At one time I thought posters were a thing of my past: as a child, posters of the latest cartoons and movies adorned my walls; and as a teenager, posters consisted of boy bands and other heart throbs. But now, as an adult, and more specifically as a parent, I’m finding that posters can be just as important as ever.
Take, for instance, my 6 year old son’s involvement in Boy Scouts. He is autistic, and his troop is for special-needs children. But such a troop is pretty much unheard of, especially in our small town. So, we’ve been printing posters and putting together flyers to distribute around the community, in the hopes of finding more members for the troop.
Then there’s my 8 year old daughter, and her love of organization, and also of doing community-oriented things, such as holding a yard sale. We plan on holding a yard sale once the weather gets warmer, but obviously we’ll need to look into poster printing in order to advertise the yard sale.
The easiest way to obtain posters for a low cost and at our convenience is to have them printed online. The nice thing about getting posters printed online is that our responsibilities begin and end with providing the content for the posters. Once the content is created, proofread, finalized, and uploaded to the poster template, all that’s left to do is confirm our options for posters (dimensions, paper finish, paper color, and of course how many we’ll need), pay for the order, and then wait for the order to be printed and sent to us. Visit the site here for more on poster printing. You can check out some of their sample posters and testimonials for ideas and inspiration for your own posters.
I have been working from home for a little over six years now, and in that time my work area has evolved from using a laptop in our recliner to using a work desk in the corner of our living room to having a full-fledged corner-style computer desk tower in our bedroom, complete with dry-erase and cork boards, letter trays and mail sorting trays, and most recently (an early January addition), a 3-drawer stand right next to my desk. But while all of these organizational tools are great, the single most important thing, aside from a paycheck, that keeps me at my desk for hours on end each day, almost every single day, is a comfortable office chair. I spent some time research office chairs, and found many office chairs cheap, and office chairs for sale, but what was most important to me in chair selection is that the office chair be comfortable and supportive.
My must-haves for an office chair are: padding, yet firmness especially in the back area, lumbar support, back-of-neck support (I go for office chairs with the high backs), and arm rests. In many instances you can find candidates to meet these needs in many office chairs for sale ads, but you’ll want to look beyond the latest sales and promotions to make sure that you’ve gotten a look at everything that there is to offer.
Shopping for office chairs online is a great past time, especially on the weekends or during inclement weather; and it’s a great way to familiarize yourself with the different types of office chairs available. In addition to backed and backless, armed and armless, you’ll find that office chairs are available in numerous colors and styles, with certain ones available to meet certain needs. Check it out at chairhero.com.
So if you use MSN/Windows Live Messenger, you’re probably aware of the merging of Windows Live Messenger and Skype. Since I’ve already been using Skype for the past couple of years, it wasn’t a big deal to do away with Windows Live Messenger and merge everything into Skype. What is a big deal, however, is the seemingly impossible task of blocking Windows Live Messenger contacts on Skype. If the contact in question is a Skype one, then you can block them by right-clicking on their name (in the Contacts list) and selecting Block This Person. But if the contact is a Windows Live Messenger one, there is no such option.
After poking around within the Skype interface, and even logging into my Windows Live account online, there seems to be no option whatsoever to manage/delete/block Windows Live Messenger, except to go and download Windows Live Messenger (I found a copy here), sign in, and then block the contact from within the Windows Live Messenger interface.
True story: a client has sent me their FTP login information, but no WordPress login information. What do you do in this case, especially if it’s after hours, or the client has forgotten their WordPress login information and can’t access the email address associated with it? Simple: you create a new user via FTP!
To add a new user to a WordPress installation via FTP, add the following to the blog’s active theme’s functions.php file, save the file, refresh the blog, then go to the login page and login:
function admin_account(){
$user = ‘NEW_ADMIN_USERNAME_HERE’;
$pass = ‘NEW_ADMIN_PASSWORD_HERE’;
$email = ‘email@domain.com’;
if ( !username_exists( $user ) && !email_exists( $email ) ) {
$user_id = wp_create_user( $user, $pass, $email );
$user = new WP_User( $user_id );
$user->set_role( ‘administrator’ );
} }
add_action(‘init’,'admin_account’);
This handy snippet of code has saved my ass more than once. 
Title loans aren’t the ideal option, but they can certainly be a blessing for someone who finds themselves in dire, urgent financial straits, and without any alternatives (such as taking money from savings, taking out a traditional loan, or borrowing money from a friend). Title loans, or any type of loan for that matter, should only be considered and applied for only in the event of having no other alternative and being unable to wait for your next payday.
Examples of what a title loan can help out with:
- Legal matters (fines, penalties)
- Medical bills (emergency dental extraction)
- Urgent bills
- Car repairs (flat tire, blown transmission)
For Title Loans in West Palm Beach, check out RALoan.com. RALoan.com is the website for Rapid Auto Loans, where you can utilize the value of your vehicle to take out a loan. The lender will hold onto your vehicle’s original car title in exchange for loaning you the money you need, and so long as you pay the loan back in full, your title will be returned to you with no questions asked.
