March 18, 2010

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March 18, 2010 – I’m totally a freeware junkie

March 18, 2010 – I believe this

March 18, 2010

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March 18, 2010 – Things are heating up #smartphonewars

March 17, 2010 – You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.

March 17, 2010 – .

March 18, 2010

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March 17, 2010 – Good tips

March 16, 2010

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March 16, 2010

March 16, 2010 – Been thinking about it. The only thing that makes me rethink that is that with the Blackberry Messenger, I can talk to my family in Panama for free.

March 15, 2010

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March 12, 2010 – Most people would rather die than think: many do.

March 11, 2010

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March 11, 2010 – If he plagiarized anything, it was the French movie “The Bride Wore Black”

March 11, 2010

March 11, 2010 – oohhhhh

March 11, 2010 – Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity

March 10, 2010

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March 10, 2010 – Genius, when young, is divine.

March 10, 2010 – tumor?

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When Google Chrome came out in 2008, I installed it on my Windows laptop, and I instantly was a believer. The front page, which shows all of your most-visited web sites was spectacular. It was quick to bring up compared to the other browsers. Last but not least, it was created using WebKit, which is what Safari, my favorite Macbook browser, was developed using. However, I couldn’t use it 100% because of two reasons: 1. Not all sites support it and 2. It had no extensions. This all changed last year when Google Chrome began supporting extensions. If you haven’t been able to install any, then you probably need to upgrade to the newest Google Chrome. The way you will know this is that the Install button on the extension page is grayed out.

This is a four-part blog series of the 20 Google Chrome extensions that you will find useful if you are a Freelance Writer.  Here are the first five Google Chrome extensions.

1. Feedly

Freelance Writers should constantly be reading the latest news and blogs.  This is a great way for getting story (or blog) ideas.  Feedly is an app that makes catching up with your feeds easy.  After installing Feedly, you should see the icon next to your Chrome’s address bar.

They recently added a way for you to know how many feeds you need to read. If you haven’t checked out Feedly, you need to. It has a way for your to share it throughout all the social networking sites (e.g. Twitter, Google Buzz, Facebook, etc.), so you are able to quickly show all of your friends.

2. Google Mail Checker Plus

Google Mail Checker Plus allows you to check your Gmail inbox.  The reason that I chose this one over the others is that it’s the only one that allows you to preview your unread email. Additionally, it has a lot of options that you can modify to fit your needs.  You can even change the icon, if you choose to.

After making the modifications that you want, any time you have an unread message, the icon will start shaking. It’s great for people who get so wrapped up in their work (me) that the only way to get their attention is to flash something over their face.

3. Evernote

When you are browsing the internet, you need to have something that will save all the clips that you collect.  This is where Evernote comes in.  It can capture anything that you want in a contained place.  This Google Chrome extension is great because you can quickly click the Evernote icon next to the address bar, and what you wanted to clip is quickly saved.

4. Aviary Web Capture

There are times when you will need to capture screenshots of certain sites.  Aviary is already a wonderful app in itself.  I wrote about it in “Aviary, a Web Alternative to Adobe Creative Suite“.  They now have a Google Chrome extension to help you capture screenshots of things you see around the webosphere.  After you press the Aviary icon, click the Capture Visible Portion of Page link.

It will open up a new window that will show what you captured. Like Fireworks and Photoshop, you are able to modify your capture by cropping, resizing, adding text, shapes, etc.

5. AddThis – Bookmark, Email, Share, Translate

AddThis allows you to share any content with over 200 social networking sites.  The ones you can access from the Google Chrome extension are the most popular ones.  If you click the More link, you will be able to access the rest.  If you are a social media lover, then you need to install this app.

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We all hear the reports and media coverage about how the economy is not doing very well.  Additionally, last week, there were discussions that the unemployment rate has dipped down to 10.1%.  This is due to companies and organizations not being able to keep their in-house staff because of not business not running to the full speed that it had before the economy got worse.

