Comments on: How technology affects my business today.

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:42:16 +0000

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By: Jonty - Call Centre Helper

Jonty - Call Centre Helper — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:44:03 +0000

I have strarted to make myself less accessible to get more work done.

The big success was to change my email from coming in at once to coming in once every 60 seconds. This way I get less distractions and can get more work done.

I also gave up on the Blackberry as everywhere I went I also took a PC.. Instead I have linked my PC to my 3G mobile phone.

By: Jim Lee

Jim Lee — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:03:42 +0000

I found this posting interesting, particularly since I’m trying to use technology for exactly the OPPOSITE purpose… getting freedom from the phone, Blackberry, emails, etc.

There’s an excellent book by Tim Ferriss called “The Four-Hour Work Week” (which was a bestseller last year), on precisely this issue… using technology to get MORE freedom, rather than LESS freedom.

Another excellent resource is James Brausch’s “Freedom Business System”
http://www.FreedomBusinessSystem.com

I’m not there yet… but certainly working towards it, day by day.

Cheers,
Jim

By: Lorren Biffin

Lorren Biffin — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:01:01 +0000

We should add that you may want to resize the image first, to make sure you get as much of the subject in as you want in the cropped image. To do this, go to the main “Image” menu up top, pull it down and select “Image Size”, input your settings and press OK (make sure “Constrain Proportions” is selected to maintain the aspect ratio). After this you can use the instructions in the previous post.

Now, if you don’t want to hassle with all of this every time you make a new post, I’ve got a PHP script that can do all of this for you at runtime (“on-the-fly”)… Just input the URL to the image as a query string and drop it in your image tag’s “src” attribute.

Let me know.

By: hellyeahdude.com

hellyeahdude.com — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:49:48 +0000

No problem, I understand.
Use the crop tool, it looks like two lines connecting together.

Now, once you have that tool selected, at the top, you can define a HEIGHT AND WIDTH… this is key… Put in the PX of what height and width the image is…. So basically the height and width of what you want the image to be..

Once you have that put in, just select the area and crop, it’ll automatically size the image to what you defined…

Does that sound clear? Email me if you need more help.

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:38:14 +0000

Patrick I am just learning photoshop as we speak so I can make the pictures better. I would have to say this one is better than the one in my article before, but the rest look fine.

If you want to give me a crash course in how to do it properly I would be more than happy to learn!

Thank you for your concern!

By: hellyeahdude.com

hellyeahdude.com — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:46:32 +0000

Just checking, but do you guys realize that your images are loosing their original proportionate resolution? They are looking stretched and such…

Hope you guys know how to use the crop tool in photoshop.

By: Satish

Satish — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:26:15 +0000

Long live the BlackBerry and all the addiction it brings to our amazingly productive lives! :)

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:30:58 +0000

@lorren – yea sorry I was meaning to agree with you, sorry if it came out any other way.

By: Lorren Biffin

Lorren Biffin — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:26:54 +0000

Oh, I’m sure :)

My comment was only my two cents on an extension of the subject for general readers, not really a re-tort.