Friday, December 26, 2014

What To Do When Apple Forgets the Ipad Mini Training Manual

Did you get a new Apple iPad Mini for Christmas and you don't want to spend 5 hours teaching grandma or your parents how to use their new iPad because they don't come with a good training manual?

Well, I was in the same boat as you this year...

I figured I would get my mom a new Apple iPad Mini for Christmas this year, but there was a slight problem - this was her first tablet and since she has never used Apple products in the past, there was a bit of a learning curve.

Well, a huge learning curve.

Sure, I could spend a few minutes showing her the basics, but after awhile, my frustrations were growing and I didn't want to spend hours showing her how to use her new iPad. And for those of us tech-savvy individuals who've used the iPad for a long time, we have never really needed and instruction guide since, well, the applications are pretty straight forward.

But what about for an iPad newbie? How do they learn how to use the iPad if it's the first gift they ever received?

I was doing some research, and stumbled upon a cool site that has ipad training videos: IPadVideoTraining.com

The videos are set up in an "Ipad 101" video training series, and you can learn right on your computer (or Ipad if you know how to use Safari!).

You can access the videos anywhere you have a Wi-Fi connection, as the training videos do not need to be downloaded and are held right on the site.

So if you are like me, and you don't feel like getting frustrated telling grandma how to use her new tablet this holiday season, maybe do a good deed and give her the missing instruction manual!



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Apple forget the Ipad Instruction Manual for the Mini and Ipad Air? Watch the training videos at: http://iPadVideoTraining.com


Thursday, December 11, 2014

The FASTEST Way to Create Images Without Using Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator

Many people often ask me how the heck I can get content spit out so quickly for all my sites by creating images without using Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop.

After all, I suck at graphic design and I am able to quickly get images done for my WordPress sites in order to get my sites up at a rapid pace.

For those of you web designers and bloggers, who hate waiting for gigs done of Fiverr, but are constantly tweaking things on your blog or websites, having a quick method of generating images for your site is key.

The Secret to Making Images QUICKLY Without Adobe or Photoshop

So what's my secret? I use a web based program called My Ecover Creator (http://MyEcoverCreator.com). Whenever I need virtually ANY quick image put together, and I don't feel like waiting for my designer (in fact, I FIRED MY DESIGNER) and want to add a quick image with text to my blogs, I use this site.

Pros and Cons

The pros of this program is it is very inexpensive. It is only $14/month to make unlimited designs. You can make anything from:

  • Software boxes
  • video screen shots and 3d Players
  • 3D eBook Covers
  • DVD and CD Covers and Sleeves
  • Banners
  • Headers
  • Pictures with a transparent background
  • and more!
Pretty much any banner you see on my affiliate sites come from that site. I've made over 500 images using that site. If I were to hire someone on Fiverr, I would have paid, well, $2500 just for those designs, so the monthly fee is no big deal.

See some of my example headers and Logos here:

Cons are that you have to know what you're going to design, and have some guidelines as to how your design is going to look. Other than that, I've had no problems with MyEcoverCreator.

Best of luck!
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