Creating a URL for your blog on Blogspot.com

In the blog system is an address URL.

Go to Blogger, to your account, to SETTINGS, to PUBLISHING. the Blog*Spot Address is right there. You nay have to create the word inside the text box.

Example: http://PONYCLUBDAD.blogspot.com

http://vermipostpa.BLOGSPOT.COM

On that same page there is a link that you can use to create a Custom Domain name for $10.00.

Example: www.thewormist.com

Let me know if that works for you!

Jeff

New website for www.mem-x.us

Posted today, a website for a memory assistance device from France, which is now available in the US. Home page is HERE. This site was built by cloning the french site and replacing the buttons with 'hotspots" linking to all english and locally customized pages.

This device is primarily used by families of Alsheimer's victims to create pre-recorded reminders that are triggered by the device and announced through a small speaker on the Mem-x device. As small as most cell phones, the Mem-x reminder is worn on a lanyard around the neck, or clipped to the patient's shirt.

More details at the new US website: http://www.mem-x.us

Convert PDF files to Word or Excel!!

Look at this!! It's free and web-based. This one converts PDF Files to Word.docs PDF to Word

This one converts PDF to Excel

Have fun!

Jeff

New Website roughed out for M.S. Pecora Realtor

We have finished initial design of the website for Mike and Cheryl Pecora of West Hazleton, PA.   

Having chalenges getting the Greater Hazleton Board of Realtors MLW Flex msl to appear, but will continue that effort.

Slide show of listings in Hazleton homes for sale is from picasa but may explore flickr.com .

 

www.actionagency.biz

www.mspecorarealtor.com

www.pecoraactionagency.com

www.pecorarealestate.com

www.pecorarealty.com

Created by Reykur Associates!

 

Created an opening paragraph: M.S. Pecora Realtor is Hazleton and west Hazleton's leading office for single family, multi-family commercial homes, rentala, properties and land.  We help families buy houses and homes from first time buyers to real estate investors. We can arrange for you to meet with local morgage companies, secure financing, get an lappraisal, estimate the market value of my your house.

Loaded a keyword block:

Homes in Hazleton hispanic speaking realtor sell my house West Hazleton hazleton conyngham sugarloaf, drums butler valley, mcadoo keylares freeland beavermeadows, schuylkill county luzerne county carbon county, weatherly eagle rock ringtown shenandoah milnesville shepton, jeddo, eckley minersvillage, poconos, bog boulder, mountaintop, knoebles, hazleton standard speaker, mayor lou barletta, cando humbolt industrial park as seen in the times leader, wkrz, wazl hazleton area high school

Keeping in touch with the kid

Text'ing the kid when you don't have a cell phone.

This isn't original, but I just received it from a business forum:

When a phone call is too intrusive and e-mail is too slow, or you don't have access to a cell phone (battery dead, no minutes, etc) nothing beats a text message. Google just rolled out a new feature that lets you send text messages straight from Gmail to a contact's phone.

To enable this option, open Gmail, click on Settings, then go to the Labs tab. Scroll down until you see "Text Messaging (SMS) in Chat" and select Enable and Save Changes.

For the moment, "Gmail SMS" works only with cell phones that have U.S. phone numbers. To get started, type a phone number into the search box in Gmail's chat window on the left, then select "Send SMS." You can also select the contact you want to SMS first and then add their phone number.

This isn't just a one-way operation: You can actually "chat" via SMS this way. Your message arrives on the recipient's phone; replies get routed back to your Gmail chat window. Definitely a handy tool for home-bound parents, as texting from a keyboard is a lot quicker and easier than texting from a phone.

1,000 uses around the home:

WIMC? ( Where is my car?)
GBHTI! (get back here this instant!)
IBNCYWTJK... (I better not catch you with that Jones kid...)

but I digress...

I realize this isn't horse related, but emergencies happen.

Hope this comes in handy some day.

Jeff(dot)Kurtz
Mountain Laurel PC

original post: http://blogs.bnet.com/businesstips/?p=2204

Creating a Google Calendar for membes or website

Here's a video (Google Calendar Basics) to help you create a calendar for your club or organization. 

Calendars can be private or public, contain much or limited detail.  Go ahead, get creative!  I'm certain there are tricks I haven't seen.

Video #2 (Google Calendar Advanced) shows how to acces the HTML code to paste into your blog or website.  Shows examples of some uses, and hightlights where the HELP button is stored.

Have fun, and leave success stories!

Jeff

A Question on posting pictures to websites.

Hi Jeff,
A while back you suggested that I add some pictures to our Pony Club website and I now have a collection of pictures from this past year that I'd like to post. My problem is I don't know how to best do that. We are using Google Pages (which will be converted to Google Sites sometime soon according to Google.com). I thought I could simply copy the pictures into PowerPoint and make them into a slide show and post that, but the file is massive (130KB) and is too big to upload onto the Google Pages site. Now I'm stumped. The pictures are all JPEG files but some are a few thousand KB while others are less than 100. Is there a way that I can compress those big ones so that they don't take up so much memory?

Any hints you can offer would be much appreciated. (You are going to rue the day that I got ahold of your e-mail address!!!).

Thanks (once again) for your help.
Shelley

Try using www.picasa.com Take a look at one of my blogs and the slide
shows there. http://ponyclubdad.blogspot.com also see the front page of
www.dressage4kids.com

Picasa is a google product so you just log in with your google password.
You will want to download the picasa 3.0 . It doesn't take up much
memory, and it doesn't touch your filing system. It simply crates it's
own index system of where your pics are stored. The you can select pics
or folders, at the bottom of the page there's a "linktoweb" or something
like that, and it uploads the pics to your picasa online album system. In
the process it compresses them ( I think you can choose the amount of
compression. And, it takes up NO space or memory on your website.

If you click on things like "album properties" you can set albums to be viewable by the public or not. (just incase you're storing non-pertinent photos in the same account.)

THEN... I know this is getting long... every photo has it's own URL, every
album has it's own URL and a URL for a matching slideshow. you can link to
the show or embed it using the HTML code it creates for you.

I need to do a video of how this works before the national meeting...
sounds like it's time!

I have about a dozen different picasa accounts so that if the viewer clicks
to see other pics they are only going to see pics that relate to each other.
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