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Two days we should not worry about..

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There are two days in every week, about which we should not worry,
two days which should be kept free from fear and apprehension.
One of these days is Yesterday with all its mistakes and cares,
its faults and blunders, its aches and pains.Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control.
All the money in the world cannot bring back Yesterday.
We cannot undo a single act we performed;
we cannot erase a single word we said.
Yesterday is gone forever.

The other day we should not worry about is Tomorrow
with all its possible adversities, its burdens,
its large promise and its poor performance;
Tomorrow is also beyond our immediate control.

Tomorrow’s sun will rise,
either in splendour or behind a mask of clouds, but it will rise.
Until it does, we have no stake in Tomorrow,
for it is yet to be born.

This leaves only one day, Today.
Any person can fight the battle of just one day.
It is when you and I add the burdens of those two awful eternities
Yesterday and Tomorrow that we break down.

It is not the experience of Today that drives a person mad,
it is the remorse or bitterness of something which happened Yesterday
and the dread of what Tomorrow may bring.
Let us, therefore, live but one day at a time.

ENJOY YOUR DAY TODAY… 🙂 x

Create Your Own Graphics With Powerpoint

For a lot of your graphic design needs, you can use Powerpoint. I also really like Canva and PicMonkey.

If you need a more powerful graphic design software, the obvious choice is Adobe Photoshop.
However, you can get more powerful free software that is nearly/arguably as good as Photoshop – in particular – Gimp.
Another pretty powerful tool that is online based is Pixlr.

Anyway, here’s some helpful video’s for you if you want to use Powerpoint for your graphics…

Some more useful tips for nice looking graphics on your website/blog etc.

Powerpoint 2013

Powerpoint 2010

Powerpoint 2007

When is the last time you looked for a business in the Yellow Pages?

Can you even remember? I can’t… when they arrive they go straight into our recycling box 🙁 Not good I know – all that wasted paper and print, even worse all that money that the businesses spent to advertise in it! – but it is a fact all the same.

If you are a small business you really do NEED a web presence… remember you are not competing with the whole world on google… just other local businesses… and a lot of them haven’t got a web presence!!!

Watch this video if you need convincing….

How To Select All Friends On Facebook

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It can be frustrating when using Facebook to not have the option to select all friends at once, if you have thousands of friends it is very tedious and time consuming to select them all individually.

I have seen several snippets of Javascript code that some have used to perform this task, but none of these have worked for me, I have tried them on different computers with different browsers but have had no success with any of them unfortunately.

There is a Google Chrome extension available to solve this problem, but it does not appear to be 100% stable.  It works for me on one of my computers, not on the other?  I can see looking at the Google Chrome extension page that others are posting reviews and writing of the problems they are having.

I have used this extension successfully to suggest my fan page to all my friends, and also to invite all my friends to an event created from my fan page.  If I create an event from my personal profile however, it is not available.  The new groups feature of facebook only allows you to add people one at a time by starting to type a friends name.  I also tried this within one of my installed apps, Lexulous and is not available for that either.

Below I outline the steps you need to take to use this Google Chrome extension:

  • Install the Google Chrome web browser if you haven’t already got it on your computer.
  • Click on the picture below to go to the Facebook Invite All extension (by dawagner) – opens in a new window – Click Install to install the extension

Invite All Extension

  • When the extension has been installed, you are ready to use it.  If you would like to try it out go to my fan page here (shameless plug), click like and go to the wall tab.  Under my avatar on the left you will see the suggest to friends link.
  • I find that it takes a long time for all my friends to be loaded into the window.  You will see a ‘Toggle All’ option when you are in the Select Friends window, clicking on this will select all friends that haven’t been invited before (a useful feature).  Remember to add a personal message before you click send… and when you do click send – be aware that this takes so long I honestly thought my computer had crashed – but the invites were indeed sent, eventually.

Select Friends Window

N.B. It is worth thinking about the fact that Facebook don’t offer a solution to this themselves – maybe they consider mass invitations being sent out as being a means to be able to spam people…

If you decide to try it, or indeed if you have another solution – please leave me your comments to let me know how you got on 🙂

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