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Thursday, July 1, 2021

How to add blogspot to your mobile phone's home screen

For years I have felt frustrated that I did not have blogger on my icons on my phone. I thought the phone restricted or blocked blogger for commercial reasons. However, I have just made a breakthrough.

I did the usual obvious thing and went to google and found blogger. I found one of my blogs.

I recently realised that my other blogs are accessible if I tap on a solid triangle. I started tapping on every icon I could see trying to save it.

Then publish it. I tried exploring the three dots. Up popped a long list of options. One vital phrase caught my eye. It said -

save icon to home screen

You had to click on the orange icon and simultaneously press on the word add. The symbol appeared on my phone home page screen!

What I had saved was a link to blogspot, not blogger. What is the difference?

BLOGGER IS where you as a blogger write your draft and edit it and add photos and then publish.

Blogspot is where you and others can see the finished published post - but not edit it. To approve and save, you must click on a green tick, at the top right. You can then publish.

Useful Websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger_(service)

https://www.blogger.com/blog/posts/4474319509042475984

About the Author

Angela Lansbury is Vice President Public Relations of Braddell Heights Advanced, and Tampines Changkat Advanced, speakers training club which are part of Toastmasters International. The USA has several Spanish speaking as well as the English speaking clubs. You can pick up Spanish from buying or reading online their Spanish clubs welcome pages and manuals.

In The USA, UK, Singapore and worldwide, there are many clubs which are English speaking, as well as Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, French, Tamil, Malay.

The inauguration of Tampines Changkat Advanced was Tuesday 29 2021, online on zoom. Their meetings are on the fourth Tuesday evening of the month. They hope to hold meetings with a few people meeting physically, the others online, as soon as the Covid-19 conditions allow.

You can find the club through their facebook page as well as through Toastmasters International find a club.

https://www.facebook.com/tampineschangkatadvTMC

The meetings are free for visitors. Visitors can watch, and join in speaking by introducing themselves and volunteering to do a 2 minutes impromptu speech in table topics.

If you wish to join for a year, it costs about 190 US dollars, to have monthly meetings online, a mentor, a magazine, and one of the 11 Pathways, consisting of 14 projects. Each project starts with 3 speeches of your choice of subject, lasting 4 to 6 minutes, then 5 to 7 minutes. The Pathways include the most popular Presentation Mastery. I chose humorous speaking as my second Pathway, costing 20 dollars. Then my third was a leadership course. Come and see for free.

The club also has meetings in person in Singapore

You can also contact my other club, smaller Braddell Heights Advanced, which is a cosy little club with more chances to speak.

That will link you through to Zoom or googlemeet. 2 pm to 5 pm.

BHA meets the first Wednesday evening each month, starting at 7 pm Singapore time.

Then an extra meeting on the 3rd Saturday afternoon, starting at 2 pm Singapore time.

To check your time zone,

https://24timezones.com/difference/singapore/

Meetings will be on Wed July 7th and Saturday July 17th.

Contact either of these or other clubs through Toastmasters International Find a Club.

Thursday, May 28, 2020

From Rome to Assisi via Perugia and its Etruscan Cliffside Gateway

Blogger (where I write) and blogspot (where you read) are strange. My archived posts disappear and I can't find them. So I go and ask uncle Google and he finds me my old post on Perugia from 2017 with my wonderful photos. Here is a nostalgic look at the Etruscans and wonderful Perugia.

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Etruscans in Paris, Perugia and Rome - and Christmas via Etruscan Perugia and Francis's Assisi

Rome and Exciting Etruscans
As I said in my previous post, I just discovered that Rome has Etruscan ruins. I'd never understood who the Etruscans were, nor cared about them, until I went to Perugia and saw the giant cliffside gateway which is the entrance to the city.

The gateway looks like tunnelling into the cliffside, but huge! In addition to the impressive gateway, in Perugia there's an atmospheric underground city. The underground tunnels were filled with rubble for many years, only in recent times restored and now you can walk around the area, which has an escalator down to the lower level, and shops in the nooks and crannies, with high arched ceilings overhead.

