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Excellent quality video

2009-01-13T09:43:00.001-08:00

Video Broadcast yourself live, or record it and then embed it, right on your own blog .Veodia makes it extremely easy and its excellent quality video to boot. Just get a free account with them then plug in your web cam and try it out. I don't even need to give details on how to use it....it's that easy. Check out one of their own videos, it's really high quality and please don't forget to view it Full Screen also....Excellent!

All you have to do for a live broadcast is give people the URL,

it's located in the lower left of this photo.

Or embed your recorded video right on your own site.

Is that site safe to visit ?

2008-12-09T18:28:00.000-08:00

Have you ever wondered if a site is safe to visit, or if it may contain any threats to your PC ?
Check out a Symantec service called Norton's Safe Web and enter the url address of any site you want to check out, or even your own, if you have one.

Get Commentluv on Blogger / Blogspot

2008-12-07T08:27:00.000-08:00

This post is for google bloggers (blogspot) who would like to get commentluv for their blogs. If you want a change from google's default commenting system, this might be for you. If your not sure what commentluv looks like, just click the comments here.

The video at the end of this post is excellent for learning all the steps on how to do it, also there is a detailed explanation on the commentluv site, with this same video by Andy Bailey telling you everything you need to know.

In this post I will add the things I needed to learn along the way...

First and most importantly practice getting commentluv on a practice blogspot blog, there are a lot of steps and I found out for myself that I did need some getting used to everything.

Learn how to remove commentluv from your blogspot if your not happy with it and would like to return to your old blogger commenting system, with all your comments intact. It's very simple...go to layout...Edit HTML...then scroll down to "Revert widget templates to default". Thats all there is to it, but remember you probably will loose some formatting, but the main thing is your comments should all be back on your blog under the old google commenting format.

You will be getting commentluv installed by using 2 sites to do it ...www.commentluv.com and www.js-kit.com. Sounds complicated, but its not after a bit of practice, just follow all the steps very carefully. I actually played the video and followed along by pressing pause and play.

I did have some questions and I got excellent support from Andy Bailey at commentluv right away, so if you have any troubles you will get help very quickly.

Install CommentLuv to Blogger using JS-kit comments from Andy Bailey on Vimeo.

If you understand all the steps in this video, you should have no problems getting commentluv on your blogger blog. Remember though, you should practice everything out on a practice blogspot so you will know exactly what your doing before you add it to the blog you don't want to mistakes on.

Important
Once your done with everything, do NOT log out. You need a js-kit profile so you will be able to log in and out. There are a few methods of doing it and the one below is one of the ways of doing it without having to use open id etc.

Go to js-kit.com and make a comment on it, yes anywhere on their site. When you see a reply to comment make sure to leave a comment as a New Js-Kit profile...this is where you will create your Login and Password. Once you have created it then you can log in and out of Js-Kit.

So how can you now log in and out of js-kit now? Go to your own site that you just set up. Click on any of the comments on your own site and leave a comment as an Existing Js-Kit profile and log in. You do not need to leave a comment, you're just logging in to js-kit from your very own site.

Resize photos fast

2008-12-06T12:05:00.000-08:00

If you’re like me you probably love Photoshop because it’s so easy to use, it's very user friendly and can be learned really quickly, Not!

Try rsizr.com and resizr.com, they are quick to learn (intelligent image resizing) and it will do a lot of the basic work you’re usually looking to do with your photos. One feature I really like is “Crop” that’s really quick to use. Just click crop, grab the part of the picture you want, save and your done. Another good feature is that it shows you the dimensions of your photos, just type them in and get exactly what your after.

Need some music for your blog? Try deezer.com, I know music played automatically on sites you visit is extremely annoying, but maybe just for Christmas ? You can also create a playlist of your favorite songs as well.

Create a great Photostory

2008-12-05T10:39:00.000-08:00

Photo Story from Microsoft, is one of my favorite sites. I find Photo Story a lot more interesting to watch then just static (well no motion anyways) photos. I can spend hours and hours having fun arranging photos trying to create a story. It’s very easy to use and it reminds me a lot of PowerPoint, but even if you’re not familiar with ppt. it’s still very easy to learn.

Its just one click to import you’re pictures then your ready to go, it’s about that simple. Customizing the motion is fun and adding text and music has never been so simple. It’s a lot of fun mixing photos. So instead of just putting your photos online, Photo Story can help bring them to life as well as with add interest with music, I know I’m hooked...it’s fun.

50 GB of Online Storage...Free

2008-12-04T10:50:00.000-08:00

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Get 50GB of Free storage from Adrive

Free 50GB for storage or backup. That’s a lot of space even for videos and it sure makes it easy to access your files wherever you are. It’s also a great place to share your files and not have to worry so much about viruses etc. I know I’m not always good at backing up files, it’s a pain, but with free 50GB extra storage online it makes things a little easier.

If you’re working on something, from more than one location (work, school, etc), you can also just store your files there to access from wherever you are logging in from. I went back to school full time last year and it sure was a pain putting PC work on that memory stick (USB Key) everyday. I almost lost that memory stick and even put it through the washing machine once, so this site is another option.