Shady Nook

A warm summers day here has us all looking for a quiet shady nook to relax in. Have you found your shady spot? 

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My Garden Flowers

It’s summer and everyone here is enjoying the spell of decent summer weather. The British summers can be very unpredictable so we all try to make the most of it, spending as much time as we can outdoors. Not only do people  enjoy the spell 0f warm weather but so do the flowers in the garden. It’s not only the apricots that are bathing and ripening  in the warmth of the sun but also the peony, the cornflower, the roses to name just a few of the garden flowers that grow in my garden.

My Garden Flowers on Youtube

I have put together a short video of my garden flowers and it can now be viewed on Youtube. For the best result view the video in HD.

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Enjoy!

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Apricot Season

As it’s the apricot season here in the U.K., and seeing all these ripening apricots on my little apricot patio tree, reminded me of when I was a little girl my mother used to make the most delicious ‘fruit dumplings’. Whatever fruit was in season in the garden , mostly apples and plums, she peeled and cored the apples, stoned the plums, and wrapped them in a soft dough to boil them and then sprinkle them with sugar and cinnamon. Absolutely delicious!

Sometimes she bought fruit like apricots and did the same. Labour intensive cooking but worth every minute spent making the fruit dumplings. I will have to try to find that recipe again.

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Apricot Season

Apricot season is around July to end of the summer here in the U.K. and it’s definitly the apricot season here in Essex this year. It’s the first time that my little apricot patio tree, that was a birthday gift,  has produced any fruit and it looks absolutely wonderful, well worth the wait. We have had a lot of strong winds here lately and I thought we would lose them all, however they have managed to hang on. Today  I just couldn’t resist taking a few shots of the apricots with my Nikon as they bathed in the afternoon sun, they just looked so delicious and I am really looking forward to tasting my first home grown apricot. 

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Tendring Show Video part 2

More images from the Tendring Hundred Show 2010, an Essex County annual Agricultural event. A superb day out for all the family. The Tendring Show video part 2 is now on Youtube , best watched in HD (High Definition). 

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Enjoy!

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Tendring Show 2010 on Youtube

The day of the Tendring Show was hot with a cloudless blue sky. Staying cool for both animals and the public was a problem. The show was held in a field at Lawford Park which meant lots of dust being kicked up by animals and humans and cars.  Not the most ideal conditions to take pictures, however some of the shots have been compiled into a video which can now be viewed on youtube.

Video is best viewed in HD.

Enjoy!

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Tendring Hundred Show 2010 images

More  images from the Tendring Hundred Show on Saturday 10th July 2010.

Thick wooly coat in the middle of summer….phewwwwwww!

3 days old gosling sheltering from the midday sun.

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Tendring Hundred Show 2010 Images

This year even the weather was perfect at the Tendring Hundred Show, temperatures in the top 20C with a clear blue sky and a slight breeze. A perfect day out for the family. I have no idea about the numbers that attended the show but the car parks were certainly full and busy and so was the showground.

Tendring Hundred Show

The show is an annual agricultural event bringing together the farming community, the associated organizations, clubs and the general public. Lots of shows, events and displays in the various categories of  farm animals, (equestrian and livestock), prizes, nominations and a chance for the public to get a closer look at what farmers and smallholders do.

Shows included:

Poultry Show by the  Colchester Poultry Club
Rabbit Show by the Colchester & District Fur & Fancy Rabbit Club
Cavy (Guinea Pig) Show by the Suffolk Rabbit & Cavy Club
Rat Show by the National Fancy Rat Society
Pigeon Show
and….. a show for  all the boys……..Vintage Car Show by the Colchester Vintage Motor Club.

The show is a great place for youngster to learn about animals and farming (as well as the adults of course).

Tendring Show Tradition

The Tendring Show was founded way back in 1899 by  the Tendring Hundreds Farmers Club as a way for the local farmers to keep abreast of the latest technology that was available to them as well as a way to improve stock rearing.

Tendring Hundred Show Images

Below are a few images from the Tendring show on July 10th this year.

Does this taste nice?

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Online Media Production

Preparations are already on the way for the July 2010 Ycademy Seminar – a seminar that will focus entirely on Online Media Production.

Ycademy Seminar Workshops

The Ycademy Workshops will be  focusing on media production using some of the advanced professional tools available such as Camtasia Studio 7, Photoshop CS5, Soundbooth CS5, After Effects and Sony Vegas Pro.

Today’s young generation is being propelled into using media devices like never before, everything from mobile phones to ipads. Everything has to be portable, everything on the move.

