Minor technical information for those of you who are sensitive to their online safety. One of the recommended steps to a better privacy and safety is using web site under the SSL protocol (accessing them with https:// instead of http://). Now, YLovePhoto helps you and can be transparently accessed through both addresses: https://www.YLovePhoto.com/ http://www.YLovePhoto.com/ For…
A few changes for YLovePhoto in 2016. Starting with the decision of adding a special complement to the web site for those who know and love FlipBoard, a powerful way to flip pages on Internet-based magazines. It’s even easier if you chose to use your smart phone: your magazine pages are flipped from the tip…
I have to apologize to all of you who track the comments on the YLovePhoto web site. We have been hit by a spammer who deluged us with comment spam. I appreciated the dozens of laudative comments (about my writing style, the quality of my posts, the depth of my insight and other overly nice…
Don’t worry too much if the posts are rare in the coming days. I’ll be off to Botswana for a photo trip.
The publication rate will slow down a little in the middle of August (while I take some holidays). Some posts are ready for you, but the news should be nearly absent until the third week of August. Then, we’ll probably see more about the Nikon D4, the Nikon D800, the Sony Alpha 77. And maybe…
For all of us who are using only a small screen to look at YLovePhoto, I just launched a new ultra-light template. If you see it appear but you prefer to keep the usual wide-size template, you just have to drop to the bottom of the page and change the “Mobile Theme” option .
Just in passing, I’ll mention that you can now favor YLovePhoto by pressing on the new Google +1 icon wherever it appears on the web site. It will help promote YLovePhoto for a higher ranking in the Google search engine. And you will also notice that the little logo appears along with a list of…
For those who asked how I did the word clouds I presented on YLovePhoto yesterday and today, the trick is simply to go to the www.wordle.net web site and provide the text of a press release, then choose the right parameters for the best show of words. Good luck. Nikon D5100 Canon EOS 600D &…
Always improvements on YLovePhoto. For maximum comfort of our visitors, I just added a small feature that should complement the existing ones: Tags. Posts are no longer only sorted in categories or themes (shown just under the post title); They are also marked with stamps, labels, keywords or Tags which are now shown at the…
For all visitors to YLovePhoto who prefer to use their iPhone or their iPad, here is a little favor to improve their comfort. If you use the button of your Safari browser (either a + or the small add icon shown below), you will get access to the “Add to Home Screen” menu item to…
Over the next two days, the web site may see some perturbation. We are changing the server in order to avoid a possible risk of disk failure and to bring some needed additional performance. We will try our best to ensure that this will be as invisible as possible, buy I apologize in advance for…
I know I shouldn’t have waited so long (2 months), but today’s batch of additions is no less than 26 new in-depth reviews for all the Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, Pentax, Samsung and Sony cameras. To find your load of updated review lists, just use the link at the top left of the web site “SLR…
Celebrating the 1000th post on YLovePhoto (actually, the 2000th, since nearly all posts are written both in French and in English), I took a few minutes to check what were the 2010 posts that the readers of YLovePhoto preferred (actually the ones with the most visits). Download the Pentax K-x manual Photokina 2010: Where Canon…
As you may have noticed, the web site has been missing a few steps recently. During several hours (and several times) the web site has been down. It appears that our server has been victim of a hacking attempt. It was successful and forced the site down at least twice. The server guys are working…
Starting right now, I open an experiment with a new feature for YLovePhoto. As you will quickly notice, there is now the possibility to add a star rating to all posts and pages on the web site. This should be quite easy to master (click on the star rating you want to give, 1 is…
It is the right time to prepare your Christmas gifts and the coming new year with my photographic prints or my posters (or even the new year’s cards). And it will help me maintain the YLovePhoto web site. But, I want to extend this to a gift for you. You will be able to use…
As you can immediately see if you are a returning friend of YLovePhoto, we just changed our face for something more organized and to help visitors navigate easier. After nearly two years of existence, some would say that it was the right time for it. I admit I am happy to see the last weeks…
I have to apologize for a short downtime today. It came when trying to upgrade the WordPress engine powering the web site. Supposedly, this should help in making the web site more stable in the future, but I obviously was unable to maintain this during the transition (the main source of instability was not in…
After some little cleaning and tidying, here are the places where social communication is centered around YLovePhoto and its readers: Flickr / YLovePhoto: a group to share photos and pictures; probably with some competitions coming in the future. Facebook / YLovePhoto: A page for the fans, the true fans! Twitter -> YLovePhoto_en: A way to…
I just started a small experimentation. For those of you who may be interested, I opened a Flickr group under the name of YLovePhoto. Instead of making a sort of closed beta test upon invitation only, I chose to open the doors widely. The operation may still be a bit imprecise during a few weeks…
I will not be available during the next fifteen days. The posts published on YLovePhoto will have been prepared in advance, will be reduced in frequency and will not be news as such, during this period of time when I will be chasing Botswana’s wild life with my tele-lens.
Some of you may be interesting in giving us some information leaks. It may seem that your privacy may be difficult to be kept in the process, but there are a few ways to protect it. I can give you some information and some advice. I would not divulge the sources of my information if…
A minor feature that may appeal to some of you: I found a way to present the web site in the form of a traditional newspaper in PDF format for easy handling (you can take it with you and travel far from Internet). You may be willing to test right now one of the two…
Up to now, the YLovePhoto web site was available in only two languages: English Français I don’t intend to start doing simultaneous real-time translations into several languages at a time, but I thought that it would be intersting for some of our visitors not fully mastering those two native languages, to get access to automated…