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You can use Tinychat for video, text and microphone conferencing whether for business or with friends. With no download necessary, Tinychat is a great alternative to Skype, allowing up to 12 broadcasts. Just make a room then send the link to those you want to invite to video conference.

Although the interface is simple, there are a couple steps in order to get started with your video conference room. Name a chatroom and click create, make a screen name, password, enter your email, check the over 18 box and enter the captcha. The “Start Broadcasting” button at the top left gives the option of video camera, microphone or both. You can even import other camera options with an application from manycam.com to change lens options or add a tropical background to yourself.

Tinychat, by allowing multiple broadcasts at once makes communication in real time easy. Change your text color with the command /color= or change your nickname by double clicking on your name. Tinychat supports multiple browsers, but perhaps not the new beta version of IE9. Try out Tinychat to talk to clients or friends and get your video on today!

Some tinychat commands:
/color (changes the color of your chat)
/topic this is the room topic (changes the room topic, if you are a room operator)
/msg nickname this is private (sends a private message to another user in the room)
/ignore nickname (blocks their chat messages from appearing on your screen)
/ban nickname (kicks and bans the user from the room, if you are a room operator)
/banlist (displays the ban/forgive list, if you are a room operator)
/oper nickname (makes that user a room operator like you)
/broadcast nickname (allows that user to broadcast)
/close nickname (closes that user’s broadcast if you had allowed them)

You can make your own GIF files for blog posts and even in web design projects. This is a widely used graphics format for the Internet that allows transparency and animation. By simply adding animation to a blog post or website, you might just spice it up enough to entice your visitors into staying longer.

GIF files, also known as Graphics Interchange Format is a widely used graphics format that allows animation and transparency. GIFs can be created either using software or a website. The limitation of this format is that it the maximum number of colors is 256, but can often give the illusion of more colors. Some GIF creation websites include gickr.com, picasion.com, makeagif.com and loogix.com.

You can usually upload about a dozen pics to use in your GIF animation and have a variety of options to choose from such as speed, size, looping and the number of pics allowed. The size generally spans from 100 to 400 pix and the speed generally goes from slow to fast, with some other customization available. Once you finished creating your GIF, if it’s under 150 kb, you could even use it as an emoticon on your instant messenger.

GIFs are ideal to spice up a blog post or integrate into your web design. You can upload GIFs to enhance your webpage visitor’s experience instead of photos. Use these tips to dazzle your website design or blog with an animated GIF today.

How would you like to add your likeness on a building or a movie theater screen? Perhaps put your image on a billboard or in the clouds. Now you can with LoonaPix Photo Editor. Try this photo graphics website to have some fun and turn your photos into works of art.

Once you finish with one photo effect, the links to change the effect or upload another photo are close by, so navigation on this website is simple. When you are done editing one photo, you can either add a different effect or just upload another one. Rather than using a photoshop program, LoonaPix Photo Editor could prove to be a good option for a photo editing website.

I also found that Photomontage Generator from WriteOnIt had a variety of excellent photograph effects as well, with the main difference being that you choose the photo effect first, then upload a photo.

There’s No Place Like www.home.com, your business website’s home page. With this familiarity, the website should encompass a professional theme. The home page should make visitors feel just as comfortable, but sometimes it’s hard to have an objective opinion of your own site.

The journey of a thousands sites begins with a single click, so maintain a positive first impression. With a positive home page reaction, your website visitors soon become interested in products or services offered. Sharp graphics and layout should use appropriate colors and fonts to match your business cards and printed material. The website visitors should be able to recognize your market branding on a website that is easy to navigate. Give your potential customers the ability to gather information quickly and easily.

The home page is the first thing your website visitors see and should attract website traffic. Bringing repeat customers is the advantage of a small business website, and with enough visual appeal, visitors will be encouraged to bookmark the website and tell a friend as well.

What happens when you put a Porsche engine into a Pinto? The Pinto can’t handle it, and to make it fit, you’d have to change so much about the car that’s it’s not even a Pinto anymore. After the parts and labor, you probably would’ve saved money just buying the Porsche.

Much like a website, without the engine to drive it, it can’t go anywhere. Using some “cheap company” is great to just have a website online, but the website is not yours. Now you have some company with their claws into you, probably having to pay a monthly fee for the rest of your life. Chances are they would never give up the control of registrar to let another website designer give it SEO.

By knowing about quality and “you get what you pay for”, we see that going with some do-it-yourself company could have you paying a monthly fee for nothing. You may find that you can’t even find your website in search engines even by typing the name of your company, location and type of business.

Sure, it’s great to have a website to send people to, so they can read more about your business, but the idea of having a website online is for search engines to index you and generate traffic for your business. Your website is about promotion. The more traffic you generate to your business could bring more potential customers.

Next month Microsoft will launch the beta version of Internet Explorer 9 with accelerated HTML5. The intent of this software giant’s next-generation web browser is to allow “a more beautiful web that feels native on Windows,” says Microsoft.

IE9 will be available in a public beta release for the first time on September 15th, 2010 at Microsoft’s event in San Francisco. Microsoft formally releases the new version at its “Beauty of the Web” event in hopes to wow people and fend off any competition from such rivals as Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

IE9′s integration of HTML5 with full hardware acceleration is clearly a first step and it is good for Microsoft to be behind HTML5 – Al Hilwa, Director of Applications Software Development at the International Data Corporation

IE9′s features are based upon using the power of the whole PC to achieve the greatest websurfing experience. Internet Explorer 9 began from the premise of the internet delivering HTML5 experiences which feel more like a native application than a website. If you are still using Windows XP and would like to use Internet Explorer 9, you’ll need to upgrade to Windows Vista or Windows 7 in order to run this browser.

