Mind Movie - Make your own

September 7th, 2008

There is a big hoopla going on about mind movies.  It has to do with manifesting what you want in life.  The premise is to watch the movie and put yourself into a “good feeling” place so your vibration stays high.

This goes along with the idea from the movie - ”The Secret.”  Well the person who thought up this idea made a bunch of generic movies to show people what he did to improve his life.  I downloaded and watched them but they don’t really reflect my pictures of what I want so I decided to make my own “mind movie.”

Using the free Windows Movie Maker, I put some pictures together and my kind of music to make the following:





The idea is if you look at your “mind movie” every morning and night, the Universe will start providing you with the opportunities to get it.  Heck it was total fun and a blast to do.Hope you will consider doing one for yourself.

Judith

P.S. I converted the Windows Movie Maker (.wmv file) with my Easy Web Video Software so it would stream nicely in one of their players.


CSS versus WYSIWYG Text Editor

August 29th, 2008

Over my 11 years on the Internet, I’ve learned HTML, CSS,  and SSI.  All acronyns for Hypertext Markup Language, Cascading Style Sheets and Server Side Includes. 

About a year and a half ago, I decided to see what a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) text editor was like.  Well I was enamored.  It could make drop down menus without me having any javascript knowledge, place graphics EZ-ily and anytime I added a page, the editor would update the menus.

I thought I’d died and gone to heaven.  Until…

I saw a site I really liked so I looked at the source code.  To my surprise, the designer had just used HTML and CSS.    Hmmmmmm - this brought back my desire to do some hand coding again.

What I found out, HTML and CSS beats the WYSIWYG text editor hands down.  Why? More » » » »


Cruise to Alaska — What fun!

August 11th, 2008

On July 20th, I set sail from Seattle to Alaska on Holland’s Westerdam.  It was my first cruise and I was totally impressed with the ship and it’s crew.  

I ate New York Steak almost every night and it was so tender, it almost melted in my mouth.  There is food service 24/7, two swimming pools and tons of stuff to do for Adults.

Was I thrilled with Alaska?  Not so much.  Why?  More » » » »


Convert Movie to Flash with V2F Software

July 6th, 2008

If you want to put Video on your site, you’ll never find an EZ-ier way than with Easy Web Video.

When looking around my site, you’ll see flash videos I was able to put up in a New York minute.   This software will take your videos and EZ-ily convert them to a flash file to put on your web site.

The reason you want a flash file is because most ISP providers (your hosting company) can’t stream Videos and it’s what’s made You Tube so popular.  Now you don’t have to rely on another site being up or down.  

Another benefit, this software has different colored players and one of them should match your site’s design.  

Look at this video which shows you just how easy it is to use V2F – I have included the redirect link to open a new window.  If you have a browser that blocks this, you won’t see how neat this works.


I am so impressed with this software, I simply wanted you to see it too!

Judith
Making the Complicated Simple

P.S. Yes it opens to Easy Web Video and yes it’s an affliliate link. I’m not stupid (LOL).


eBook Template Video

June 28th, 2008

One of my products is how to make ebooks EZ-ily so I designed 177  ebook templates that would save writers time.  This time can be used to do more fun things with your family or write even more ebooks to sell on the Internet.

To show you how EZ it is to use the templates I created, I made the following video:



This was also a test to see if I could put a flash player in this blog and have it work without resorting to using You Tube.Judith
Making the Complicated Simple!

P.S. The Video Flash Player I use is called Easy Web Video and you can click on the box at the right to visit their page to see if you can use it on your site. It took me a New York minute to make my Videos into Flash so they could stream on my site. I used to use YouTube for streaming but no more! I love I have a choice of players and the owner of the software is always adding additional players. Plus, if I had wanted to, the video could have taken you to a different URL.


EBooks are fine but sometimes you’ve got to play!

June 24th, 2008

Constantly making ebook products, marketing and doing what’s necessary to keep your business running smoothly is fine and good but sometimes you’ve just got to play. 

And I found a wonderful new art program to play with.  It’s $25 for the download version and I do believe ArtRage is one of the best art programs on the market today.

I have at least 4 or 5 on my computer because art is my second muse.  So yesterday, I decided to see what I could paint in an less than an hour.  What this did was release I block I had about painting my beloved Pepper.  She passed 2 years ago and I’ve been wanting to paint her for my Mother.  She and Pepper were extremely close and she even referred to Pepper as her Grandchild (smile).

So do yourself a favor and do something creative when you’re feeling a tad bit burned out with your day to day life. I did and now I can enjoy getting back to business!Who knows you might even paint a picture for an ebook cover of yours.Judith
Making the Complicated Simple!

P.S.  You can learn more about ArtRage 2.5 here:

http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html (not an affiliate link).

P.P.S.  The program will even rescale your painting to whatever size you want.  My original is 11 X 14 set to 300 dpi.  But for the web, I rescaled and compressed to 72 dpi.  That’s why the paint strokes look a little different from my original.    Oh well, it gives you an idea of what this marvelous program can do.