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As I develop and learn more about promoting my own Facebook Fan Page, I want to share what I find and learn about with all of you. One thing I have been most often is that many fan pages are taking advantage of having a larger profile picture, to keep your brand front and center. So, today – I’ll be walking you through the process I took when it came to giving mine the same sort of facelift on Facebook.
Favicons are an important part of any website these days. They are your tiny 16 by 16 identifiers for your brand, your store, your blog or your business. If you are looking for a great tool to help you create the favicon you want to use – give favigen a shot.
Ever wonder if there was a search engine devoted to just searching Twitter images? Oh there is – and its name is Twtimage. This website is a Twitter photo search engine. It will fetch search results from twitpic, tweetphoto, img.ly and yfrog.com. So, how does it work and is it worth your time?
Rollip will allow you to upload, edit and create your own Poloraoid-like photos from any image on your computer.
Looking for a way to get that great old Polaroid photo look, without the old fashioned camera? Say what you will about the crappy film, however, to me at least, it always felt like a step backwards moving from Polaroid to 35mm film – because sure, the photos looked better, but they were not instant. Plus, who doesn’t miss waving their photo in the air (and sometimes even blowing on it) because an uncle’s niece’s friend that you knew from his brother’s sister told you it helped them develop faster.
Try it out on Rollip.com, and take a trip back to the way photos used to be.
Sharing your images has never been easier with the thanks of imgur. No, this isn’t just a tribute to the fact that all the good names are taken. Imgur makes image sharing as easy as it can. You have a browse box, where you can select your picture from, then you continue. The requirements are it has to be under 2MB, and in the jpg, gif, or png format.
Have any more questions? The FAQ would be a good place to start. Overall I like easy, I like simple so I like imgur for free photo sharing.
I like green.
I always have, and I always probably will. With that said, I wanted to both give you some great green wallpaper and try out a new Google search technique I picked up from an article on Lifehacker.
First, here are some of my favorite green wallpapers I have found from around the Web:
Now where is the trick?
Next time you search Google Images, be sure to try typing in, imagesize:1680×1050 green. Changing the dimensions, will change the resolution of the picture you are looking for, and insert any search term you want (doesn’t have to be green) for the type of wallpaper you are looking for.
There you have it – two for one deal just for you.
There is no doubt that image hosts these days are coming a dime a dozen. Fumpr is yet another service you can add to that ever growing list of free image hosting providers, and they cut out all the details, fuss and more. You have an upload button, and a “browse to my file” box. That is it.. well, OK they have a huge logo too.
As you can see, after you have uploaded your image you can share the URL with friends, download, embed it into a web page of your own or grab the forum ready code. Might also want to check out their sister service too, Fix Up My Pic.
Well yesterday was the big day – got my desktop PC back from HP!
Looks like they replaced my power supply and I should be back up and running as I was in a few days at most. Going to take time to get things synced back over from my laptop to my desktop. Overall I would say I was very impressed with how HP handled the situation. A couple of days ago they even gave me a phone call to see how things were going and if I had gotten it back yet – that was nice.
On a side note, I can also report that Windows Vista’s image based backup service actually works! I made a backup of my PC before I sent it off and I am now back to how I was two weeks ago (even after a few reformats in between). I am almost scared to praise them too much because then the wheels might fall off – but thus far that part of the experience has been the most surprising of all.
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Mitch Keeler is nothing more than your average Joe trying to leave his mark on the world though both his professional work and his online projects, articles, podcasts and more.