The Etruscans are the natives who fought the encroaching Romans. Either the Romans were more ruthless or better organized or both. Anyway, modern Rome also has underground catacombs, like Paris, as well as Etruscan remains.

But what did the Etruscans look like? A long time ago I wondered what the Philistines looked like. You read so much about the Philistines in the Bible, called the Old Testament by Christians after they introduced the New Testament. I looked up the Philistines and found that they had receding chins, which would not be considered beautiful today. Ideas of beauty are different in each era and to each group. Titian painted buxom women who were considered cuddly and voluptuous, whilst thin models are favoured on the catwalk in the late 20th century and early 21st century.

Let's go back to the Etruscans. What did they look like?

Etruscan mother and child. From Wikipedia article on the Etruscans.

Etruscan couple. From Wikipedia article on the Etruscans.

If these are typical Etruscans, they had square or oval jaws, heavy faces with large lips, noses and eyes, with large eyebrows, and were well-built or well-fed. I shall look out for the Etruscans in statues and paintings on trips to the Louvre in Paris, to Rome and Perugia.

In Perugia, one of the guides told me that her ancestors were Etruscan. I thought that was very exciting, as I had assumed the Etruscans had been wiped out massacred by the Romans, completely disappeared with no descendants.

Alas, she did not look particularly Etruscan, more like typically Italian. She explained that she resembled the other side of her family, the Italian, Roman side.

The Etruscans were the link between the Greeks and the Romans. The Etruscans gave Rome its name.

The Etruscan legacy to the Romans, what the Romans kept or copied, included polytheism, slavery, human sacrifice of prisoners of war, reading omens from scarified animals' body parts, and gladiator fights of the captured. (I am beginning to go off the Etruscans. Not that our era with terrorism is going to look much more civilised to people in future eras. Let's just look at the Etruscan art and sculpture.)

Umbria and its Capital City Perugia
Just a reminder about Umbria and one of my favourite cities, Perugia. The links are
@UmbriaTourism and #loveUmbriastianity to their battles to overcome the Etruscans.

Etruscan gateway in Perugia. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Websites and links:
@UmbriaTourism and #loveUmbria
See my other travel website:
www.luxurytravelforless.co.uk

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2 comments:

Xristos Zikos said...: Great shots! wonderful place, i love Rome, i went with my bf last year and we had an excellent experience!so many lights, history, tourism. you do have to know someone to guide you around- i booked with this https://daytrip4u.com/destination/Italy/Rome and they were awesome. i ll be back again!; December 13, 2019 at 10:01 AM
Unknown said...: amazing city - amazing city break
we have manage to see everythnig in Paris
with well organised day trips
https://daytrip4u.com/suggestions/france/paris/eiffel-louvre
and we will go again
thank you guys; January 29, 2020 at 11:03 AM

Saturday, February 15, 2020

Captioning Pictures In Blogger

This week, Feb 2020, I discovered the caption icon in the choices when loading up a photo into blogger. That is really handy. It does two things.

1 Your caption is centred under the photo.
2 If you move the photo up and down the text, the caption should move with it.

About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Please bookmark and share links to your favourite posts.

Thursday, February 6, 2020

The New Blogger and The New Facebook

I have tried the new blogger and the new facebook. In both cases I preferred the old version. Why?

The New Blogger
The New blogger is more visual, more charts. I just like the simple version which tells me the number of readers today, yesterday, this month.

The New Facebook
The New Facebook puts photos of your favourite or most used friends down the left column. Since I have hundreds that is not really helpful. I like the old system which gives you a box for you to start writing at the top. It shows you who has commented in the top in the menu bar.

They asked for feedback. The feedback requires you to choose from a list, what aspects of the site you are critiquing.

About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Angela's Caricatures On Holiday And At Home - And How To Rotate Them

In February 2019 I went on Susan Alison's art course at Writers' and Artists' Holiday at Fishguard in Wales.