In order to find out what version of Internet Explorer you are running, simply go to the ‘Help’ tab on your web browser toolbar and choose the option ‘About Internet Explorer’. To find out what version of Windows you are currently running, click on “Start” on your taskbar, type “run” in the searchbox, and in the run dialog box type “winver” and click OK. A window will display the exact version of Windows you are running and any service packs installed.

Post update: The IE9 Beta has been released and I’m currently using it. I like the new feel to it with the Windows Vista operating system, with a few subtle changes. Download Download Internet Explorer 9 now and enjoy a better browsing experience. Simply choose your language and Windows version then click download.

Consider these computer management shortcut tips when working with documents, photos or videos. Using shortcuts is very helpful and saves time when working on anything. With quick ways of accomplishing complicated tasks, your projects will tend to run smoothly.

Some useful tips include the use of shortcut keys such as with the shift or control button. Copying text or a section of a photo can be easily done with ‘control + x’ to cut, ‘control + c’ to copy, ‘control + v’ to paste and ‘control + a’ to select all. To undo anything on a text document or a graphic, just click ‘ctrl + z’.

Here’s a great tip for moving or uploading multiple files at once, and an alternative to selecting them all by dragging the mouse and boxing them in. Highlight the first file in a group to begin. Then go to the last file you want to highlight in the group and while holding the shift key, double click on it. This should highlight the entire group in between and allow you to move, copy or upload that entire group quickly and easily. If you want to copy a file instead of moving it to another folder, drag it with the right click of your mouse.

F5 is used to refresh a website page if you want to reload it, whether for seeing new changes made or to just refresh a stale webpage. In the same way, to do a “hard refresh” simply hold control while clicking F5. ‘Alt + F4′ closes the current window you are on.

Changing photos from one format to another is simple. If you want to change a file from gif or bmp to jpeg, or vice versa, an easy way is to right click on it, choose ‘open with’, choose paint, then on the top right of paint, under ‘file’ choose ‘save as’, and choose the format you’d like to save it as. Paint is kept in your accessories folder and can be useful to resize and edit photos as well, using the options across the top.

When changing video files from wmv to mp4 or between any other formats, DVD Videosoft could be a useful option. Adding graphics to photos can be easily done with Befunky.com. Add special photo effects such as starbursts, ink, text, shapes and speech bubbles.

Keep checking my blog and website for tips, tools and advice for making your online experience more productive. I offer custom CMS website design and SEO services for small businesses worldwide.

Review these article writing tips to help you write more to promote your business. Writing often increases your probability of your website being discovered by those interested in your business niche. Writing articles is a great way to get your company indexed in search engines, and an excellent way to get inbound links to your website.

I suggest writing about subjects that interest you or at which you are an expert. Your article will be more believable if you portray your views from a level of passion or expertise.

Clearly state what the article is about in the first paragraph and organize your material by the points you want to cover. An article should have a smooth flow from one point to the next.

Keep your topics based on topical information that is current and therefore more interesting for your readers. Constantly brainstorm topics, research new article ideas and make a list of subjects to cover.

Spend plenty of time researching for your articles before you write them. When your articles provide useful information, your readers may be more likely to follow your link in the resource box, back to your website.

Write in terms that are easy to understand and comfortable for your readers, because flowery language isn’t necessary to impress them. Write like you talk, so your article will be easy to understand and more appreciated by your audience.

Write in short paragraphs or list items so your readers can scan them. Keep in mind that most people do not read an entire article word for word. Short paragraphs or lists make it easier for your reader to scan what interests them.

Tell how you faced a problem and how you solved it. Give concrete examples and personal experiences to back up your points. Your readers will be able to embrace the information you provide when presented with tangible evidence of your good work.

Submitting your articles to article publishing websites is a good way to gain more inbound links to your site. Check your inbound links to see how many you have already. Then write some articles and submit your website to some free directories. Wait a couple weeks and your inbound links should have increased significantly.

Consider these article writing tips and produce an article to promote your business. When you write more often, you increase your chances of being indexed by search engines. Gain more backlinks to your website, and give your business the exposure it needs to be successful.

The new iPhone 4G released earlier this month promises to be an excellent upgrade from the iPhone 3GS released a year ago. The iPhone 4G comes in a 16GB model for about $199 and a 32GB model at about $299 in black or white. The iPhone 3G no longer will be manufactured and the iPhone 3GS will now sell around $99.

Loaded with awesome new features like video chat, multi-tasking and extreme downloading, the 4G is thinner, under a centimeter thick, has multitasking capabilities, true GPS, an extended battery life, new wallpaper options and an iChat 5 megapixel camera on the front for video chat.

When viewing websites on these future devices being invented, content may display differently than desired. With the website design methods applied by CodeRepair, you can be assured your website will display properly today as well as on future devices yet to come.

Have a look at the video about the new Dell Streak.

When you stand out over your competition, getting customers can be easier than if you remain just one in a crowd. Forming a business niche helps separate you from others in your industry, so provide examples of what separates you from others in your same business.

When advertising your company, whether in print ads or in a website design, mention how your business will help the customer like none other. Talk about why someone should come to you rather than the competition, what goods or services you offer, who your target audience is, and what your unique position is in your market. By showing potential customers the advantages to utilize your company over others, a “a call to action” is conceived for those who encounter your advertising.

Form your business niche by giving your customer reasons to choose your company, pointing out what you do that others do not. By projecting a positive business image, knowing the importance of market branding and using advertising to attract customers, you may find that your business stands out over your competition.

I can show you how to obtain a winning website and use website advertising to attract customers for your business. Contact me by phone or email today for details.