Christina Hills is holding a free teleseminar this afternoon/morning as a preview and training call for the Website Creation Workshop.
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Do you look at the login screens and simply cannot remember the user name and or password you choose for a program or a web site?? Normally I us Firefox which has a built in password manager – however it does not always work. I have found and have been using another way – it is called RoboForm – there are 2 version – the free version remembers passwords but will only display the first 10. The paid version will display all of the passwords it has collected and there is a way to upgrade so that you can use more than one computer – plus there is a way to sync between computers. This is highly recommended!!
Tags: passwords, RoboForm, user names
Word Press is an amazing tool. Word Press of course is one of the ways to get a blog up and running and it can be used for so much more. You can have web pages, a sales catalog, store check out and so much more. You do not need to know about Web Design, you do not need a Web master. Word press is something you can do yourself – all of it!!!
Christina Hills will be offering an online class on how to really use Word Press. She has put together a really great set of videos with a lot of information about Word Press to promote the class and there is a lot of information about Word Press on her site. Here is the LINK
I signed onto Twitter awhile back and began following some people and some people began following me. I found that very quickly Twitter was just mass confusion. Hundreds of Tweets every hour. Far too much information – one could very easily spend all day every day just reading the Tweets most of which were not of interest or had nothing to do with my interests.
Twitter was something I just did not turn on, I am already confused and overwhelmed and the Twitter feed was not helping. I would have to sort through the Tweets to find the ones of interest. It was just too confusing.
There are people that I do want and need to follow and keep up with their information.
I just discovered something that is huge help. It is called TweetDeck it is free. I do not understand quite how to use it yet but the important things are there. I got a custom group done and so now from TweetDeck I am able to follow the Tweets of the people I want to follow.
Maybe now I will begin to use Twitter more.
Tags: Tweet Deck, Twitter, Twitter Feed
I have discovered a new (at least new to me) way to get organized in what I need to do and a way to organize projects and tasks.
What I have discovered is a free software program called Freemind. The software is available for the PC and for the MAC and there is an iPhone app.
The software is free, and can be gotten by clicking on the button below. While the software itself is free, it is not apparent what is does or how to use it. The button below will get you to a free video that will get you started and there is a full video available with instructions and samples.
I have just returned from a three day Internet Marketing training seminar in Wilmington NC. This was truly an outstanding seminar given by Bob Jenkins – also know as Bob the Teacher.
I closed my store Thursday (Feb 25) and drove to Wilmington NC. It was a 12 hour drive so I arrived in Wilmington at 8PM.
The seminar began Friday Feb 26 and ended Sunday Feb 28. Each day was totally filled with module after module of excellent material. Friday evening the group went out to dinner which was great in that I got to meet with some of people attending the seminar.
Saturday evening there was a reception which gave another excellent opportunity for networking with the others at the seminar.
The last seminar presentation ended Sunday at 6PM and I drove back last night. It took the same 12 hours to drive back as it did to get there. I got back to my house at 6AM this morning – slept a few hours and got back to my store around 1 PM today.
The 12 hour drive back was great, light traffic, the moon was out and it gave me 12 hours to think about the seminar and to think about the material presented.
This was truly a great seminar that has given me a lot of things to implement in my business plus a whole new way of looking at things and some totally new directions to consider.
Tags: bob jenkins, bob the teacher, live event, Marketing, S.I.M.P.L.E., wilmington NC
Internet marketing seminar with Bob the Teacher,Bob Jenkins. I am in Wilmington NC at a seminar called SIMPLE. This is day two of a three day seminar and it is simply GREAT!!!
I will put up some details later & will have lots more about this when I am on a computer rather than my phone.
From my iPhone
Tags: bob jenkins, bob the teacher, Marketing, wilmington NC
I learned something really great through a not so great experience about iPhone photos and movies.
I got a message to upgrade my iPhone and the upgrade failed, not an Apple problem – one of the computer I synch to my iPhone does some really odd things with iTunes. I took my phone to another computer and got the update but all of my Apps were gone and so were my most recent photos that I took with my iPhone.
Something to know about Apps is if you change computers you may not be able to retrieve your Apps unless you call Apple which I did and they got it working on their side for my second computer.
