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One thing you’ll hear many people complaining about when they talk about desktop publishing software is how difficult it is to use. InDesign has simply too many features for people with average design needs - and that’s a huge market of people waiting for the perfect desktop publishing software for OSX. Swift Publisher was designed for one reason - to help you layout pages easier on your Mac.

Swift Publisher is an award winning Macintosh page layout program that will help you design and create flyers, newsletters, brochures, letterheads, booklets, etc. The program comes with 100s of images and designs that you can customize so that you can get started quickly. Swift Publisher is a dream layout program for many reasons. it works flawlessly, it’s super intuitive and simple to use, and always gives you professional looking results. The best thing about Swift Publisher is it doesn’t cost nearly as much as some of the other layout applications on the market.

I suggest you try Swift Publisher if you need an inexpensive desktop publishing program that offers advanced page layout without the advanced learning curve.

Two oysters were hanging out during boys night out and one of them made a loud noise. One oyster said to the other, “excuse me boys, but that loud noise, annoys me”, said Roy the oyster. “I’m a delicacy and am a low calorie protein so you can be sure that I won’t annoy your diet.” Oysters are also a good source of zinc, Vitamin B-12. On the flipside you have to be very careful when you eat oysters. BeOysterAware exists to inform people about the risks of eating oysters or Gulf oysters. They offer a wealth of information on their website and even an educational video that talk about the reasons some people can’t eat raw oysters. If you think you may be one of them, please visit BeOysterAware.com and become oyster aware yourself!

I’m on a train right now headed to San Diego to visit some family. Of course I overheard a man talking about his company and the fact that he was having a blog designed, but didn’t really now how it could benefit his business. Here is a small list of why businesses should be blogging:

• Blogs are the cheapest marketing on the planet
• …and the most far reaching. Take your business global for dirt cheap
• More traffic
• More repeat traffic
• Find new markets – blogs have the longest tails on the planet
• Google will love you
• Create dialog with your clients, between your clients
• Find hidden opportunities – see find new markets above
• Become an authority in your industry
• Blogging/writing about your business forces you to think about your business, target market, strategy, how to communicate on a global scale, branding, etc.
• Your articles and web pages can be emailed, bookmarked and passed around the net
• Adds a face and personality to the business
• Make your compnay live and breath on the internet
• Brand yourself/company
• Show your photos/music/art/products
• Share your company philosophy
• Challenges you to find news about your industry so that you can blog about something
• Blogging is just starting to catch on in the corporate world so you are actually ahead of the curve
• Take advantage of virtual word of mouth marketing
• It's easy

Let me know your thoughts.

So you need a website for your business and don’t know where to turn? Many design and hosting companies will help you with a web presence, but most of them won’t help you attract visitors. After all a pretty website with no traffic will not make you any money. 1WebImage.com is in the business of creating, hosting and maintaining websites. But they don’t stop there, they will also offer promotion and optimization solutions for your website. 1WebImage.com will help you reach your target audience and will help you turn your visitors into customers.

Also 1WebImage.com is very unique in that they don’t just slap up a template website, they work with customers to build them a custom web presence by offering 2 conceptual designs and and 3 rounds of revisions so that you can be sure you get the exact website you payed for. I highly recommend 1WebImage.com if you are looking for a complete web solution package. Click here for more information

Like most bloggers that make money, I started out as a hobby blogger and my blog slowly and gradually became a full-time moneymaker, part-time gig for me. One thing that has surely contributed to my success is the tools I use. I thought it would be helpful to share with you some of the blogging tools I use on a daily basis. These are programs I could not live without:

iGoogle

Ok this isn’t OSX, but it IS browser based and it works in Safari. In the last few months I’ve used iGoogle more and more to help me; manage my RSS subscriptions with Google Reader, keep quick notes with Google Notebook, learn more about my websites with Google Webmaster Tools, check my traffic with Google Analytics, and manage my AdSense accounts. I like working this way because I use several different computers to blog, plus my iPhone, and it is impossible to try and keep everything synced up. With iGoogle I can simply login to my account from any computer and have all of the above mentioned tools at my fingertips.

