I’m lazy. I want the quickest and easiest way to get pictures off my digital camera and onto Flickr with the option of doing some really basic editting in-between. For a couple of months now, I’ve been using FlickrExport for iPhoto and it’s fantastic. I first tried out their demo version just to make sure I liked it enough, but after using it for a month, I bought the retail version (about $15) and it was a worthy investment.

FlickrExport adds an “Export to Flickr” option in the export menu in iPhoto. It lets you select the photos you want in iPhoto and when you export them, it opens up a window that lets you change things like set the max picture size, tags, titles, descriptions, sets, and all sorts of things that I would have needed to go to the Flickr website to do manually. After all that is set, I click “export” and all the work is done for me.

My favorite part is that you can choose to edit the parameters of all the pictures you want to export at once (like if I wanted everything to be a max of 450px in width), or I could edit them separately (like if I wanted some pictures to be 850px and others to be 450px).

Considering iPhoto is what opens up by default when I plug in my camera in and I use it to tweak basic white balancing and color adjustments, it’s the perfect solution for me to use FlickrExport to upload it into Flickr.

I made naengmyun, a Korean dish featuring cold noodles in a cold broth, for dinner the other night. It was refreshing, but unfortunately the heatwave in LA had passed by then. Toppings include: cucumber ribbons, kimchi, baked tofu, and pan-fried king oyster mushrooms.

Despite living within walking distance of Bar Hayama, I finally went for the first time last night for dinner. The outside is unassuming and easy to miss, but inside is a nice spacious shelter from the traffic on Sawtelle. The seats around the large fire pit were already taken, but we nabbed a table near it and it was just as pleasant without having to face a roaring fire.

We started with some sake samplers: the Legacy and the Classic. Each sampler (about $15) included 3 different sakes in 2 oz. cups. This was perfect for a sake newbie like me to taste different types without breaking the bank.
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We had a friend over tonight and I made vegan fish tacos. I also made the pico de gallo, but the bf made the avocado. Half-assed recipe with eye-balled measurements because I don’t write stuff down after the jump.
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The BF started eating eggs again, yay. He made scrambled eggs with chives on toast to celebrate.