Looked at my Camera roll and found lots of photos were gone. When you synch an iPhone – iTunes does make a backup however the backup is not readable.
I found a program called iPhone/iPod touch Backup Extractor that is free and makes the iPhone backup files readable. It only runs on a MAC – the really great news is you can get to your photos and save them – you can even put them back on your iPhone – not back on the film roll unless you restore from the correct backup that has the lost photos. What I did after extracting my photos from the back up file was put them in a file and up load the file in the photo synch tab in iTunes.
When I get some time I will be putting up some information about iTunes and iPhone and synching. Main thing that is not obvious is in the place in iTunes where your phone shows up – right click for a menu of things like make a back up and restore from backup.
If you click on the more obvious Restore my phone – it will wipe out everything on your phone.
Tags: iPhone, iPhone Backup, iPhone Backup extractor, lost photos found
I am sure you may have seen ads on TV, in newspapers, on your computer and in your email about Internet Marketing. It is the hot topic these days. Certainly a lot of the stuff especially in TV ads are rip offs and not in the least helpful other than relieving you of excess money.
One of the people that I read and follow is Skip McGrath – Skip has a free newsletter that always has useful information about Internet Marketing, Selling on eBay and a lot more. Skip and his wife Karen great people who give really good advice.
What I learned from Skip’s Feb 2010 newsletter is that there is a place that offers evaluations and reviews about the people selling seminars, books, eBooks, and various Internet marketing services and products. This is a place where you can look up information about the various people and “systems” out there and perhaps will be very useful in helping you choose if you want to become involved in a system or purchase a product.
The site is called IM report card . On this site you can look up products, services, people, business opportunities and so on and begin to learn the truth about the various offers.
In fact since I just recommend Skip here is his review on IM Report Card to give you an example of what this site has available. You might find as I have that Skip’s material is excellent and helpful.
In contrast here is the report on StoresOnline.com These are the people that send you a flyer in the mail inviting you and a guest to a local hotel for a free lunch or dinner. The give you some free prize and or software. Their flyer always looks good and has some big name companies logos. This is an example of something you probably will not want to be involved in.
I finally got around to connecting my iPhone to a big screen TV to see what a movie would look like. To connect the two I got the Composite AV cable from Apple. This AV cable has the yellow video plug, and red and white plugs for audio. It also has a USB cable. I have been using this cable for awhile now in my car – the USB cable goes to a 12Volt power connector and the Red and White go to the MP3 outlet. This allows me to play music from the iPhone (iPod section) to the car stereo.
You would need to have a TV with composite in – Composite has a yellow cable for video and a red and white cable for audio. The movie played on the iPhone looks really good on a big screen tv. I would guess that movies from the iPad will also play through this or a similar cable.
One thing to be aware of – if you connect the USB cable to a computer to power the iPhone it will bring up iTunes and attempt to synch to the computer. Also if you do anything on the computer that brings up iTunes the movie play back will stop.
Another interesting thing is the movie will NOT play on the iPhone screen – when this cable is hooked up. Things like You Tube videos and camera roll videos do play through this cable to a TV but not on the iPhone screen at the same time. If there is a way to show whatever is on the iPhone screen – such as games or photos I am not seeing how to make that work. Everything other than movies comes up on the iPhone screen.
Apple apparently has a way to do this – when they do presentations they show them on a big screen hooked up to an iPhone. The big screen shows games, and iPhone screens. Anyone know how Apple does this?
Oh course the obvious question is can one record from this cable – the answer is yes if you have some sort of composite to digital converter. I was able to play the movie on the iPhone through my digitizer and record the movie on my MAC into iMovie.
If you want to watch a movie on an iPhone – including You Tube or from your camera roll I find you cannot have the AV cable connected. So if you are watching movies on your iPhone and want to externally power the phone – you will need to use the regular USB cable to a power source. Apparently when you plug the AV cable in the iPhone the output video goes to this cable and switchs off the iPhone screen. All you get on the iPhone is the title screen of the movie.
It will be very interesting to see how the iPad works with the iPad iWork software.
Tags: composite video and iPhone, iPad, iPhone, iphone AV cable