Blogging

I like the WordPress admin panel, although sometimes it feels a bit cumbersome. Also, because I post to multiple blogs, I needed a program that allowed me to switch between accounts quickly. When you don’t need to access the WordPress admin panel to add plugins, change options, add users, moderate comments, etc., try using Ecto. I guarantee you won’t be able to live without it.

ImageWell

ImageWell is the quickest and easiest way to resize and upload images. I like to add images to my articles and I use ImageWell on a daily basis to help save me time and headaches. Simply drag and drop images from your browser or hard drive to ImageWell’s image area. From here you can can resize, change the quality, rename and upload your file. Double-clicking the image will open ImageWell’s streamlined image editor where you can crop, rotate, control brightness, etc. Set the program’s FTP preferences so you can upload an image straight to your blog’s image folder with one click. ImageWell is one of my all time favorite OSX blogging tools because it saves me from opening Photoshop and an ftp client for every little photo edit and upload.

Cyberduck

When I first started as a web designer I used notepad and Photoshop to create my websites. I soon moved on to Dreamweaver version 1. I liked the coding/wysiwyg dual view pages and the built in FTP functionality of Dreamweaver. For the last 10 years I got in the habit of always using Dreamweaver to access all of my FTP accounts. Sometime last year I decided to streamline my work flow and find the simplest OSX FTP software I could find.

Cyberduck is the best FTP program I have ever used. It’s lightening fast, stable, reliable, and FREE. It also has support for many Mac OS X system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour, the Keychain and AppleScript.

Hands down paintball is one of the most fun activities I’ve ever participate in, especially when you use quality paintball guns and equipment. Pntball.com sells paintball packages that are top notch and will save you tons of money so you can enjoy this super fun sport. Their paintball packages include everything you need including: gun, helmet, ball feed, gun oil, manual and more. On their website you will find all the top paintball gear brands like Spyder, Tippmann, Dye, Draxxus and many more. The reason I like Pntball.com is because they have a huge selection of paintball guns and accessories, their prices can’t be beat and their shipping is FREE. Happy paintballing!

So how do you feel about mobile marketing. I’m starting to receive messages on my phone from companies and I’m not sure If I’m too happy about it. The article talks about how many large companies are using mobile phones to market to people and that three quarters (73%) of brands answered that up to 10% of recipients subsequently undertook a financial action as a result of the marketing campaign. Personally I don’t like receiving any marketing or advertising unless I opt in for it. Although if a company uses premium sms services such as stock quotes, weather forecasts, etc. and then eases in a bit of advertising I don’t really mind it. Basically if a company provides me a useful service that I end up frequently using and then has adds next to or embedded in the content, I don’t really mind it… Most of us understand that the big brands need to make money but If they send me something without having offered me anything useful I usually just ignore it.

The following article talks about how some big brands aren’t comfortable with using cell phones to market to people because they see it as too intrusive and that customers perceive the messages as spam. But as I said before, if a company offers something for free and then advertises along side it or embeds an add like YouTube does, you can’t help but think to yourself, “I’m using this service for FREE so I don’t mind the company taking 15 seconds out of my time to market their product to me. After all I might like what they have to offer.”

What do you think?

iSlayer makes the coolest widgets around. Everyone one of their creations is an Apple staff favorite and they have a total of almost 7 millions widgets downloaded. I especially like their iStat Pro widget. iStat Pro is the ultimate system monitoring widget, consisting of nine sections which can be shown or hidden.

It features highly detailed information on CPUs (up to 8 cores), memory, hard drives, IP and external IP, bandwidth, battery, wireless keyboard and mouse battery, uptime, temperatures, and fans. You’ll know exactly what’s going on inside your Mac!

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Let’s face it, we’re all getting older. Some of use are lucky enough to have lots of support from our friends or we have big families that’ll take care of us in our later years. But many of us aren’t fortunate enough to have a support system we can fall back on… even if you do you should be proactive and educate yourself so that you are better prepared. Bettercaring is an indispensable resource for anyone seeking or researching care solutions for themselves or loved ones in the UK. They also have a really great forum with lots of community members so you have the opportunity to talk with other users with similar concerns.

BetterCaring.com has a handy care home search that will enable you to search their database of all registered UK care homes.