Batch Photo Watermarker

Hello everyone, as you may not be aware, I really love to take pictures and I also love posting them online to websites like Facebook; however when an image is posted online, most sites clear the EXIF data.  There are a few sites that preserve the data though, I think Flickr is one of them, but I am not positive.  Anyway, EXIF data is basically all of the information about the picture—it shows the exposure time, the date and time taken, the camera it was taken with, and all sorts of information you never knew your picture knew.  It also contains copyright, generally you have to manually add that though.  So when you need to upload a picture to a website, chances are that even if you put your copyright info in the EXIF data, the data will be deleted so you need another way to protect your image from being stolen.  One of the easiest ways to do this is by watermarking your image.  Though there are many programs out there that you can use, I think that BatchMarker is one of the best.  I haven't really used it too much yet, but I will once I post this.  You see, on the BatchMarker website, it told me to insert a code into my webpage or blog and I can get the full program free.  That is basically the main reason for me posting this (I like free stuff).

For anyone who wants to try this program and also for the BatchMarker team, the link is right here:
Batch Photo Watermarker. The BatchMarker website said that it will take at the max, 12 hours to get my full program; they have to look at this webpage to confirm that it is legit I guess. So hopefully this blog qualifies as legit. Thank you BatchMarker team, you are awesome!

This Blog Again

If you have been keeping up with this blog or are new to it and are getting confused by some previous posts, allow me to explain. This blog's old template was annoying and not very customizable, so I decided to use a different template, one that was supplied by Blogger, just to make life easier. I like it and now the number of comments also show up with every post. Well, I think that there was something else I wanted to mention about this, but I have been trying to remember it for about ten minutes now, so I will just not mention it. Have a nice day. Oh and one more thing, I keep forgetting to post the "Top of Page" thing on the end of

Disqus

A few days ago I was chatting with someone on my blog and found out that the comment system I had wouldn't quite let you post a comment.  The captcha you were required to fill out wasn't working correctly and the box you were supposed to type it into wasn't there.  I decided I will use Disqus instead, I use it for another one of my sites and thought it would be easy enough.  For the most part it was, but I came to one small problem; previously the bar on top of a post would look something like this:

The number of comments would be shown, but when I added Disqus, the numbers would remain the same even if there were more comments.  For example, when I clicked the "comments (1)" link it showed me two comments.

I knew I couldn't just leave it like that so i tried to fix it, but I could not.  I tried for a long time to fix it to no avail.  I finally just decided to take off the comments thing, but then I realized I could just make it say "Comments," so I made it like that.  However it would still be nice for it to show the number of comments there are so if you might know how to fix this, please tell me.

THE CODE
If you are interested in helping me, here is the code that was the default:

<SPAN class='comment-count'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != &quot;item&quot;'>

<b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'>
<A class='comment-link' expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'>
<b:if cond='data:post.numComments == 1'>
<data:top.commentLabel/> (1)<b:else/><data:top.commentLabelPlural/> (<data:post.numComments/>)
</b:if>
</A>
</b:if>
</b:if>

</SPAN>
</DIV>

Here is the code that is currently being used for it:

<SPAN class='comment-count'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != &quot;item&quot;'>


<b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'>
<A class='comment-link' expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'>Comments
</A>
</b:if>
</b:if>


</SPAN>

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Does Blogger Automatically Submit Your Blog To Search Engines?

I used to think that the answer to this question was yes, but then I tried to find this blog in Google and it didn't work out too well.  I think that it would be safe to say that the answer is no, Blogger does not automatically submit your blog to search engines.  Sense you are reading this I am either guessing that you searched this yourself and want to know, or you were reading through my blog, but just in case you are reading for the first reason I am going to give you a link to a site that submits your blog or site to tons of search engines.  To submit your site to search engines, go here http://www.freewebsubmission.com/.

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How To Get People To Stay On Your Blog

Alright so I am going to tell you how to get people to stay on your blog, and by this I mean to get them to finish reading a post, not to continue checking back to your blog everyday or something like that, but instead answer some basic questions like "Why do people come to my blog and immediately get off?"  and "How do I get people to stay on my blog for longer time frames?"  Well when you have a blog post and it is titled with a question, I will take the question "What is the best time of day to workout?"  If I were to title a blog post like that and write a few paragraphs about it, I would want people to actually read it, not just come in get the answer and then get off.  For example the other day, I Googled that question and one of the first links I came to was a blog sort of site, it had the question, then the answer and then a few paragraphs about it.  But all I wanted was the answer, so as soon as I read the first line, it said, "Whenever you are most awake."  That was the answer, that was all I went to the site to get so after I read the first sentence, I just closed it out, but I saw that there were a few more paragraphs about it, but I didn't care to read those because all I wanted was an answer and that is what I got.  So I was on the page for a  whole 10 seconds maybe, but when you get people to visit your blog you don't want them on for only 10 seconds, you want them on for a longer time.  So this is what you do: you simply put the paragraphs that you want to write about your answer first, and then put the answer at the bottom, that way the visitor reads the full blog post because they don't want to miss the answer so they just read until they find the answer.  And it works, look right now, you just read this whole post to get that answer I just gave you.  So congratulations on your new found technique.

