My Technology Addictions

As we start our independent lives away from our parents we take on more responsibilities and start to gather our worldly goods. Once we have a few things to our names and whether we are single, enter into relationships, have kids we start to think about what or who we would like to have these things and manage our affairs in the unfortunate event of our death. This is where a Will (Last will and testament) comes into play. It is not something that any of use really wants to think about or do but a very necessary evil especially if you want a say in what happens to your belongings, who will care for your children or animal.

So as many of our daily tasks start to move online and we start creating our online presence have you thought about if you will leave access to these accounts and information and if so who will you leave it to? Our online presence can be very personal and not all aspects may be shared or even know about by your friends or family so do we just leave list of account numbers, usernames and passwords as part of your will or leave it all out there in the cloud some of which will be viewable and other locked away.

I have been thinking about this recently as I really need to update my will now my kids are older and just general life situations have changed. I did a quick calculation of how many different online accounts I have including bank accounts, and came to a figure around 50. Well that blew me away and seeing that I use some accounts like gmail as a backup facility also some of these accounts will need to be accessed by other after I have gone. If you have flickr accounts and other media sharing accounts that have family and personal files would you want your family to have account access to these? 

I am just putting this out there for all of us to think about, how I would actually go about leaving this information or if I would actually leave access available to or my accounts is something I will be thinking about. So I ask the question Will you leave your online life to your loved ones?

Testing MMS to Flickr

Originally uploaded by developit

This is my first test of sending an image from my phone by mms to my flickr account which has been set up to automatically post to my blog
image is fog over Mandurah in June taken from the bypass bridge

I am new to blogging and have been reading quiet a few as I look around at some of the sites. One thing I did come across was some people mentioning that they did not really want to add links to other people’s blogs or web pages in their sites as they don’t want to lose their readers.This seems a shame especially was we can learn so much from each other in this ’social network’ so a simple way to keep your readers and still give them these valuable links is to set the ‘Target’ of your links to open in a new page.

These tips are edublogs specific but I am sure similar settings are available in other sites. For Internet Explorer uses it will open a new browser while Firefox users will have a new tab open.

Change the target of your link to open in a new window

You can also set the target window in your blogroll with the following setting that is on the right hand side of the editor window.

You can also add the following target html code to links that are in you sidebar.

<a href=”yourpda.edublog.org” title=”Open link in a new window” target=”_blank”>

Hope this helps