George Bush will say anything YOU want him to – guaranteed!

PRESIDENT George Bush is a good kid – he will say or think anything YOU want him to!

Just go to George says and choose a balloon type (speech or thought), pick a pose and a background, write some text and see what Bush does the next moment!

You can’t link to the image directly, just save it and upload it in your site/blog. And oh, did I mention that it’s free and that you don’t even have to register!
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Sounds fun? Well, why not try out try out other George Bush Comic Strip Generators at txt2pic?

Photrade – a free photo hosting and sharing site for photographers and bloggers

TO SAY that Photrade is an image hosting site is an understatement.

Photrade is a free image hosting site where photographers can not only host their images, but also sell them. And it has another unique offer. It is also possible to earn advertising revenues through the images!

To learn about earning advertising revenue, selling photos and buying photos/shipping, check out the Photrade FAQ. Please click it at the bottom of the photrade page. I couldn’t link to it as it is a pop-up window and lacks a url.

Are you looking for photographs to be used in presentations, brochures, books, theatrical plays etc? Well, you might be able to get images from Photrade!

The following are permitted use of content

advertising and promotional projects, including printed materials, product packaging, presentations, film and video presentations, commercials, catalogues, brochures, promotional greeting cards and promotional postcards (ie. not for resale or license);

entertainment applications, such as books and book covers, magazines, newspapers, editorials, newsletters, and video, broadcast and theatrical presentations; on.line or electronic publications, including web pages to a maximum of 800 x 600 pixels;

prints, posters (i.e. a hardcopy) and other reproductions for personal use or promotional purposes specified in (1) above, but not for resale, license or other distribution
and any other uses approved in writing by Photrade. If there is any doubt that a proposed use is a Permitted Use, you should contact Photrade’s Client Relations for guidance.

(excerpt from Photrade)

To avoid any legal loophole, please please read the whole Photrade Content License Agreement page.

Bloggers can find properly licensed images at Photrade for their blogs. The search box is configured to find properly licensed images for blogs and sites. Oh how very convenient! And yes, the codes are also wordpress.com compatible!

There is only one condition for using images in sites/blogs – the link back to them in the image code canNOT be removed. I’m OK with that!

So, is there anything that I don’t like? Well, I don’t like the watermark. Couldn’t they think up something more palatable?

Well, if you want to remove the watermark, it is very possible to do so! Any guesses about how to do that? Read between the lines to see if you have the right answer!

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Each image code contains a ?pip after the image file extension (which is .jpg). All you have to do is remove ?pip and the watermark will be gone!

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A wordpress.com question
Did you say advertising revenue? Don’t we risk blog suspension if we drive traffic to such third party sites?
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Answer
Ok, chill already! I have emailed wordpress to know about that cos I had similar concerns. And they have given the thumbs up!
Some days we seem to have it all!

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How to have Shareomatic! social bookmarking service under wordpress.com blog posts

SHAREOMATIC! is a social bookmarking service available for wordpress bloggers! YAY!

BUT NOOOOOOOOOO! WordPress as in wordpress.org, not .com! Shareomatic! has this plugin for wordpress.org blogs! But I refuse to be defeated by orgers just like that. So I am gonna figure out if the only other option that Shareomatic has – the bookmarklet - can save my day.

And sure enough, the Shareomatic bookmarklet is the solution for wordpress.commers.

Just drag the bookmarklet in your browser’s toolbar. Now after publishing the post view your post. Make sure the address bar shows the blog post url, not the blog url! If you have been reading my other posts on social bookmarking for wordpress.com, then you probably know this procedure by heart now!

Now click the Shareomatic! bookmarklet. You will be taken to the Shareomatic site and two fields will be magically prepopulated with your blog post url and title!

Copy the url from the address bar.

Now come back to your blog admin and link the url to the Shareomatic button!

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Some features of Shareomatic!