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Movies

I think I may start reviewing and critiquing movies on this blog; I can't really think of much else to write on here. Unfortunately though, I am only good at critiquing movies while I am watching them, so I will not start that until I get a laptop so it will be easier for me. Well, I can't think of much else to say in this post, so I guess I will just end it, because basically what I am trying to do is add a post everyday, though I know that won't really happen, but I guess I could try.

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Blogging

Ugh, I hate this part of blogging, it, for me, is probably one of the hardest parts, and that is trying to think of something to write. I want to be able to post stuff more often, but then I am struck with the decision of what to write about, and I can never think of anything. So right now I am just writing this and this is pretty much just a waste of time to write because I am writing about writing, well I guess maybe someone could possibly read this, but I don't know. So if you ever do start a blog, you should just make it one topic, and don't label it "Everything" like I did. So if you have anything that you would like me to write about go ahead and tell me because I am clear of ideas.

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This Blog (Update)

Alright so if you read my last post then you may have been unclear about some of the stuff I wrote about because now, I have fixed the fourth tab thing apparently it was just my browser, Google Chrome, once I opened this in Internet Explorer, the calibration was fine. I also just added a music player at the bottom of my blog, not many songs on it right now, but that is because I don't know what you like. Just write a comment telling me which songs or bands I should put in it. I made the widget using grooveshark.com so none of the music I put on here, or at least none so far, is mine. Also if anyone knows how I can put the blogger bar thing back at the top of my blog can you please show me how, thanks.

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This Blog

Alright so, I got a new template for this blog, it's pretty cool looking but there are a few things that I don't like about it.

One of the main things I don't like about it is the comment box, you can't just scroll to the bottom to write a comment. You have to scroll to the top and then click where it says comments, and then it will reload the page with the comment box. That could get annoying though especially if you read the post and then you want to comment, but then if it was a big post, then you have to scroll to the top to click the comment button. I think I will start adding a "Top of Page" link to the bottom of all my posts to make it easier and if I can. I could probably go through the html/css coding to fix the comment thing, but it would take a long time and I don't want to waste my time doing that.

Let's see if this works....Top of Page I hope it works!

Alright, I just tested it, and it does work, so I will just add that to the bottom of all my posts and go back and add it to my "Lockerz.com" post.

Another thing I don't necessarily like about it is that for some reason or another, it made the search button text go white, so now it just looks like there is a search box with a blank button right next to it. Or at least it looks like that on my computer, leave a comment if it looks differently on yours. If it does look blank, it is supposed to say "Search" and you can see it if you highlight it with your cursor.

Now for the thing that isn't the template's fault but this website blogger.com's (or maybe it's my browser's fault I am not sure yet). Anyways, if you have made a blog using this site, then you are more likely to know what I am talking about. In the "Page Elements" tab of the "Layout" tab, it is a drag-and-drop interface, where as I choose where The posts and widgets go on the page. If you are reading this before I fix the problem, you will see that there are four side tab things that look like they are attached by binder-type rings and the first three are filled, but the fourth one is blank. This is because when I try to drag and drop anything, my cursor is about two inches below the item it is grabbing - this is hard to explain but I will try anyways - and I can't bring my cursor low enough as to where an item will fall into that fourth slot. If you know how to fix this problem, please, feel free to comment and tell me how.

Well I think that is all that I don't like about the template. If you want this template for your blog or another webpage thing, you can download it here http://www.raycreationsindia.com/template-details.aspx?templateid=8. Also I put a chat into this blog so just in case you randomly want to talk to me you can do so with that chat box. It is a private chat box and only you and I will be able to see the chat so don't mistake it for a public chat box. I don't really know how often I will put up posts either, but you can still follow this blog, right now I have no followers, so follow this and help make this blog more popular (even if you don't check back). Also if you have any suggestions of what I should talk about or do with my blog, feel free to comment, but please do not spam or curse, use anything inappropriate, or bad. The comments are monitored and will be deleted if I find it bad or offensive or inappropriate in anyway, and yes, I do consider cursing a bad thing, people need to be more mature than that.

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