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How to Add #Loveisnottourism banner to your Social media profile pictures!

Paul

Social Media

It’s effeminately a very powerful to tool to use to make governments see us and hear our pleas and demands.   Everyone has learned that over the years.   Yet I look on some of the social media sites and don’t see the profile picture being changed.   I ask myself why didn’t they change their profile picture?  I can only assume some people don’t understand that your profile picture even on FB can make a tremendous impact in what someone or everyone see’s about you.   They rarely visit your profile and check for updates.   This can be a good or bad thing depending on how you want people to per-sieve you.   If you are a business or have a business and use your social media to promote your business.   I can see why it will look a certain way.   Yet we loose the value of ourselves when we don’t make our profile more pronounced when it comes to our loved ones.

International Travel

On my previous post I talk about all the travel bans and where you could look to find out information about  what might be required of if you could get into the nationality.   The next problem we are dealt with is that we need to make sure every government hears our desires, and wants, and not be able to keep us quite!

Setting your Picture profile up!

Now that you’ve decided to change your profile picture you have a few options to add a small text around or in your picture profile to make sure people better know what it is you are wanting them to see.   Here’s a few options:

First Option:

You can go to Love Is Essential website and upload your profile you want to use and they will gladly put a text in your picture with “Love is not Tourism” banner.  See below for example of what it might look like.

Second Option:

I used Facebook and uploaded a picture and Told Facebook to add a Frame to it.   I searched for “Love is Not Tourism“.   Then I added that frame to my Profile Picture and Your done with that part.   Now if you want to use that frame with other sites such as Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, or any other social media just download the picture by right clicking on your profile picture and save image to device or Desktop.   You’ll need to view your Facebook profile picture and then you can easily grab it.   I personally like this one better because it doesn’t obscure your picture but people can see your profile picture.

Third Option

This option is for those who don’t have Facebook or wants to make it even personalized.   You can smartphone apps like Snapseed or other Picture edition apps for your phone device.  You can add your personal messages to any photo then upload them to all your social networks.   This way everyone can see your text and know that you are wanting your local governments to know where you stand on this issue.

Finally,  If you do this it will help your cause because maybe one of the important people on Facebook, or even some other social network will see it and put pressure on the governments to allow loved ones into the country.

If you enjoyed this post please feel free to share it with others and encourage them to update their profile pictures and support our cause!

ThePirateBay might be blocked in the US

Paul

I was looking around on Google and thought I just for giggles check out the Piratebay complaints. I tried going to the site and here’s what Popups:

notauthorized

[ad#ad2-right]I tried on OpenVPN and my Local ISP, It keeps saying that. I then tried on my Cricket Modem and it tells me the connection has been interrupted, like something stops the connection in the first place. I can ping it and I can Tracert the Site but I can’t even view it. I would like to know if Anyone else is having this problem also. Although I’ve not checked Thepiratebay.org complaints for quite some time because I’ve been so busy with my website. If you want to watch your favorite shows check out these sites like Hulu, CBS, NBC, ABC, ABC FAMILY and TNT.TV for free. I am just curious as to what happened and does this have anything to do with Net Neutrality?   Anyway I wanted to talk about this and see what people are saying.  Anyone know what is going on?  Let’s talk about this and help everyone by saying what you know.   I don’t know if Thepiratebay.org is down but I do wonder if someone is preventing people from getting to the website.   I’ll update when I have more information.

Using Skype with Cellular BroadBand Modems

Paul

If your like me you will want to make sure you have the best possible speed and connection with your broad band modem. Here are a few articles to better help with you get the best possible speed with a broad band modem like a Cricket modem:

Some other things to consider are:

These will start to make it better for you to use a modem and get the best possible speeds from the modem.  You have to realize what your coverage area is.  There are many factors in regards to your modem speed but that is something that you will have to figure out how to get better speeds.

How do you use Skype with your Cellular broad band modem?

Somethings to remembers with your broadband modem is you won’t have a good connection no matter how hard you try.   Most cellular carriers don’t want you to us it with VOIP(Voice of Internet Protocol).   So you will have to pay close attention to how you use the bandwidth and what you are doing while making a VOIP call.

