Now ain’t that cool? Pictobrowser lets you embed that slideshow/album on your blog in just 4 quick and easy steps. All you need is a Flickr account with the photos in it either Tagged, in a Set or Group. There’s lots of other things you can do to customize your slideshow as you will see in the Pictobrowser builder.

The photos you see above are from our trip to Corregidor Island early this year.

If you look at the upper right hand corner of this blog you’ll see that it now sports an Ubuntu ribbon, courtesy of blogsticker.net.

Blogsticker.net can provide several types of ribbons for your blog. You only need to sign up, claim your blog and put up a javascript code within the header tags of your blog template.

However, as I was surfing for alternatives, I came upon Quickribbon.com, a completely free and no sign-up required site that can help you generate a ribbon for your blog that says anything and can link to anywhere. I’m using a ribbon generated from quickribbon.com on my main blog, Balay ni Bambit, to promote my post “The Sun Sets on the Nayong Pilipino.”

The main difference between the two is that blogsticker.net is a community, while Quickribbon gives you just that–a quick ribbon–and a choice of where you want to link to, and the option to stay in the same browser window or open a new one for the link. Blogsticker links you up with other blogs with the same sticker as you have, and can also show you other blogs with other ribbons that you might want to try on.

If you have more than one blog you can register them all under one blogsticker.com account, with different ribbons displaying on each blog.

Click here to get a Blogsticker, and here to get a Quickribbon.

One of the niftier things I’ve encountered recently is the Retractable USB Charge Cable, which has versions for the more popular brands of mobile phones and handsets. That’s the one you see on the left (in its retracted state) in the picture above. That’s my tried and tested (meaning old) Sony Ericsson P910i in the middle, and its accompanying wall charger (with adaptor) on the right. If you are the type that availed yourself of travel deals, hitting the road with portable wifi and a laptop, the retractable USB charger would be the better bet over the wall charger, in terms of portability. Precious space in a traveling kit can be reclaimed and used for something else, like maybe an extra mouse or whatever it is people with laptops throw into their bags when they travel. I’d settle for road food.

I got the charger from our office for P150, but the other models may be a bit more expensive than that. There’s lots of photos of the other models and other stuff that this company sells, on their website here.