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Asker Anonymous Asks:
I'm incredibly new to tumblr and it's layout. I'm trying to make a page that everyone can upload content to. However, I can't find a "multiple photo entry" sort of button. Is it possible to have an open blog with posts that have more than one picture?
pcmadeeasy pcmadeeasy Said:

Hi!

First of all, welcome to Tumblr! 

Don’t worry, you can definitely do that with Tumblr. What you want is to use the submission feature that you can enable by going into your blog’s settings and people can submit anything and you can review it before it goes on the blog. Btw, I don’t know if you know this since you’re new to tumblr, but if the photos look small just click on them and they go to full size :)

Regarding the multiple photo entry, you can upload multiple pictures in one photo post by clicking the “add another photo” link. People can submit those kind of posts if you enable photo submissions (again on the blog settings).

I hope this helps and good luck with Tumblr! :)

A couple of weeks ago I was on Yahoo Answers and I saw this question asking how to get back posts you removed from your timeline. When I first thought about it, I really thought it would be as easy as going to your timeline, finding the post grayed out and click some sort of button saying “show on timeline”. I was wrong. It’s not super hard either, but just not as fast as i thought. 

Anyway, here are the steps: 

Step 1. Go to your Facebook profile(your timeline) and click the Activity Log button

Step 2. Find the post you have hidden (removed from your timeline) and click the little circle and click “allowed on timeline. 

And that’s it! Now you’ll have your posts back on your timeline for your friends to see. It’s not hard at all, but it’s not as abvious as removing posts from your timeline. If you have any other questions about Facebook or anything, just leave your question in my ask box and I will get to it. I hope this helps! 

Have a good day! 

If you’re like me, you might find a bunch of great images on Tumblr of stuff that is actually real and you can probably buy, but there is no link to get such awesome find. That drove me insane for quite a while because there was no easy way to find where this image came from and the only thing that I did was describe the image for google. This worked for me only a few times and it took me forever to actually find the source. Well, there’s good news! There’s a super easy way to find that image with Google Images. 

I came across this last year (or earlier) back when it was introduced but I never found any good purpose to it and I forgot about it, but just a couple of minutes ago I saw this awesome thing on Tumblr that I actually need an I’ll use that as my example.

I was looking through my dashboard and I saw this awesome tent-looking thing for a bed that would give you privacy if you share your room with someone else. I share it with my sister and I like my privacy, so this tent is perfect for me. Here’s the picture I saw:

As you can see it is pretty neat, but the image is pretty small and you can’t even read the letters on the top, so there’s not clue from where did it came from. Here’s when Google images comes to the rescue:

  • Copy the image URL OR save the image to your computer
  • Go to http://images.google.com/ and click the camera button located inside the search bar

  • Paste the image URL OR upload the image
  • You’re done! 
Now you know where to buy this awesome thing called Privacy Pop or look for anything else you like!

I hope this helps you out and if you have any questions just send me an ask

Have a great day! 

One of the things that I just can’t like is reading. I suffer anytime I have reading as homework and many of those times I just skip it, so this is no different when I am in front of a computer. All of you have had to read those painful agreements to service and sometimes you just don’t read them at all and you click “accept”. What I’ve found is that those are one of the very few things I do read on the internet since I don’t want to get in trouble, but I still hate it. I really wish I could do something that would free me from that, and there is! keyboard shortcuts. Yes, shortcuts.

For this task, there is two shortcuts that could make this process a lot faster: ctrl+f OR F3. What these two shortcuts do is pop up a search box in your browser (Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome) and highlight the word you are looking for. The way how I use this with agreements of service is by writing key words like “license” and “copyright” and then going to their location and reading the paragraph in where they are. That saves me from getting sued. 

Now this shortcut also saves time when you are doing research. For example: You need to turn in an essay about X person that did X thing. You go on Google and you search for this person’s name and also about what he/she did. You get results back and you find something that has the key words on the mini description in bold, but once you enter the webpage you get this really long page and you realize it will take you a long time to find where your info is located. Well not anymore! You simply click F3 or ctrl+f and you type your words and now they are highlighted plus you get an index on your scroll bar that tells you where to move.

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I must admit that I was not a big keyboard person, but that has changed. I found the ctrl+f as an accident and so I found F3. 

Now I want to talk about other shortcut that I recently discovered: ctrl+a number. What this shortcut does depends on what browser you are using. 
In Google Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer the shortcut changes you from one tab to another. (for example, you click ctrl+2 and it takes you to you tab #2)
In Safari for Windows, it links you to your top site (for example, you click ctrl+3 and it takes you to your top site #3)

I’m sorry for making this post so long, but I wanted to give you as much info as I could. I really hope these tips help you as much as they help me. 
If you have any questions please feel free to leave a comment on this blog post or on my Requests page above or send me an email to pcmadeeasymail@gmail.com

Have a good day!

Ever since I started editing videos with Sony Vegas movie Studio HD I would constantly come across a problem I could only know about when I finished rendering my videos: I saw nothing but a black screen. 

The audio was fine, but no images were to be seen. 

This honestly drove me crazy and discouraged me to make more videos until a couple of weeks ago when I decided to search on the internet for an answer and I luckily came across this post from http://envanna.wordpress.com that has and will be saving me a lot of time and headaches. 

You can see this post here: http://envanna.wordpress.com/2008/09/06/rambling-sony-vegas-pro-gives-black-videos/ 

Thanks to vannade for letting me post this. 

Have a good day!