Today’s Byte is only kind of tech related. It’s a fun site that will help you come up with recipes based on what you have in your kitchen. Super Cook: http://www.supercook.com You enter your ingredients and it will give you a list of recipes that requires only those ingredients. It will remember your ingredients – … Continue reading
Author Archives: Ann Treacy
Coax people to your site
Today someone asked me how to drive traffic to their site. I know I’ve written on this before but I thought that if I came up with a list of 7 things to do that Byte readers might find that to be interesting too. So here it is: 1. Give them a reason to visit … Continue reading
Animoto
I found a new way to share vacation pictures – Animoto (www.animoto.com). You can sign up for free – the directions on the site are specific and easy to follow. You simply upload your photos, choose background music and add details. For free you can upload 8-15 images. I uploaded the images without resizing from my … Continue reading
Online Forum Policies
Today’s Byte is pretty specific but I hope a few folks will it useful. For a more general tip…After my last Byte John in Hibbing had a good suggestion for a fax to email tool: Faxaway: http://www.faxaway.com/ A couple of people lately have asked me about policies for online forums. You want the flexibility to … Continue reading
Social media success with Learning Zone Express
Earlier this summer I started working with Learning Zone Express. They create and sell posters, books, curricula and more related to kids’ health and nutrition. Some stuff is geared towards teachers and schools; some is more for families. (I love their foodscapes – pictures of animals created with food.) Anyways we met to start a … Continue reading
fax to email
OK I know I’ve been terrible with the timely bytes this summer – I’m going home on Thursday and that should help me get back on track. In the meantime… Someone asked me about email to fax and fax to email options last week. I haven’t tried any of these – and most of them … Continue reading
Skype forwarding
I know I’ve talked about Skype http://www.skype.com before. I’m not the biggest user at home – but I love it when I’m in Ireland. My new favorite thing is that I can forward my Skype phone number to a landline (or cell phone). So my Twin Cities number now rings through to the house where … Continue reading
Adding Twitter Feed to Blog sidebar
Sorry I’ve been terrible about the Byte of the Week lately. I’m back in Ireland – but only for 6 weeks. You can see what we’re doing here: http://10qs.wordpress.com/ Sticking with the Twitter theme I started a while ago I wanted to end by talking about how you can add your Twitter feed to your … Continue reading
Twitter shortcuts
Last week I talked about why you might want to Twitter. So I’m sure you’ve all jumped in and have been Tweeting ever since. Here are a few commands that will #topic – I talked about this last week; it allows you to tag or add a subject to your message such as #worldseries for … Continue reading
Why Twitter?
Good uses of Twitter http://twitter.com/ Last week I spoke to a group about Twitter. The big question was – why would I ever want to use it. Some folks used it with friends but couldn’t see a business use. So I wanted to outline some good uses. First some Twitter basics: Twitter is like micro-blogging. … Continue reading