Even though you have to unfortunately reduce your work staff, it doesn’t mean that you do not have to provide the same amount of work as before.  One of those areas are your documentation.  Documentation is usually vital in many industry-best practices processes, such as CMMI, ISO9001, and SDLC.  Therefore, you still have to ensure that you have the same quality of work that you had before you had to let go or your writing experts.

One way to resolve this is by hiring a Freelance Writer to handle this for you.  How do you do this? I’m in the middle of interviewing a few contractors for some home improvement projects, so I know how stressful and tedious it can be. You do not know their work, and you don’t get the chance to really know them, like you would someone who is working for you on a full-time basis. However, let me just say that usually, the good outweighs the bad.

Reasons for Hiring a Freelance Writer

1. Save money by saving time – If you have ever read “The 4-Hour Workweek,” one of the things that Tim Ferriss says is that people tend to think that what a consultant is charging is ridiculous. However, take a step back and really think about it. You are now free to handle tasks that are more up your alley, while a writer, who is an expert on that kind of service, can work on documentation.  Also, you aren’t paying this person benefits, so that is another way that you are saving.  Additionally, instead of it taking you twice as long, and not be the same quality, to write a document, you can hire someone who will save you time and money.  I can’t imagine trying to work some DYI projects.  It would take me double or even three times as long as a professional, and so I would actually have to spend more money and time than just outsourcing.
2. Good quality work that you could not have done yourself – Writers, who have been doing this for longer than five years, know what they are doing.They will provide you top-rated work that you would have probably done a shoddy job doing it yourself. I don’t know how to put tile down, so why even try?  To save money?  I will probably need to spend money on fixing the work that I did.  Therefore, I’d rather pay someone to do it right the first time.  Can you imagine trying to do something you are not an expert in perfectly the first time, and not have to keep redoing it? Hiring a freelance writer will the best bet for creating documentation that will aid your project and your team.
3. They want you to hire them when you have a next project, so usually they will do the job right – Freelancers will work twice as hard as in-house employees because they want your repeat business. If they are smart, and usually they are, they will do such an amazing job the first time that you will want to hire them again. Do not forget about how important Word-of-Mouth Marketing is. This is something that freelancers know.

If you have tons of proposals or technical documentation to write, and your in-house employees are already up to their noses with work, hire a Freelance Writer. If you just need someone to ensure that you are on the right track, there are writing consultants, like me, that will gladly help you in anything that you need.

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• Dust Bunnies Tainted with Toxins?

March 5, 2010 – Uh oh! No one tell Miyazaki

• Innovation in healthcare IT is dead (hopefully only temporarily)

March 4, 2010

• Women Dominate Social Media: Both Mobile And Desktop BUT…

March 5, 2010 – Women still rule!

• RFK's Bloody Clothes Removed From Vegas Display

March 5, 2010

• Earliest Examples Of Writing Found On Eggshells

March 5, 2010

• School Uses Classical Music To Punish Students

March 5, 2010 – That is ridiculous. To use something as beautiful as classical music to punish children. What a great way to teach children to enjoy a wide variety of music. Glad my parents taught me the beauty of it, and I am teaching it to my own.

• U.S. Adding Body Scanners at 11 Airports, Napolitano Says

March 5, 2010 – Surprised Dulles is not on the list

• How Librarians Can Save The World

March 5, 2010

• Literary feasts for children

March 5, 2010 – For me, it has to be “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” You?

• Would You Wear This Smoochy T-Shirt?

March 5, 2010 – No

• Find Out What Other Tweeters Think of You with ViewsOnYou

March 5, 2010 – Why am I thinking of doing this?

• Mean Disney Girls Is a Mash-Up Masterpiece

March 5, 2010 – Ha! Hilarious Video

• Mac Developer License Drops To $99 A Year

March 5, 2010 – Wow, $99 from $499….that’s pretty nice

• Are Open Source Apps Always Better?

March 5, 2010 – Yes, usually open source apps are better.

• Dorothee Golz – Digital imagery.

