Just picking up the pieces

You may have wondered where the heck I was for so long after Christmas, with good reason!
Many of the people in my circle are wondering the same thing; has he kicked it or is he ill or maybe he was taken away by Aliens and probed for the wealth of knowledge stored away in that vast chamber of dark secrets called a mind?

Does anyone really care, nope!

Well the truth of the matter is just a simple event like my web host all of a sudden in the middle of the busiest season of them all just up and died on me, not really death as we know it Jim! Just a vanishing act, and whilst the disappearance was happening they took all of my lovely web sites with them, those barstewards!!

So, in the ensuing weeks and months I have had to rebuild and remake and research and find a new host and start all over again. O.K., YES, I have been told numerous times about making backup copies of all the hours of pounding away at the keyboard and still Never Got A Round Toit!

Please take the lesson from me and make a backup of all your files, and also make them so that they can be added to or "Append To" so you always have an up to date copy of what you're doing.

You can see the fruit of my keyboard antics and play some Free Online Games as well or add them to your website or blog or profile on Facebook or Myspace or any other Social Networking site you wish to, just by copying the code below the game and pasting it into your page, and you can even download them to your machine and play when you're not even connected, simple eh?

I'll be adding some really cool stuff now that I am sort of back to my old tricks, so stay tuned, you may be surprised!

FREE Santa Claus Letter for Your Children

Santa Claus is writing to all children for FREE if they have been good boys and girls.
That's one thing I always wanted when I was a child, now I get to make sure everyone who wishes can do this for their child and for no cost.

I know that I should of had this working before now and I did want it to be, but I also wanted to make sure everything was working properly!

The site lets you add the details of your child and then personalizes a letter to them from Santa Claus and sends it by email to an email address you choose.


The smile on the face of a child as they or you read this letter from Santa to them and mentioning their name, age and where they live, what toys they expect, parents & friends name - all add to their excitement for the coming holiday.

You can create as many as you like - No Cost - at this address:
http://budurl.com/FreeLetter

Choose to mention Both parents or just Mother or just Father in the letter and it will make the necessary changes to the letter and then send it by email.

Please let your friends know that they can use this service at no cost too.
http://budurl.com/FreeLetter

New URL Shrinker with Tracking

I have found out about the newest online URL Shrinker and it's called BudURL.
If you're not sure what that means then let me explain why you need to be using one of these in your daily business efforts online.

When you are trying to get people to go to a certain website and the only link that you have to give those people looks something like: http://www.mediafire.com/?8v2bq4v3tdw , then most people will probably think I'm not goin' to type all that in or even remember that link for more than a couple seconds.
Then you can see why it make sense to use the BudURL application to shorten that link to something more memorable like http://budurl.com/MasteryofTheAir and have all the link information to hand whenever you want to see it and be able to then see if your efforts have made an impact.
You can use this service for FREE now and they are adding more features all the time!
This tool is the "Love Child" of Live Oak 360 .

Make a Cool Word Graphic from your blog

I was reading Joe Vitale's blog and saw the link to this really cool Word Cloud graphic creator.
It will take a URL of any website and turn it into a word cloud by using the actual words on your page.
This TOY is Cool because it takes the words that are used more frequently and gives them a bigger font size and then scrambles them all up and places them into a graphic that you can then use on your page or print and/or place in their Gallery for the world to see.
Of course if you think about it a bit there is a place on the gallery images for comments about your creation which you can get another link to your website!
After it creates your graphic, then you get to tweak it by making changes to the Font, Layout and Color Scheme.

Official Google Blog: A fresh take on the browser

Official Google Blog: A fresh take on the browser

Well, Google have definitely had their thinking caps on again with the emergence
of "Google Chrome", what's that you ask?

Google Chrome is a NEW Web Browser built from Open Source and that means to
you that when it gets out of the testing stages (in Beta now) it will be a new FREE
browser made to the specification of the people who are probably online Most of
Their Lives - the Google Team!

Look out for news on the release of the stable version of this browser because it
promises to be "The One" and it should be.

For now check out the comic book that Google has used to describe Chrome.

I will be keeping up with this one to be sure!

Torn Paper Effect using GIMP

I wanted to give you a very cool idea this time!

There is this FREE SOFTWARE called the GIMP and it is a very good rival to PhotoShop, it is really easy to get to grips with using it. It also works on Mac OS X and Unix!

Also there is this website called Stock.xchng where you can find FREE Photos to add to your projects, most of these are marked as Royalty FREE and some are just marked as "let publisher know where/when used" no fees to pay.

The website also hosts photos that will cost a nominal fee but there is no need to use those unless they are the ones that you Must-Have to use in your project.

My suggestion is to take a look at this tutorial, yes people even show you how to use the different tools available for manipulating photos with on this website, it shows how to take a photo and convert it to a picture that looks like a ripped in half photo, very cool and useful!

Play with the Gimp and see what you can do with the many Plug-ins that are developed for it, you'll be pleasantly surprised to see all the support this software has and probably won't even give PhotoShop another look!

Gimp Basics

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