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Having to click on each and every Facebook friend can become tedious when you are trying to share a page, event or group. Is there a better way? Of course there is, just follow these easy steps. I have used this code myself several times for Anything Web You Can Imagine and Sabra’s Bass pages, a few of my friends’ events as well as A Macro Life – Macro Philosophy group on Facebook.

1. Go to the group, event or page and click the suggest to/invite friends link.
2. Once you see your friends’ pictures loaded, erase the current URL from the address bar of your browser.
3. Click on the box below containing the code and copy/paste into the address bar of your browser and press enter.
4. Depending on how many friends you have you may have to wait for a few seconds to see them all selected.
5. Once you see them all highlighted, click the ‘send’ button on the Facebook invite window.
6. Please keep in mind that also depending on how many friends you have, it may take a while for all of the invites to be sent. They get queued.

For visual instructions, please watch the 51 second how-to video below.

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Tired of the same old look of your blog but aren’t sure how to change it? Try this…

1. Download a new theme to your computer. Make sure it is a .zip file. If it is not already a .zip file (compressed) then you will need to right click on the folder and ‘send to’ –> ‘compressed zip folder’.

2. Go to your WordPress Administrator log in panel and log in.

3. Select the ‘Add New Themes’ button under the ‘Appearance’ block of the admin panel.

4. When this page is finished loading, be sure to select the ‘upload’ text directly under the ‘Install Themes’ title.

5. Click the ‘Browse…’ button to search your computer for the .zip file that you downloaded or compressed.

6. Select the file and then click the ‘Install Now’ button. Please note that this does not immediately install the new theme to a live state without your confirmation. It will then give you the option to Preview, Activate or Return to Themes Page.

7. When you are ready to activate, click the activate text on the confirmation page or go to your Themes page to activate. That’s it!

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I have been asked many times, “How do you make those cool graphics that look like slide shows?”  Well, if you have Adobe Photoshop, then you have found the answer.  If you don’t have Photoshop, you can purchase it here.

1. Open Photoshop CS3

2. Click on the ‘File’ menu button  from the top menu bar.

3. Select ‘Scripts’ > ‘Load Files Into Stack…’

4. Click the ‘Browse’ button and select your images.

5. When you have selected all of the frames or images that you want to load into this animated gif, click the ‘OK’ button.

6. Once the file is finished loading the layers, select the ‘Window’ menu button from the top menu bar.

7. Click the ‘Animation’ option in the ‘Window’ drop down menu.

8.  Click the icon that looks like  and select ‘Make Frames From Layers’

9. Please take note:  there are 2 different views of this step, you need to be in the frame view.  To be sure that you are in this view, make sure the icon in the lower right corner of the Animation window looks like

10. Set the time on each frame by clicking the down arrow below each frame image in the Animation window.

11.  You can test the speed by clicking play at the bottom of this window.

12.  Once satisfied with the speed settings, go to the ‘File’ drop down menu at the top of CS3 and click on ‘Save For Web and Devices’

13.  Make sure in your save settings, it is saving as a gif file or your animations will not work.

14.  If the file size is too big, check your save settings for unnecessary additions, remove them and continue save.

Here is my finished example:

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So a client wants to preview the changes that I just made to a site, and they browse but don’t see the changes. What happened to all that work?

First things are first – did the file get saved and uploaded to the site properly? Yes, so then what? My next question is always “W Most times, they have no idea what private data is or at the least, have no idea that it is affecting their preview.

What is a Cache?  Here’s what Wikipedia has to say:

In computer science, a cache (“cash”) is a collection of data duplicating original values stored elsewhere or computed earlier, where the original data is expensive to fetch (owing to longer access time) or to compute, compared to the cost of reading the cache.

In other words, a cache is a storage area where data that is accessed a lot is stored for faster loading time and/or quicker access to things.  In a way, it’s your browser’s memory and can hold old/out dated versions of things unless it is properly maintained.   Every browser has this feature and it is enabled by default, but clearing it is not.  This must be done manually.

How do you clear your browsing data?  Depending on your browser type, follow the instructions below.

1. Internet Explorer (IE)

2. Mozilla FireFox

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This ‘How To is designed to help you clear your Internet Explorer (IE) cache only.

If this is not your browser click here.

1.  Open Internet Explorer (IE)

2.  Click on the ‘Tools’ drop down menu.  This can be located either at the top of the page (*2a) near the ‘File’ drop down or at the right of your page (*2b) near the ‘Safety’ or ‘Page’ drop down.

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2b

3.  Select the ‘Internet Options’ from the Drop Down.

4.  Within the ‘General’ tab, find the section that is titled ‘Browsing History’.

5.  Click the ‘Delete…’ button (*5a).

5a

6.  You want to make sure that the following is checked:  Temporary Internet files, Cookies, History, Form Data and InPrivate Filtering Data.

7.   Click the ‘Delete’ button.

Once these actions are performed, you can close out of your ‘Internet Options’ window and continue browsing.

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This ‘How To is designed to help you clear your Mozilla FireFox cache and Private Data only.

If this is not your browser click here.

1. Open Mozilla FireFox

2. Click on the ‘Tools’ drop down menu. This is located either at the top of the page (*2a) near the ‘File’ drop down.

2a

3. Select the ‘Clear Private Data..’ or ‘Clear Recent History..’ (depending on version) from the Drop Down.

4. When the box comes up, you want to make sure that the following is checked: Browsing History, Saved Form and Search History, Cache, Cookies and Offline Website Data. If there is a time range available, select ‘Everything’.

5. Click the ‘Clear Private Data Now’ button.

Once these actions are performed, the window will automatically close and you can continue browsing. Please note that you will need to sign in again to any sites that you were signed into prior to clearing your cache.

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