March 5, 2010 – These are really amazing. To take renaissance paintings and make them modern? That is creativity at its best

• This Is Why that Amazing NASA Earth Image Looked So Familiar [IPhone]

March 5, 2010

• Uganda floods displace 20,000, slow victim search
  (AP)

March 4, 2010

• Can Injecting Your Blood Into Your Face Make You Look Younger?

March 4, 2010

• Humor is just another defense against the universe. ~~~ Mel Brooks

March 4, 2010

• 4 Tips to Keep Your Feeds Safe(r) from Copying

March 4, 2010

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• 5 Lesser-Known Sources for Free, Legal Content

February 25, 2010

• 7 Must Read Success Lessons from Donald Trump

February 26, 2010

• How to Gain Access to Your Hacked Email Account

February 26, 2010 – Glad I finally researched this. I’ve had plenty of issues with this in the past. Has anyone ever had their email hacked into?

• Abduction hoax mom won’t be released as scheduled – Washington Post

February 25, 2010 – People like that should be arrested and seriously fined

• Fruit ‘blocks breast cancer’

February 25, 2010

• Captive orcas

February 25, 2010

• Steam Is Most Probably Coming to Macs

February 25, 2010 – iTunes for Video Games? NICE

• Teen accused of blackmailing students for sex on Facebook sentenced to 15 years – Los Angeles Times

February 25, 2010

• Teen accused of blackmailing students for sex on Facebook sentenced to 15 years – Los Angeles Times

February 25, 2010 – =O

• Kennedy, John F.

February 25, 2010 – A child miseducated is a child lost.

• NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams – Whale Kills Trainer at Florida’s SeaWorld

February 24, 2010

• Swingers sex club built in art gallery

February 24, 2010

• Britain’s smelliest urine contest at theme park

February 25, 2010 – ewwwwwwww

• 5 Realistic Organization Tips from a Notoriously Disorganized Person

February 24, 2010

• Blockbuster to Shut 500 U.S. Stores, Restructure Debt (Update1)

February 24, 2010 – Knew this was going to eventually happen

• FDA says HIV drugs from Roche and Abbott can be dangerous when used together

February 23, 2010

• Our Brains Really Can Get Too Full

February 24, 2010

• 10 Reasons to Avoid Talking on the Phone

February 23, 2010

• Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I’ve had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh. ~~~ Katharine Hepburn

February 23, 2010

• 5 Free Tools To Create Collages From Your Pictures

February 23, 2010

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I have been on hiatus while I dealt with the death of my sister. Life can’t be on a standstill forever, so eventually, you have to keep moving. I did a lot of soul searching on what I want my blog and web site to say about me, so I am going to be doing a few changes. Every and any type of feedback you can give would be appreciated.

Thank you everyone for your love and support.

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• Wordpress.com Blogs Back After Outage

February 18, 2010

• Investors Pull $37 Billion From Money Market Funds, EPFR Says

February 18, 2010

• 30 percent of U.S. is totally safe from Internet threats

February 18, 2010 – A survey of 54,000 households (129,000 people) commissioned by National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) last year found that 30 percent of U.S residents did not use the Internet at home or at work.

• 7 Reasons Not to Put All Your Eggs in the Twitter Basket

February 18, 2010

• WordPress Down: WordPress.com Experiences Outage

February 18, 2010 – Nope

• Please breed more during Year of the Tiger, Taiwan tells citizens

February 18, 2010

• Porn billboard man arrested

February 18, 2010 – Ha!

• Seoul man steals 1,200 pairs of shoes

February 18, 2010 – Hope he has enough shoes now

• The Best Way to Differentiate Your Blog

February 18, 2010

• Why the Blackberry Kindle App May Be More Important Than the Kindle 3

February 18, 2010

• Extreme Breath-Holding: How It’s Possible

February 18, 2010 – Wow, 20 minutes?

