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Check out what can be done with Jing on a Mac! I was talking around the office today and decided I wanted to know if Jing could capture the dashboard and some widgets. Guess I was right! The hint is that you need to use your hotkey, by default on a Mac it???s Command +…
So tonight I created a video for my friend RobinYap on how to add watermarks to tons of files using SnagIt‘s Batch conversion process. Take a look!
I am pleased to post these tutorials that I have been working on for the last few weeks. These are something that took a lot of time to do since Camtasia Studio was giving me a little problems and then my hosting solution had to change over as well. I have decided to post these…
I had a friend email me a couple of cool sites the past few days and wanted to share them with you. First off is Twitter. Twitter is a social networking service that allows members to inform each other about what they are doing and what they think. It allows users to send message via…
So I had a few people ask about the WordPress tutorials and I wanted to let everyone know that they are done, but I ran into a few snags with getting everything working right with Camtasia Studio, which is what I recorded them in.? I think I have everything working ok now and I will…
Today I thought I would talk about WordPress and the creator of WordPress. WordPress is a blog publishing system written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. It is the official successor of b2cafelog and has a thriving user and developer community. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License, so WordPress is…
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I am a big fan of using Calendly to help schedule a wide range of meetings, from internal to external meetings. I may have been known to send out a Calendly link to a friend from time to time to have them schedule lunch or playtime with our kids. While it ends up being incredibly…
I love photography. In fact, I love using photography in my designs for websites I build. One thing we can all agree on is that stock photography is awful. And it’s expensive. It is generic and in some cases you see images on your site on others. Some other folks noticed this too. So they…
Most products are built because they aim too solve a problem. It could be a problem that you, yourself encountered, or something a friend encountered. But it’s a problem that started us on the journey of developing a solution to. Now like other product developers out there, I have made a career solving problems. Problems…
We all have an idea to solve particular problems we encounter regularly. Good or bad we sometimes tend to get emotionally invested in those ideas. We then go and talk to our immediate network about it and decide to put all our savings on the line. Sometimes we even start raising money from family and…
You just spent the last 3 months building a product that solves a problem you encountered. All the spent your time working hard, putting in long hours, setting up a website, even getting all your social media accounts setup. It is likely youu might have even put together a marketing plan, starting blogging, and got…
eCommerce has been something that I’ve wanted to focus a lot of my energy on. I’ve been running eCommerce sites for the last 5 years. In an inbound or content marketing perspective, I understand the pre-sale side of eCommerce and am always looking at tools that can help earn a sale quicker and with the…
After spending a decade as a web developer, I was finding that I wanted another challenge. I felt that I was getting comfortable in my position and I wanted to find a way make a change. I wasn’t sure what that change was. But it was going to be something. I spent several weeks doing…
Entrepreneurship can be a challenge. And no challenge is fun going alone. If you are running a successful business, chances are you aren’t alone, you have employees. But you may be alone in how you make some of the decisions. Masterminds are a great way to get honest feedback, help refine your ideas, and share…
I read a statistic recently that 71% of people quit their New Years Resolutions after the second week. If you are like me, and just recently set some goals (or new years resolutions), then it’s time to start getting things into high gear. I had the opportunity to attend WooConf back in October. Over dinner…
Throughout the year I spend a lot of time by myself. Between traveling, commuting, and grocery shopping, I have a lot of down time. I used to hate it, but then I realized that I could use that time to learn new things. And as a perpetual learning, I thought it was a great idea…