http://stancraigie.com Musings about life in general and my attempts to start an Internet Business in the area of graphics Sun, 14 Dec 2008 06:14:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am a bit slack as far as far as posting on this blog goes.  That also goes for checking out other peoples blogs and forums all of which I should do to keep my finger on the pulse. I do have a good excuse though, I spend most of my ... http://stancraigie.com/the-death-of-info-products/ Now that I've used Gimp 2.6 a little here's my first dislike. By default all the 'Utility' windows, what was the Toolbox, layers and Brushes,Patterns etc dialogues, are on top by default. So any image window that is larger than the gap between them is behind these dialogues ergo you don't ... http://stancraigie.com/more-on-gimp-26/ OK, it's taken me a while to get around to looking at the new Gimp and my first impression was disappointment! The Toolbox menu has gone and with it the Xtns menu! It took me a little while but I've found the inhabitants of the X'd Xtns menu and File menu. 'Buttons', ... http://stancraigie.com/gimp-26-a-backward-step/ Free? Can't be any good then! Wrong! The quality, availability and range of free open source software for windows is excellent and rivals, if not betters some commercial software. So what kind of software is available? Just about anything you can think of. I don't intend to list all that's available because it ... http://stancraigie.com/free-open-source-software-for-windows/ Not so long ago people were complaining about how they got too much email and how it distracted them from getting on with the things they needed to do. Join a few lists, as we all must do and you inevitably get bombarded with lotsa emails. Some of the people who were ... http://stancraigie.com/blog-posts-and-videos-bee-in-my-bonnet/ Unless you're one of those rare lucky souls that just seem to have everything fall in their lap. Like winning the lottery, picking the right horse, shares or whatever. Then most things in life require considerable effort to get. Years ago I came across a quotation which really struck a chord ... http://stancraigie.com/things-dont-come-easy/ To quote 'someone' famous I've done it again! Neglected my blog that is! What with the problem with my neck and shoulder and other stuff, namely life, the time has just flown by. The problem with my neck and shoulder is improving though, thanks for asking. So, to get back to ... http://stancraigie.com/44/ What is a virus? The word comes from latin where it meant slime or poisonous liquid! I feel sick already! We know it as a sickness where people are concerned or a really annoying and sometimes worse, disruption of computers that spreads like wildfire. It's that aspect of a virus that's been turned ... http://stancraigie.com/when-can-a-virus-be-your-best-friend/ That's it the Nickel Sale is over. The Graphics Videos at gimpvideos.com are now at their normal price of $27. This still represents great value at only $2.25 per video. I know from comments I've received and read on various forums that a lot of people get Gimp, it's free after all ... http://stancraigie.com/gimp-videos-nickel-sale-ends/ This is really disgusting! If this blog was a child I'd be in serious trouble with the law, or 'lure' as Clouseau would say! I have seriously neglected it. I do have an excuse, naturally. A couple of weeks ago I appear to have trapped or as the doctors put ... http://stancraigie.com/blog-neglect/ Wow! What a catastrophe. The Planet data centre suffered an electrical explosion that took out three walls and set the place alight! Luckily no one was hurt. You can found out more about the whole saga below. http://forums.theplanet.com/index.php?showtopic=90185&st=0 Considering the extent of the damage they have done a remarkable job to get ... http://stancraigie.com/graphics-videos-back-on-line/ This had to be the dumbest oversight post ever!! Graphics Videos went live on the 29th May...... I didn't post about it! In mitigation it was quite hectic with a few last minute things to set up but that's really no excuse. And I only just realised it when I did ... http://stancraigie.com/graphics-videos-nickel-sale-live-a-bit-late/ Apparently there is an outage at the data centre in the US and gimpvideos.com has been down for several hours. Unfortunately I don't have any details of the extent of the outage but it must be pretty serious as most datacentres are never out for long. My apologies for this but please ... http://stancraigie.com/graphics-videos-outage/ At long last the graphics videos are ready and about to go live. It's been decided that there'll be a pre-launch in the form of a Nickel sale. If you're not familiar with a Nickel sale the price starts off low and increases by 5 cents for every sale. It's therefore important ... http://stancraigie.com/graphics-videos-going-live/ If you're interested in getting a flood of Private Label Rights products that you can reface quickly and easily to resell as your own, there is a new site you should check out, a site called Viral Marketing Giveaway 11. This resource is completely free so it's a great site for ... http://stancraigie.com/best-site-for-starting-an-online-business/ Excuse the pun, it was intended! It never ceases to amaze me the amount of mis-information that people who regard themselves as experts, spread around the net and forums. It's no wonder that anyone who is trying to get into internet marketing gets confused and unfortunately put off. Maybe that's the aim, ... http://stancraigie.com/does-adsense-make-any-cents-anymore/ In your internet business, what do you think is your most important resource? Is it your autoresponder? Your hosting account? Your JV partners? All very important but I reckon the most important is right in front of you now. Your Computer. Without it you can't do a thing with the rest. Yet ... http://stancraigie.com/your-most-important-resource/ Hey, what's this? I thought we were here to make money not spend it! Well here's the wake up! If you seriously want to build an internet business you are going to have to invest something. That includes, time, effort and I'm afraid money. Now that's not entirely true. Confusing ain't it? Sure is. ... http://stancraigie.com/internet-business-whats-it-going-to-cost/ As you start out in Internet Marketing in your attempt to build a business you will inevitably end up being signed up to a lot of email lists. This is the original double-edged sword! You need to be signed up as you are venturing into a totally new environment. Trust me, ... http://stancraigie.com/internet-marketing-email/ In my previous post I digressed and rambled about my favourite pastime, motor racing. I did compare it to the main focus of this blog which is internet business and my interest in graphics and anything to do with websites. To be successful at anything, motor sport, business or a career ... http://stancraigie.com/change-is-good/