Friday, March 30, 2012

Got Milk Font for your font lovers.

This is one of my favorite fonts that I have used from time to time for shirts in the past.

The font name for the Got Milk font is Phenix American

http://fontzone.net/font-download/Phenix+American/

Make sure you back up your fonts. This was a hard lesson I learned when my computer had gotten a nasty virus and essentially wiped my computer to a craw.


Wednesday, March 28, 2012

New Time line and what it means to small business

The new Facebook timeline has if you know changed how people create their Facebook fan pages for their business. Although I am not a big fan of the new timeline it, the new timeline offers a few features that for any business provides something more. It allows a business owner to tell their story and it features those who provide comments about your product as well.

I'm still doing more research on what other companies have done with the new layout but I'm sure many who had custom landing pages were very upset that one could no longer change the default page or at least that I know of.

Until then Facebook page has been bar none the best way to engage with your audience and see what they like about your business.

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

How to do a screen capture.

A screen capture is essentially a way to capture your entire screen as you are viewing it.

Prt Scr button
To do a screen capture you hold your Ctrl button key on your keyboard and then hit the key the should say on most keyboards Prt Scr which means print screen.

Now it won't print the screen but it will capture an image in the temporary memory of your computer until you paste it.

For example if you want to go into your MS word you would open up MS Word

To paste your screen capture you can go to the edit tab on the top left and click the edit tab.

You will then scroll and click the paste tab.

There you have it your screen capture.

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Khan Academy - free tutorials on arithmetic to physics

I found this website watching 60 mins and its a non profit website which offers free classes on different forms of math to art history and chemistry course. I viewed a few of them and they seem very easy to follow.

I'm posting this as not only a reference for those who are reading but also a reference for myself as well.

Anyway check out  the site.

http://www.khanacademy.org/

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Godaddy shared hosting review

I have used Godaddy for many years and for the most part I would say I was satisfied to some degree with the use of the hosting services. The price for hosting was competitive for most hosting sites and useful for a any aspiring computer geek.  It was the first service which I used to ftp my first website but sadly it would be my last.

As I became busy I needed a website where I didn't have to tinker to much with the HTML or CSS coding so my solution was an open source CMS. If your not familiar with the coined term CMS it stands for content management system which is essentially a database driven website which runs off a template of your choosing.

The plus side about using a content management system is that you can remotely access your CMS and add delete content and pictures on your site. I built a template for one of my photographer friends but later only to find out that many of the CMS that you can install on godaddy seem to be very sluggish or stop to a craw.

It was very disappointing since I knew my friend wanted a website where she could go and add and change information and photos.

In summary the shared hosting is not a good solution if your looking to build a content management system on the shared godaddy platform.

Let me know of any hosting that offers a good price and can run a content management system with no problem I would love to know.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Facebook's new timeline and what it means to publishers

If you like many online have a facebook landing page for your business, the rules may change on what the default is to what your customers will see when they click the facebook icon on your website. I believe the change will take place this month when all pages even personal ones will take on the timeline look.

Friday, March 2, 2012

Google Plus Ap

I just uploaded the Google plus ap onto my phone which allows the phone user to upload photos to the Google cloud automatically. I remember having lost my phone with all the photos I have taken how I wish I had this feature.

Time will tell and see if this feature is something I can use in the future. The back up of photos I'm sure is well worth it.