• Freelance Writing: Nothing Has Changed & Everything Has Changed

February 17, 2010

• How YouTube Can Benefit Writers: YouTube Videos and Vlogs for *…*

February 17, 2010 – …

• Dead woman starts breathing again in funeral home

February 17, 2010

• 4 Measures to Put in Place So Your Freelance Writing Clients Won’t Rip You Off

February 17, 2010 – I never thought about the kill fee. Pretty good idea

• Day in pictures

February 17, 2010

• Tax and Deduction Software Reviewed and Compared [Tax Time]

February 17, 2010

• Top 10 Best Space Food

February 16, 2010

• Top 10 Worst Space Food

February 16, 2010

• Fantastic Batgirl Illustrations

February 16, 2010

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• What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. ~~~ Mark Twain

February 11, 2010

• Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? ~~~ Mae West

February 12, 2010

• The 6 Pillars of a Seemingly Successful Blog

February 11, 2010

• The World Best Designers: India

February 10, 2010

• Evangelion: 1.11 You Are Not Alone

February 10, 2010

• How to Use the Web to Improve and Manage Your Finances

February 10, 2010 – I’m all for this

• Flickr Founder Opens Up About Game-Changing New Game [Q&A]

February 10, 2010 – Anyone play this?

• Going Steady: 10 Animals More Monogamous Than Us (Slideshow)

February 10, 2010 – Only ten?

• Is The Catcher in the Rye really unfilmable? | Stuart McGurk

February 10, 2010

• AT&T and Verizon race for 4G deployment

February 10, 2010 – Start your engines!!!!

• Cybersecurity is Not Your Gig, NSA!

February 10, 2010 – The news that the NSA and Google are working on a deal for the military agency to help protect the information giant’s data networks comes at a time when the NSA is angling to get a major piece of cybersecurity action.

• via turnofthecentury.

February 10, 2010 – terrifying.

• How Facebook Breeds Jealousy

February 10, 2010

• Shorten your own URLs

February 9, 2010

• 10 Years Of Bejeweled, 1,000 Years Of Lost Productivity [Happy Birthday]

February 10, 2010 – Who doesn’t love Bejeweled?

• Leschak, Peter M.

February 10, 2010

• Disney Bumps Cars 2 to December 2011

February 10, 2010 – the kids are going to love this

• Kell on Earth Is So Real That It Kind of Freaks Me Out

February 10, 2010 – I forgot to watch it!

• Jaws to Return in 3-D?

February 10, 2010 – *cue the music

• What Should Toyota Do Now?

February 10, 2010 – ?

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• Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. ~~~ Albert Einstein

February 3, 2010

• A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. ~~~ George Bernard Shaw

February 4, 2010

• 39% of Bagged Salads Have Too Much Fecal Bacteria

February 5, 2010 – eeekkkkk

• Is Channing Tatum’s Sappy New Website a Dear John Marketing Ploy?

February 5, 2010 – Of course

• Why is braille dying?

February 5, 2010 – =(

• 5 More Reasons Stress Can Mess With Beauty

February 5, 2010 – Acne!!!!

• This Girl Is Getting Plastic Surgery to Look Just Like Jessica Alba

February 5, 2010 – Wow

• NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams – The Panda Express

February 5, 2010 – NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

• “To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.”

February 4, 2010

• Coffee Foam Art

February 3, 2010 – I am mesmerized. How do they do that?

• I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. ~~~ Albert Einstein

February 1, 2010

• Life isn’t worth living, unless it is lived for someone else. ~~~ Albert Einstein

February 2, 2010

• Get Over Your Porta-Potty Fears

February 2, 2010 – One thing I hate about races are the Porta-Potties

• Intelligence chief: attacks on Google “wake-up call”

February 2, 2010

• WiFi-detector T-shirt turned into a bumper sticker for the roadfaring nerd

February 1, 2010

• With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon. ~~~ Albert Einstein

February 1, 2010

• PDFMyURL Saves Web Sites as PDF Files [PDF]

February 1, 2010

• CBS Sells Out Super Bowl Ads, Some Top $3 Million (Update1)

February 1, 2010

• How to Get Your Kids to Eat Almost Anything

February 1, 2010 -

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• Family Guy – s8 | e11 – Dial Meg for Murder

January 18, 2010

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