clipixBlogging about history and retro ads has made me realize how much I have always loved and been inspired by images. If I don’t have a strong, amazing, funny or weird image to write about, I just don’t feel inspired. I tend to bookmark images I see and want to write about in the future - but as you know, bookmarks tend to show up as a line of text. And even though I’ll read the title and think: oh yeah, Chocolate Mint Gelatin from 1939, I don’t connect with it that well.
But now! Oh my goodness, there is Clipix to the rescue - for me and anyone else who loves, needs, collects and gets totally excited by images. I can’t even tell you how much fun I have been having setting up Clipboards on Clipix. Let’s walk through the process - it is super easy, so you can be clipping away in no time. I also want to show you one of my growing collection of Clipboards. The Retro Gelatin board, of course!
Just go to the Clipix site and sign up for an account (through FB, Twitter, or your email). Then drag the Clipix icon to your toolbar. Every time you see an image you want to keep, just hit the icon and you can save the image onto the Clipboard of your choice. You can switch images around from clipboard to clipboard too. Multiboards allow you to group clipboards together (I plan to have a retro group and a history group, to start with). You can create new clipboards easily, so if you see something that inspires you to think of a new category, no problem (I have done this about 5 times today already).
Share the images and clipboards
or not, as you like. You can use Syncboards with friends and family so that you can all
share an image on your boards. You can post any of the images on Facebook or
Twitter - I really appreciate this, because I want to update my Facebook page more often. Incidentally, not only have I found tons of new images, I am also discovering lots of
wonderful sites and blogs. Which is an added benefit I hadn’t even thought of.
You can use Clipix for tons of things besides blogging, of course - you can make vivid shopping lists, for example. How about a clipboard of new restaurants you want to check out, or one of ideas for your next vacation (this would be perfect for comparing, say, a bunch of cabin sites or hotels in a certain area) - or of articles and posts you want to read later. Oh, and recipes. And books you want to read. And of videos. You can even take Clipix along with you as an iPhone App, too - and take photos of stuff you see in the store and add that to your clipboard.
As for me, I am going to be using Clipix for all my vintage ads, other retro images, and New York and Brooklyn history images for my history blog, The Virtual Dime Museum. This is going to make thinking of new posts SO much easier. Because so often I’ve seen an image and wanted to keep track of it but was too lazy to make a link that would just disappear into my bookmarks. No more of that! If you love images and are a visual person like me, you will love Clipix. It is as delicious as a Chocolate 'n' Mint gelatin mold.
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What a fun site! I'll check it out.
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