Creating blog post graphics

Having kept a blog running since 1999 - amazingly - one thing that has always taken me way too much time is creating an image to go alongsid...

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Slideshow options for android

I have been looking for a photo slideshow to run on my phone for a while so that I can show people selected images of overseas holidays, in ...

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Creating a background fill in Adobe Acrobat

I needed to recreate a lost page in a book recently, and thought that I could simply copy the missing text into a text box, then fill the bo...

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Converting avif files to jpg

I don't know if you have ever been sent an AVIF file and been unable to open it? If so, it is an Apple compressed image file format. In ...

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Using images in education

I was asked by a student where they could find pictures which are 'free' for them to add to their forum work. Our learning platform ...

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How to cite and reference TV shows

Ah, the tricky work of correctly APA citing TV shows! It was only when writing a recent post that I realised that I hadn't written an en...

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Changing image size in Excel print headers

There are some things which I do so regularly, I never need to write myself an instruction: the process is rehearsed again and again. Then t...

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How to cite and reference films

Ah, the tricky work of correctly APA citing films! It was only when writing a recent post that I realised that I hadn't written an entry...

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Saving webp files as jpgs

I don't know if you have tried to save - say - a book cover image to use in your book reader, or audiobook file, only to find the only ...

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Creating a kaleidoscope image

If you ever want to make a kaleidoscope-style image by using an image of your own, simply go to https://www3.lunapic.com/editor/ and ...

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Scaling images in MailChimp

For those of us who use MailChimp to send emailers, this platform can either make things incredibly easy, or screamingly, frustratingly, m...

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Taking a phone screenshot

Have you ever been in the situation where you need to take a screenshot of what is happening on your phone and not known how to do it? Yea...

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Reverse Google image search

Have you ever had an image that you wanted to find on Google? As an example, I had coped part of a birthday card that I had been given a n...

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Rotating Blogger images

Recently I was writing up some family news for another wee blog that I have, when I realised that some of my images were loading upside do...

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Mail Chimp 'Post to Facebook' images

I struck an interesting wee problem recently when setting up a new MailChimp emailer for my newsletter. The problem arose when I went to u...

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Inserting an image into a pdf

Have you ever printed an article to pdf from the web to find that, when you open it, the graphs or images haven't been included? Inste...

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Visual Storytelling

A FastCompany article caught my eye recently (19 August 2017). Apparently MIT neuroscience researchers have found that our brain can extra...

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Beach Body Ready: the ad to the meme

It was almost a year ago, in April and May of 2015, when online company Protein World ran an ad campaign advertising a weight loss 'me...

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A picture is worth...

All blog posts these days need an image. This is so our posts can be tweeted, pinned or show up bright and shiny and ALLURING to the rea...

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Blogging & MailChimp: getting the news out

(HubSpot, n.d.) We blog for many reasons, but mostly for connection. If we form closer connection and create more value for our customers...

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