OF VARIOUS SHAPES AND BRANDS, CAKE, DESSERTS, PARTY FOOD, MORE PARTY FOOD, NUTS, CRISPS … OH AND OF COURSE DRINK.

hangs head in shame …okay.. go on… you can give me a row now – the bathroom scales already have. But it’s back on the wagon now – and normal service will resume on the flickr food diary!

]]> http://www.technotrotter.org/2009/01/confessions-of-a-failed-food-diarist/feed/ 0 Food diary tag cloud http://www.technotrotter.org/2008/12/food-diary-tag-cloud/ http://www.technotrotter.org/2008/12/food-diary-tag-cloud/#comments Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:08:04 +0000 TechnoTrotter http://www.technotrotter.org/?p=161 I’ve been keeping a visual food diary on Fickr for the past while – (you can link to it from the right hand menu pics). You never know – it might yet make it into the Tate Modern as art! The idea was to look at the variety of food I was eating, colour of fruit and vegetables, portion size etc rather than being obsessed with calories. It did make me more aware of the presentation of my food.

Anyway I have also been tagging all the pictures and it’s interesting to have a look at the tag cloud which gives a good idea of the foods I eat most regularly (cheese seems to feature big). (I used the “fairtrade” tag if any item in that meal had the fairtrade mark).

tag cloud December 2008

]]> http://www.technotrotter.org/2008/12/food-diary-tag-cloud/feed/ 0 Guide to: Flickr http://www.technotrotter.org/2008/10/how-to-flickr/ http://www.technotrotter.org/2008/10/how-to-flickr/#comments Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:29:31 +0000 TechnoTrotter http://www.technotrotter.org/?p=97 Flickr describes itself as “the best way to store, sort, search and share your photos online. Flickr helps you organize that huge mass of photos you have and offers a way for you and your friends and family to tell stories about them.” Read also the Wikipedia entry describing Flickr.

Setting up a free Flickr account

  • go to http://www.flickr.com
  • click on button “Create Your Account“
  • if you don’t have a Yahoo ID, click “sign up” at bottom right of screen
  • select if you want US or UK and Ireland version
  • fill out form and click “Create My Account”
  • you will receive a confirmation email either to your alternative email address or your new Yahoo email (you can access your Yahoo email by going to www.yahoo. co.uk or www.yahoo.com and signing in using the ID and password you created)
  • go back to http://www.flickr.com, click “Create Your Account” and sign in using your Yahoo ID

How to use Flickr

For a helpful overview of Flickr, visit their FAQs

This covers loads of topics including:

  • uploading pictures
  • editing pictures
  • arranging pictures in sets
  • tagging pictures
  • sharing pictures
  • using the organiser
  • using Flickr tools
  • inserting pictures in externals blogs and websites

Read how the TechnoTrotter is currently using Flickr for a visual food diary.

TechnoTrotter is currently testing Flickr to keep a visual food diary and a review and rating will be posted in due course.

]]> http://www.technotrotter.org/2008/10/how-to-flickr/feed/ 0 A food diary (with a difference)! http://www.technotrotter.org/2008/10/a-food-diary-with-a-difference/ http://www.technotrotter.org/2008/10/a-food-diary-with-a-difference/#comments Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:22:45 +0000 TechnoTrotter http://www.technotrotter.org/?p=93 I’m finding it really useful to use Twitter to plan and update on my running. It’s keeping me motivated to go running after work when previously I might have changed my mind. I thought about using it to keep a kind of ongoing food diary, and it would work great for this if you want to try it, but I’ve decided to do something a bit different.

I’m going to use Flickr (an online photosharing website) to keep a visual food diary so basically I use my phone to photo everything I eat, upload it to Flickr, tag it and..voila…a visual food diary.  The general idea being that rather than having a text-based list of everything I eat, I can see at a glance a visual representation of my daily food intake. Rather than being calorie-counting obsessed (for the moment anyway- we will look at calorie counting tools in due course), the idea is to get an overall view of:

  • portion size
  • variety of food
  • colours of food (which gives some indication of variety of food and therefore different nutrients)
  • intake of fruit and veg

(This also will hopefully work on the basis that I’ll be too mortified to post pics of huge servings, junk food and the odd snacks that usually go unaccounted for.)

Seriously though, it carries on the idea of increasing my motivation to improve my diet by being accountable to more than just myself and of viewing my daily food intake from a perspective other than calories.


View the TechnoTrotter’s Flickr food diary



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