Registration is not required for your reader to be able to use it. Having an acoount will help her/him get the services s-he use to be preselected. Shareomatic! makes automatic submission to multiple bookmarking sites a breeze! Desired sites are accessible from the same window, one after one in a row. Shareomatic! keeps track of new bookmarking sites and adds them to its services. Currently there are 79 social bookmarking sites in their list and they urge the user not to hesitate if another service needs to be added!

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By the way, don’t bother looking for the button in the site – it’s not there. There is some sort of a button available if you download the plugin. But that too is not a static button and so can’t be utilized by us!

I have seen how the button looks in another blog that has it. I have done all the work for you so that it will be easy for you in case you want to try it out first-hand!

Share with Shareomatic!

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Deviantart – a great site for artists, art lovers and (wordpress.com) bloggers

Deviantart is hot! Visual artists and bloggers and art lovers – if you don’t know about Deviantart, go ahead and give it a try!

For visual artists
Whether your choice of weapon is paint or pixels or photon, Deviantart is for you! You can not only showcase your work, but also sell it! You can not only have your own profile, but also your own gallery! Chat with fellow deviants and hang out at the forum. And my, the community is very strong! They do comment a lot, which helps in getting an assessment for your work! Your viewer can submit your work to Digg, which means, you can get a lot of traffic!

And about sharing, you can disable/enable downloads, embeds and prints as you wish. Also get your works licensed under a Creative Commons licence.

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For bloggers

For bloggers at Livejournal and Myspace

Once you find an image you like you can directly post it in your blog! All you have to do is click share this/blog this and then choose your blogging platform and you will be taken to your blog!

Other bloggers

As long as your blogging platform allows flash embeds, no need to despair! Each image has a sharing code (that is, if the artist hasn’t disabled it). If you can’t have flash embeds, then you will have to try the option for us wordpress.com bloggers!

WordPress.com bloggers

If the artist hasn’t disabled download, then we are in luck. Just download the image and upload it!

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For art lovers

Did I mention anywhere that you can print images? And also you can upload an image in your cell phone!

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How to use “socialmarker” to help your readers submit your wordpress.com blog posts to multiple social bookmarking sites

Although socialmarker is a great tool if you want to encourage your readers to submit our wordpress.com blog posts, the codes they provide are not compatible with wp .com (because it has the taboo-for-us thing – javascript) . But the roundabout solution is pretty easy, provided you have Firefox and have the socialmarker bookmark installed in your bookmarks toolbar.

After publishing a post, view the post. Please make sure that the address bar shows the blog post url and NOT the blog url.

Now select some text – a gyst if you like – that best represents your blog post.

Now click the socialmarker bookmark.

You will be taken to the socialmarker site. In the window you will see four fields. The first three fields are already populated with the title, link and (representative) text of your blog post. The last field – tags – is left empty for your reader to put chosen text.

Your job is to copy the url from the address bar. You will later use a socialmarker button to link this url. When your reader clicks the button, s-he will be able to bookmark your post using multiple social bookmarking sites!

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An important tip

I advise you to modify the code so that ALL the fields are populated as an effect. This is to ensure maximum possible exposure for your post, independent of extra effort on the reader’s end. I have modified the code to get the job done. If you test the button below, you will see that all the text fields are populated!
If you are willing to put in the extra effort – which really isn’t much of an effort – and need the modified code, don’t forget to ask me for it!

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Question

I use Addthis under each post. Please give me at least one good reason why I should convert!

Answer

Although they might seem similar (ie: an external site that makes submission easier, the best thing about socialmarker is, it really makes multiple submissions a snap. With Addthis you would have to go to one site after another to do the job. But socialmarker opens these sites within a frame one by one, when you click “next”. Another thing is, with socialmarker, the reader doesn’t have to fill the fields “text” and tag. With Addthis, there is no such automatic submission! Of course, for the tag thing to happen automagically, you have to make a slight modification to the socialmarker code. But it is worth it.

Looks like I gave more than one reason to favour socialmarker! Yep, I am letting it be known, socialmarker rules!

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