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The Big Art Daily Community

May 10, 2007 by Tricia

You know, it’s interesting how easy it is to make great connections over the internet. It seems that every week, or even almost every day, a new interesting opportunity comes my way. It might be a friendship, or it might be a business arrangement, it might even be an exchange of ideas or a promotional exchange.

One of the interesting connections that I made this week involves the Big Art Daily community. You might remember that I’ve written about Wallhogs in the past? Wallhogs are big prints that you can put on your walls.

Well, Scott from Wallhogs liked my post and many of the others that they received and decided to pass on a bit of linky love through their Wallhogs blog. I visited the site and thanked him for giving me a link back, and somehow we got talking about photography and I was invited to submit some of my photos to their “Big Art Daily” community.

They plan on featuring a photo a day and they have an open invite for all photographers to join in.

I think this is a great site, and a great way of promoting photography, and photographers. Through this connection my art work is promoted, as is my photo site Breath of Life Photography, and all of the photographers who connect with them and allow some of their photos to be published on the site are helping them out with their commitment to their Big Art Daily project.

If you enjoy great photography or if you’d like to join in, check out the site.

I’m just paying it forward. I’m pleased by the site, honored to have my photos promoted and wanted to get the word out to other photographers.





Filed Under: Cool stuff, Culture, Hobbies, Photography, Recreation Tagged With: Art, Big art daily, blog, Breath of Life, camera, community, digital camera, Linky Love, photo a day, photographer, Photography, photos, wallhogs, Wallhogs blog

iGliss – organize your media and all the websites you enjoy in one place!

May 5, 2007 by Tricia

I just spent some time visiting a new site where members can Mix, sync, and share your media from the Web and PCs. This new site is called iGliss.

The site was created in order to make it easier for you to both collect, mix, synchronize various types of media, and then share it with your friends or with the world. Once you register you can begin using the site to share your favorite photos, videos, audio recordings or even blogs from the web.

There are so many interesting features it’s hard to know where to begin. You can use iGliss in so many ways. As I mentioned above you can simply use it to share your pictures and videos with friends and family, or you can use the site to keep track of cool photos that your friends and acquaintance’s have recently posted on Flickr.

You can watch the latest videos from sites like YouTube and Grouper, or listen to internet talk shows and news podcasts. You can even use it to read new posts from from favorite blogs.

I really like some of the features. I mean, I run several websites, yet I want to stay in touch with what’s happening on the web and read my ever growing list of favorite blogs but it can be hard to keep up with it all. I spend an hour on a forum, an hour or two reading RSS feeds or visiting site after site, then to relax or get ideas for posts I might sometimes stop in at Youtube to see if there’s any good videos that I can use. Now, with iGliss it seems like I can do much of that right from the iGliss site. That’s amazing. For me that would be a real time saver!

You don’t have to upload anything to the site. All you need to do once you become a free member is start selecting websites, RSS feeds and any other media that you’d like to list in your account and iGliss will automatically synchronize the media content that you’ve selected and keep track of it all for you.

I’m in. I just signed up for a membership. I think I’ll be exploring the site for a while! See you there I hope!

Filed Under: Cool stuff, Entertainment, Photography, Recreation, Services, Video, Web and Technology Tagged With: audio, iGliss, media, mix sync and share, Movies, Music, organize media, photos, pictures, RSS feeds, share media, share websites, vlogs, websites

Download the latest Anime releases

April 20, 2007 by Tricia

Anime is hot these days, and I’ve just come back from visiting a site that offers free anime, manga and dramas. In fact, the site has over 4,000 GB of free and paid anime.

AnimeGround is a site that offers paid membership for as low as 9.95 per month. It also has a free section that offers direct downloads of hundreds of series and movies. If you enjoy anime series this is the place to be. They host over 603 anime series – 452 manga series, and 143 drama series.

AnimeGround offers high speed downloads. Their servers have unmetered dedicated bandwidth and this makes the site work smooth, and downloading a breeze. You can download your choose files via direct download or ftp download. It’s your choice. Members can download as much as they’d like each month without any limits.

You’ll always be able to view and download the latest new anime and manga releases, as their software automatically downloads any new features and adds them to the achieve. This is great news for anime devotees as they could have the latest anime production within an hour of it’s release.

AnimeGround also has a discussion forum where you can talk about the latest and upcoming releases with forum members. There’s a general discussion area as well as sections for ratings and tutorials, graphics, and a free section.

AnimeGround is the ultimate site for Anime enthusiasts – be sure to visit.