The good thing about Skype is, it comes with some very useful tools to better watch your bandwidth and to help get the best possible connection.  You will want to make sure not to have it be a super-node, to do this you go to:

Tools then;Options

My settings for Skype with Cricket<

As you can see I checked off use port 80 and 443 as alternative incoming connections, I also like to see all the technical information and bandwidth usage per call.  I made sure to use Socks5 to prevent skype from becoming a super-node. I also have it set to not automatically start up when I load windows.  To do that all you have to do is go to the General tab and un-check start Skype when Windows start.   You can use any port you want as long as you use the same on the SOCKs5 setting also.   I just made the port up it can be 0 to 4 numbers long.   If you want to understand what ports are this little document will greatly help you figure out which ports are good to use.  Some other things to remember when you use Skype for long periods of time is if you need to call someone you should try not to use the internet to much for that takes bandwidth also.  It is better to have Skype use all the possible bandwidth you have available.

Panatech PX-500 PCMCIA Sprint EVDO BroadBand Card

Paul

[ad#tmi-right-1-1]The Pantech PX-500 wireless mobile broadband card for Sprint gives you data communication access for your PC laptop anywhere you roam on the Sprint network at faster speeds than ever before. EV-DO rev A compatibility gives you download speeds of up to 3.1 Mbps and beefy upload speeds of up to 1.8 Mbps. Simple to use, the Pantech PX-500 wireless mobile broadband card lets you surf the Internet, send and receive email and text messages, and connect to corporate networks from just about anywhere.

Technical Specs:

  • Dimensions – 4.57 in x 2.13 in x 0.51 in

  • Weight – 1.8 oz

  • Data Download Speed – EV-DO rev A (Up to 3.1 Mbps Down/1.8 Mbps Up), EV-DO rev 0 (2.4 Mbps Down/153 Kbps Up), 1xRTT

  • Download Protocol – CDMA 850, 1900

  • Compatible Carrier – Sprint PCS

  • Network Compatibility – CDMA 850, 1900

  • 3G Data Speeds – Yes

Compatibility Features

  • Device Supports Data Plans – Yes

  • Available For Purchase Without Service Plan – Yes

Saw this card and did a little digging.  I looks like the newest updated software and drivers for this card can also make it Vista and Linux compatible.   Although with any card you will use up more battery life but it is a small price to pay to check email and surf the web. Also if you have an newer laptop or am about to upgrade I’d suggest Getting a Sierra Wireless Compass 597 USB Modem from Sprint! This is good for anyone who wants to surf the web and not have to buy the hardware to do it with.  Both are free to buy and ship with a two year contract. If in doubt please get the USB card that way you know you know you will be able to use it.

Upcoming CES 2009 — Juicy Stories

Paul

So we are getting close to CES or Computer Electronics Show to some.  This is going to be a very interesting year, due to the depressing economy.   So I wanted to talk about some of the upcoming announcements at CES so people could get ready for the upcoming 2009 Show:

  • Skype will announce free US and Canada calling to cellular numbers or land lines.  This will undoubtedly be an Ad supported service and have a limited amount of minutes per call.  This will be good for people on the road who need to make a quick call here and there without having to pay for anything.  They have given some of the tidbits out already but I can’t wait to find out what else they will announce at CES.

  • [ad#cricket-1-1]Windows 7 Beta — People seem to think they will release the beta the same day they announce just like they did at the PDC(Professional Developers Conference) and also give it out to people at CES.  Although that might work to a point it will be very hard for people to get in the BETA.  There is a list brewing of people wanting to get onto the beta in the Microsoft Connection Community Site.  I can’t wait for next month but I am sure it is going to be nice.

  • Windows Live Beta — Here is another Microsoft product that might also be combined with Windows 7, it is a possibility and might be intergrated into Windows 7 for some but I am not sure what will happen all to much.  I am sure they will announce something about this at CES and only time will tell.

  • IE 8 Beta — Although this isn’t something unexpected.  It however will be interesting to see how they throw this one out to testers because they will undoubtedly test it on Windows 7 and they will be sending these out in the same time.   I think they will be also intergrating this into Windows 7 Beta release as if it will be on the new system.  I do not know what they are going to do but I am sure something will happen.

[ad#ad2-left]This is just a small bit of possible out comes, and there is still more to come.  I wanted to point out that these are not confirmed and should be considered as a rumor nothing more nothing less.  Don’t put to much money on what will happen to much.  We do know that the Betas are probably going to come out due to Microsoft announcing these to be out by the first of year.   Only time will tell for what will happen in the coming year though.  I can’t wait to find out what happens.