Print Screen an Entire Page with Just a Click

Printing screen can be a daunting task if you want to print way more than just a selection or what appears on the window, so I’ve was faced with that question yesterday when a client phoned me and asked how she could print an entire page an save that as image file. I had only two solutions for her on a Sunday night and still sick the way I am couldnt think more, but I’m sure Sandra got what she needed.

FireShot is a extension for Internet Explorer that captures, edits, annotates, organizes, exports and prints screenshots of your web pages.. Download it Here

Screengrab 0.96.2 for Firefox will capture what you can see in the window, the entire page as image . PNG or .JPG, just a selection, a particular frame…- either to a file, or to the clipboard.

Experience with either one, then you pick what best suites you, it serves both your blog and designer purposes. I personally use Screengrab

If you get any issue installing, just post here or send me a message, I’ll be happily helping you

Twitter tools to make your life easier

A few days ago I was talking to friends/clients who do not know much about social networking, especially twitter, so they asked me for tips and ways of twitting without exactly having to have twitter page opened, I gave them a few of those tools I used most and then I thought it would be a good idea and usefulness if I posted them here as wellsince newbies and beginners everyone was once, and I’d have really appreciated to have someone to give me tips when I was starting, so here we go:

1 – TwitThis is an easy way for people to share a page or site on twitter. We provide buttons and a javascript bookmarklet to make it easy to tweet about any page.

2 – TwitterBar allows you to post to Twitter from Firefox’s address bar.

3 – Twittermail Users can post to their Twitter account by sending a message to their own unique email address.

5 – Twuffer allows the Twitter user to compose a list of future tweets and schedule their release.

6 – TweetlaterThis app allows you to post Tweets at a later time and date.

7 – Twhirl is a free desktop client that allows you to use Twitter like an instant messenger. It makes URL shortening, contacting friends directly, and reading tweets very easy.

8 – Twitteroo Quickly shorten URLs and tweet from your desktop.

9 – TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter. You can post pictures to TwitPic from your phone, the TwitPic home page or your Twitter account.

10 – Twitterfone Send messages to Twitter using voice.

Photo Manipulation

Below a selection of 6 of my favorites of Erik Johansson’s work, a Sweden freelance photographer.

Healthy Middle Afternoon Snack

Tasty and Nutritious

Was just chilling at home and suddenly got that hunger feeling craving something sweet, something to warm up my inner like a large cup of hot chocolate or a buttery croissant with nutella, wait up a minute!!!!! I couldn’t have that just now, I can have it sporadically but not after all the damage I made on Christmas and Revellion parties so the least I can do to help my body heal from all that aggression is trying to eat the cleanest possible without losing, of course, the flavor of a good food.

Went then over my cabinets and found a pretty good whole wheat toast with fiber I bought at an organic supermarket near my gym 80kcal, just spreaded a wedge of light creamy Swiss cheese 35Kcal, a tbsp sugar free grape jam, a cup of my hot fresh mint tea just bought from my favorite Vietnamese supermarket with a touch of orange zest sweetened with splenda no calorie.

A great recipe and a great nutritious low calorie snack for cold afternoons with only 105 Kcal.
How does that sound to you? Wanna give it a try?

Human Trafficking Awareness Month

There are some 27 million people held in slavery today across the globe.

✳✳ According to 2009 State Department Trafficking in Persons Report over 80% of those trans-nationally trafficked are women and children.

✳✳ The US State department estimates that some 800,000 people are trafficked across international
borders each year and about 80 percent of them are female and at least 50% are children.

✳✳ In 1850 a slave in the Southern United States cost the equivalent of $40,000 today. According to
Free the Slaves, a slave today costs an average of $90.

If you suspect a situation or a potential victim, please call the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline at 1-888-3737-888! We highly recommend you take a moment to place this number in your mobile phones now.

Raise Awareness in Ten Steps:

1. Dedicate your Facebook status to the hotline for a week.
2. Put up hotline flyers in Greyhound bus stations.
3. Tell 5 friends to put the hotline number in their cell phones.
4. Hand out information about the hotline at concerts, fairs, and community events.
5. Talk about it. Tell your friends, teachers, teammates, co-workers, and family members about this resource.
6. Invite your friends over to watch a movie on human trafficking and tell them about the hotline.
7. Post the hotline number on your website and/or blog.
8. Put up hotline posters in the windows of local businesses.
9. Ask a teacher, politician, or other local leader to talk about human trafficking and the hotline.
10. Post hotline flyers in motels and hotels in your area.