Self-portrait drawn from memory with outline in black pastel. I remembered I had:

1 Blue eyes,

2 Blonde hair,

3 A wide smile or my mouth wide in repose,

4 Red clothes.

Later corrected using a mirror. I had forgotten I had

1 A fringe!

2 My eyebrows were not each an arc but had a kink in the middle.

3 Finding and adding a darker yellow pastel enabled me to make the hair longer, varied in colour and more wavy.

4 The necklace should be a neat curve. Next time I shall draw around a saucer, or teacup, depending on the size of the drawing.

The love interest, Polly the Pretty Poodle, (she is a model) for my hero dog in my book, Larry, the talking Labrador, Catty Cat and Escaped Lions

Hey, ho, this picture is inserted into my post not upside down, but sideways. What can I do to turn it?

In wordpress this would be easy. In blogger there is no symbol to click on. You have to go back to your photo editor and load up the new version of the picture to blogger.

Go into HTML (to the right of compose in blogger.com).

Alter the numbers for the size and shape and a plus or minus sign.

When I can get my head around this, I'll do it and demonstrate it to you.

Useful Websites

Rotating Images in Blogger

https://so-how-do-i.blogspot.com/2017/06/rotate-my-blogger-images.html

www.writersholiday.net

Author, Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Please share links to your favourite posts.

Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Blogger Changes and Your blog

These changes are scary. When I started a new blog on Wordpress. Their basic system is free and took me a week to learn. It is full of features.

It took me a while to work out.
Blogger is so much easier and saves automatically. I had far more readers on blogspot.

My SEO adviser (my son Anthony of Marketappeal told me that if I duplicated posts on Wordpress they would not get noted by Google. So I didn't bother. I also thought people would be annoyed to read the same post twice in different places.

However, if blogger is likely to disappear, I have to consider moving all my posts gradually, in order to have time to do so.

I hope that with the new takeover, some new ideas will roll out. Come March. Only one month away. Time to copy and update some earlier posts onto a webpage - or Facebook.

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

What time is it in LA, Chicago, New York and London, England? Pacific, Central and Eastern time

Problem
A webinar asks me to sign up and choose a time. What time is it where?

Answers
The webinar says the times available are:

Pacific Central Eastern
(Los Angeles) (Chicago) New York
10 am Noon 1 pm

2 pm 4 pm 5 pm

My laptop, set to UK time, says that the meeting starts one day or two ahead plus such and such a time which is 5 hours ahead.

Pacific Central Eastern
(Los Angeles) (Chicago) New York UK
10 am Noon 1 pm 6 pm

2 pm 4 pm 5 pm UK 10 pm

I can't find a tab for columns on blogger.com in which I create posts for blogspot.com on which you read posts. However, I shall check to see this looks OK.

I now have a magic, easy to understand comparison of time zones in the USA, plus a comparison between the USA, all three regions, and the UK. I can sign up for a webinar, recommend it to friends in the UK when they are at home in the day rather than out for the evening, or returned from work.

As soon as I clicked publish on this post I got the feedback that people in the USA were the greatest number of those logging onto my post. But the second highest number was people in Germany. (Could be Americans in Germany.) So to help them I thought I must check the time difference between the UK and Germany.

I bet most people in Germany know. However, the clocks changed last week. Also, as a freelance writer and former sub-editor I know don't rely on what you think - ALWAYS CHECK!

Germany - and most of Europe, is one hour ahead. That means that 10 am in the UK is 11 am in Berlin. 11 am in the UK is noon - are they about to go out to lunch in Berlin? Or are they free to chat about non-work items and watch videos? Noon in the UK is 1 pm in Germany. 2 pm in the Uk is 3 pm 3 pm in German. 4 pm in the UK is 5 pm in German - are they going home - is their switchboard no longer answering? 6 pm in the UK will be 7 pm in Germany - are they home already, not keep to take business calls when they are with family? A really handy comparison.

When recording videos, podcasts, and speeches, I must remember not to say good morning, afternoon or evening, unless I explain when the recording was made, but instead say, hello. because people could be watching the recording any time.

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