For mrore information, and to apply online, visit RALoan.com.
- You tweet too much. Forget over-sharing: you’re clogging up the Twitter streams! Whether you’re over-sharing, over-promoting, or over retweeting, the result is that you’re posting too much, too often, and so you’re being unfollowed because you’re drowning other Twitter users out.
- You tweet too little. Ideally Twitter users should update their Twitter accounts at least once per day – more depending on your online “niche” and social media savviness. If you’re only updating once a week or less, or even once a month or less, then that right there is a good reason why you might be unfollowed.
- You’re obnoxious. You’re aggressive, passive-aggressive, whiny, rude — or a combination of all of the above.
- Because you’re you. Sometimes there’s no rhyme or reason as to why you’re unfollowed. It just happens.
As technologically advanced and “digital” we are, it’s amazing how much we still rely on our printers: for printing coupons, printing rebate forms, printing special cash or store credit offers from stores (Petco, for example, emails me a $5 certificate every time I spend $100 in their store), and for bloggers like me, for printing forms we sign when setting up review/giveaway campaigns with companies. Fortunately, there are some little things you can do to save on the cost of printer ink, and the paper associated with it: use digital coupons whenever possible, ask about e-signing a document, or even invest in a graphic pen tablet (a basic one will run you around $75) so that you can sign documents right on your screen in supported programs (Adobe Acrobat is one).
Another consideration? Reduce the cost of ink itself! Rather than buying new ink cartridges every time you run out of one or more colors, choose to refill ink cartridges instead. Refilled ink cartridges work just as well as brand new cartridges, even if you use a third party brand of ink in place of the branded ink that is recommended for your particular printer. At worst, your printer may tell you that it cannot “verify” the “authenticity” of the refilled ink cartridge, which is just a way of scaring consumers into buying the pricey brand-name stuff. I personally have used plenty of refilled and refillable ink cartridges from several third party companies, and have had no problems with print quality or the durability of the ink.
At InkCartridges.org, you can find a lot of information on refillable ink cartridges for your printer – plus a lot of great printer maintenance tips.
Over the last couple of months, I’ve noticed a significant increase in the amount of spam my blogs have been receiving. The two worst-hit blogs were In My Bag and Jenn.nu, with each blog getting hit with close to one hundred new spam comments per day.
Deleting comments marked as spam is easy enough, at least in WordPress. But taking a quick run through them to make sure no legitimate comments were accidentally marked as spam? Not so easy.
The solution? CAPTCHA. This plugin integrates seamlessly with most WordPress themes (provided that your theme’s comments.php file has the php do_action(‘comment_form’, $post->ID); call within it – if not, this call is easy to add), and adds a CAPTCHA (spam protection) field to your choice of any (or all) of the following forms: commment, register, login, and lost password. The CAPTCHA form itself prompts the user to answer a math question. Tweak settings to specify if the CAPTCHA uses numbers or words for the numbers (two instead of 2, for example), and if all mathematical operations (add, subtract, multiple, divide) are used, or just one or two.
This plugin is working perfectly on all seven of my blogs, and about twenty other blogs that I installed it on. And since implementing it, spam has dropped significantly – I’d say less than 5 per blog per day are getting through!
Merry belated Christmas! I intended on popping on here on the 25th to say Merry Christmas, but, well, in addition to being a full-time blogger, I also work full-time, but more importantly, I have a family (husband, two children). So on Christmas, family came first. ♥
Anyway! Christmas brought me some nice things this year: lotions and perfume from Victoria’s Secret and Viva La Juicy, a pair of black leather boots, a Nook SimpleTouch GlowLight from my friend Jason, a hot pink leather cover/case (portfolio-style) for said Nook SimpleTouch GlowLight, an actual book from my brother-in-law, a $25 Cheesecake Factory gift card from my sister-in-law, a homemade wristlet and some candies from my aunt-in-law and another sister-in-law, and $25 cash from another aunt-in-law.
On the blogging end of things, Christmas shall be coming this coming week and the next. I’m expecting a pillow, a Windows 8X phone, some adult toys, some coupons for food items, and… what am I missing? Oh yeah: two Garmin GPS systems (one to keep, and one to give away).
So, that was my Christmas. How was yours? 
WordPress 3.5, code name “Elvin”, is now available for download. This release of WordPress is mostly about improvements to the administrative interface of WordPress, most notably with the media section of things. The upload/management for media has gotten a serious and beautiful overhaul, so you’ll definitely want to check that out!
Visit WordPress.org/download to get your copy of WordPress 3.5. As always, backup your database and files when upgrading, since you never know when there might be a hiccup.
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