Filed Under: Cool stuff, Entertainment, Recreation, Services, Shopping, Toronto, Video, Web and Technology Tagged With: anime, anime download, AnimeGround, animeground forum, animeground membership, download, drama, free anime, latest anime releases, manga

Fun game – make over a 1985 wireless cellphone

April 11, 2007 by Tricia

Now here’s something cool! Your Wireless Source has just launched a site with a fun game where site visitors can “makeover” an old wireless Motorola cell phone.

Get this, the old 1985 Motorola cell phone is nicknamed Dusty.

When you play the “Makeover for Dusty” game you can choose his face, hair, accessories, clothing and locations. He interacts with you and gets sassy at each choice.

Once you’ve completed Dusty’s new look you can rename him and post his image on the Your Wireless Source photo gallery. You can also email your made over Dusty to your friends with a customizable voice message.

I just started working on my Dusty Makeover. Here’s what the “Makeover” screen looks like.

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I’ll see if I can post another image of my made over Dusty as soon as I’m done my creation. Let’s see who can do the best Dusty makeover. BTW I love the music! Make sure you turn your sound on if you try this fun game.

Ok here’s my Dusty Makeover. I called him Pimpy-Dusty in the photo gallery. Why does he remind me a bit of Bender in Futurama?:

dusty2.jpg

If you upload your Dusty makeover to the photo gallery it might be rated by other “Stylists” and of course you can rate other peoples creations too. Come on … give it a try. It’s fun.

As an extra bonus, when you are working with Dusty to give him a new look you’ll be able to see a promotion code worth 10% off any of the wireless accessories that are sold at Your Wireless Source. The promotion is valid until 12/31/07

Filed Under: Cool stuff, Web and Technology, Website Promotion Tagged With: 10 percent off cell phone accessories, 1985 motorola, cell phone stylist, cool music, Dusty makeover, fun game, makeover a wireless motorola, photo gallery, promotion code, rate others, Your Wireless Source

Personalize your posts and e-mail with a signature

March 28, 2007 by Tricia

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I think that most people try to personalize the e-mail that they send in some way. Often people will add their name and possibly a link to their website to the end of the e-mail that they are sending. In fact, most e-mail programs can be set up to do this automatically.

Wouldn’t it be nice to make your email signature even more personal? Well you can with My Live Signature. In fact, you can use the signature that you create on Mylivesignature.com in your e-mail, forum posts, blog posts, website, and documents.

I suppose that pretty much anywhere that you can attach or embed an image you could use your personal “MyliveSignature” image.

You can create an imitation of your signature using the signature creation wizard. The creation wizard is completely free to use. All you have to do is register for a free account on the MyLiveSignature site.

Using the signature creation wizard I typed in “Tricia P.”. Yes, my last name is probably easy enough to find, but for now we’ll just go with the initial for my last name. I was then taken to a page that listed examples of Tricia P. written in different font styles. I was given over 100 choices of styles.

I could chose from styles that were in very ornate, or old English style font or ones closer to true hand writing or printing. I’m left handed and I was pleased to see that some of the signature styles had the appearance of being written by a lefty.

I picked a signature that was close enough to my own handwriting style, and then clicked on the “next” button at the end of the page. On the next page I picked the size of the signature that I wanted, and after that I picked the color of the signature.

I was surprised, and pleased, to find that I still had more choices to make. The fourth step in the Signature creation wizard was to select the “Slope” or angle of the signature. I chose one on a slight slope to give it a more hurried and authentic look.

The final step was to simply name the file. When I clicked finished the file was saved as I’d named it “triciap” and I could access it from a menu on the left side of the page by selecting “Use my Signature”.

When I clicked on “Use my Signature” I was taken to a page that gave me a choice of HTML or BB code. I picked HTML code and was given two more choices as to how I wanted the final signature to look and then I generated the code.

Here’s the signature file that I created:

Isn’t that cool?

The MyLiveSignature.com site has a tutorial that you can go through to see all of the options you can use while creating a signature.

They also offer a service where you can submit an image of your actual signature and their designers will create a MyliveSignature” file of your real signature. If you’d like to use your real signature they have two options and the prices range from $9.95 for a scanned image, to $19.95 for an animated image. You can get 20% off the price of an animated signature right now.

I like how easy it was to create a signature file. You can easily create new signatures in different styles or colors to suit the site or document that you wanted to use them in.

I can see signature files from MyLiveSignature.com being used on blogs all over the world to give posts a personal touch.

Filed Under: Cool stuff, Graphics, Services, Web and Technology Tagged With: animated signature, create signature, documents, forum signature, left handed, MyLiveSignature.com, personal signature, personalize, posts, real signature, use signature in posts

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