Resource centers:

polarisproject.org
bridgetofreedomfoundation.org
stopchildslavery.com
notforsalecampaign.org
endslaverynow.com
change.org
unionvoice.org
aft.org

Home Made Repairing and Hydrating Hair Masks

The cold and harsh weather is knocking at our door but that doesn’t mean we have to care less about our hair than on summer time, winter can also damages our hair almost as summer does, especially when the use of hair dryer doubles as we will never be stepping outside with a head of wet hair in that blustery air.

So for us to start taking care of our hair in winter exactly as we take care of our skin I have researched a few interesting, effective and most important, natural recipes and some of them even used over the years by me and my cousins, so here the two proved most effective with the hair types below:

1- Dried Hair – Carrot, Avocado and Vitamin E Mask:

Ingredients:

1 carrot
1/2 avocado
1 table spoon of sweet almond oil
1 tbs of honey
1 cup of natural yogurt
1 capsule of de vitamin E

How to Prepare:
Wash your hair with shampoo before applying the mask. Blend all the ingredients together in a blender for about 5min, separate your hair in small locks and apply the mixture in each one of them from root to tips with a brush or fine comb, when finishing applying all over your hair, cover your your head with a large piece of foil for about 40min. Rinse well after the 40min, apply your preferred conditioner and let it dry naturally. Repeat that procedure every 2 weeks.

2- Oily Hair – Rosemary Spinach Mask:

Ingredients:

3 cups of Spinach slightly chopped
2 tbs of fresh Rosemary leaves
1 tea bag without the tea

How to Prepare:

Cook the spinach with 3 tbs of water then blend it together with the rosemary leaves put everything into the tea bag and apply gently all over your hair in separate locks, leaving in for about 30min.

Important: Before making use of any kind of masque do a test on your skin before using it on your hair. That must be done to avoid any kind of allergic reaction on your body.

Have everything cleaned up before preparing any masque, the success of your treatment depends on the hygiene of your materials also.

And last but not least, do not substitute any ingredient on the recipes even if you find it is going to have a better effect.

Blog Mulherao Big Girls Blog

Just heard of a new blog and went right by there to check it out and, surprisingly, for me, I could watch a beautiful testimony of a beautiful girl who denominates herself a ”big girl” Well, I dont think she’s that big but the thing is her blog is awesome and I loved it.

It’s a blog full of fun, information and good vibes, showing big girls how to pull through the difficulty of being ”big” discovering from the inner self the ability to cope with ignorance and bringing out the ability to love themselves for what they are.

Being big doesn’t mean you can’t be sexy, sensual, beautiful, attractive, smart, intelligent, elegant, you can have all of those qualities and even more, much more I can say. You are a person, that’s who you are, a person with feelings and brain, a person who can love and be loved, you are a person, not a size, so look inside and find out how wonderfully you can enjoy life, being happy and making people happy.

This is what reading that testimony made me feel and I hope those girls, no matter what happens, do not keep from bringing to us their thought and feelings and sharing with us what only us can feel on our skin, the happily truth of being big.

Thank you Mulherao

Low Cost Recycled Christmas Trees.

Found good ideas for a ”green” Christmas and a pretty easy way to save money with this recession time.

Soda Can Christmas Tree

Cardboard Christmas Tree

Recycled Paper Christmas Tree

Magazines Christmas Tree

Disposable Forks Christmas Tree

Plastic Bottles Christmas Tree

Ecologismo.com

It seems I’m back

I’ve been blocked for a while due to a few banners I had but now I think everything is gonna go back to ”normal”

Protein Burns Fat

Untold millions have been spent in weight-loss crazes and fat-burning drugs, but it appears a diet high in protein might have the same metabolic effect, according to a study by The Veterinary and Agricultural University in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Researchers gave a group of 12 subjects three different meals: Two replaced about 20% of the carbohydrates in subjects’ diets with either pork or soy protein, and the third lowered the protein content in favor of more carbs.

Researchers then measured subjects’ 24-hour energy expenditures, and found that the pork and soy results showed about a 3% greater thermogenic effect than the carbohydrate diet, with pork producing a slightly greater effect than soy.

More encouraging still for carnivores is the mounting evidence that protein-rich meals lead to a greater feeling of fullness, and therefore fewer calories are consumed.