How To Install and Customize Widgets on Your Blogs, Posts, and Sites. In a previous post about the power and value of Widgets and Gadgets, I promised to provide a training class walking you through the most important steps in creating, selecting, installing, and customizing these little gizmo’s into your Blogs and Websites. While the
Flickr and BigHugeLabs – Here’s one for all you folks in the ActiveRainPhotoBloggers Group There are many great photography tools and FREE photo hosting sites on the web. Flickr, Picasa, and Photobucket are just the first few that come to mind. I have used all three but have chosen Flickr for all my primary photo
Common Mistakes A Blogger Makes These are some areas that can have an impact on you and your Blogging experience. No matter who you are and what you do for a living, if you decide to start Blogging, here’s a few suggestions that might help make your Blogging experience more enjoyable and successful. These following
I never thought I’d be saying this, but it’s true…I’m leaving. I knew that this time was coming, but now it’s actually here. I know that sounds bad, but it’s really not. Some of you might remember the post I did back in 2007, the one about taking my son down south, and dropping him
Today, I’m introducing a new app coming out for iPhone users, the “iPhone Inter-Active Business Card.” I used ActiveRain and my iPhone to demo how it will work. Now it’s not available just yet, I wanted to see what you think of it first. I’ll be doing a follow-up post in the next couple weeks
For the past few years, we have had the ability to convert “Text To Speech” (TTS) on our computers. We can even select a male or female voice to read back text in a Word Document or on the computer screen. My son, a college student, uses the TTS “Speech synthesis” feature to have his
What is a Wiki? Many of you have probably heard of WikiPedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Currently there are 2,457,781 articles in English on their site. Many Bloggers link to Wikipedia for explanations and definitions of odd and peculiar terms, words or phrases. What’s it for? You’ll find numerous links to overviews,
For those of you from my musical era, do I hear you thinking “Doobie Brothers” right now? LOL!~ I recently received my Flip Video Camera from Bob at ActiveRain. I was asked to demo the camera along with an on-line Video editing and production platform called Mixpo, Video Advertising for small and medium sized businesses.
Social Media & Technology – Customer Service Expectations Change
Today as I was going through my bank account online, I noticed an electronic debit charge from Norton Internet Security and Anti-virus. Since switching to a MAC computer quite some time ago, I had forgotten all about using Symantec Norton on my old PC computer. Within a couple seconds, I was at their site looking
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