As any Internet Marketer knows, if you have a product to sell you need to be visible where there is most traffic, right up there on the high street. Where there is traffic there are sales. If the traffic is on portable media devices then we must be able to produce media that delivers our advertising to these applications. Mobile commerce (m-commerce) is very much a new trend still in its infancy stage with a few teething problems, however many big companies see it as the way we will be shopping in the future.

Ycademy Online Media Production Seminar

The Ycademy Online Media Production Seminar will guide all participants in the direction of online media production in all the training and workshops throughout the day.

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Ycademy Online Seminar July 2010

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Media Production Basics for Web Designers and Website Developers

The Ycademy Online Seminar in July 2010 is unique in as much as all participants will be working with some of the most advanced professional tools, such as Adobe Premier Pro, Sony Vegas Pro 9.0, Camtasia Studio 7, Photoshop CS5, Soundbooth CS5, After Effects CS5 and more.

This is a unique opportunity to learn how to produce media (text, sound, image, video) for different destination supports, from the iPhone G4, iPod, iPad to Blueray, passing through CD, DVD, Websites, YouTube, Facebook, WordPress and HDTV.

The Seminar guides participants through the technology and points towards cutting edge applications for multiple devices and supports.

The big picture and the vision of what future website development will be is the framework guiding the agenda of this exceptional Ycademy Online Seminar in July 2010.

Best of all: participants will be able produce HD media with family pictures and clips making events and memorable moments unforgettable.

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics. If you enjoyed reading the above, please consider following future tips and strategies by RSS reader, Email delivery, or Kindle subscription.

Monochrome Website Backgrounds

Semiomantics Evolution and Evo2 websites are media driven. Background images vitalize the sites. In order to keep a homogeneous appearance and to manage contrasts with overlay layers, I recommend to use mainly monochromatic background images.

The best source for backgrounds is photography.

Digital Photography -- Monochromatic Treatment

GlyFada Church Images

Glyfada Church Image in Sepia

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If possible, watch this clip in HD 720 p and blow it up to full-screen view.

I was surprised by the image quality on YouTube considering namely that the images used have been downsized from an original 4000 x 3000 pixels to 1200 pixels wide and the file size of each picture is max. 100 kb compared to the original 4.65 MB jpeg output from the camera.

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Ycademy Facebook Seminar

Following up on the work that we did in Facebook during the Ycademy Facebook Seminar I could not help but notice a very intriguing post by Yorgo Nestoridis, an invitation to come and join in in a bit of fun.

Ycademy Facebok Seminar Fun 

Of course, like most people, I  just love to have a bit fun so I accepted his invitation. While enjoying a bit of messing around this little snippet caught my eye so I just had to do something with it!

Enjoy!

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Ycademy Facebook Seminar

Following up on the work that we did in Facebook during the Ycademy Facebook Seminar I could not help but notice a very intriguing post by Yorgo Nestoridis, an invitation to come and join in in a bit of fun.

Ycademy Facebok Seminar Fun 

Of course, like most people, I  just love to have a bit fun so I accepted his invitation. While enjoying a bit of messing around this little snippet caught my eye so I just had to do something with it!

Enjoy!

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New Facebook Drawing Board

You may remember my drawing board which for a while was on display on my site?

Well, you can find it now on Facebook on a special page: HERE

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Best Facebook Drawing Board

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Best Facebook Drawing Board 2

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Children Learn by Watching

It never ceases to amaze me how much children learn just by watching adults.  They also grasp things very quickly. My grandson just by watching me at the computer has already understood that when I  move the mouse or hit the keys things happen,  so for his next trick he tries to do the same. Rather than mess up my work, this is where Oli’s Fun House comes into play.

Oli’s Fun House

Oli’s Fun House is my grandsons own play area online, totally safe where  I have full control of the content, full control of what he sees.  The site is suitable for his age group with a mix of images, some that he is already familiar with, all geared to help him learn and to build confidence and familiarity with a computer. [For today's young  generation computers, mobiles, ipods and ipads are the everyday tools they are surrounded by.] Included in the Fun House is an area where he can play with the mouse and see a very visual effect online, great for developing hand and eye co-ordination. I will also be including music and games on the site in the near future.

Oli’s Fun House is still a work in progress and more categories will be added as well and the images changed over time. It’s been a real joy creating the Fun House, it’s lighthearted and fun but finding time to work on this project is pretty difficult sometimes  for as most parents and grandparents know, children are time consuming one way or another.

Flash Web Design

Oli’s Fun House is based on the Semiomantics Evolution Script  which focuses totally on visual communication through various forms of media, such as images, audio and video. The content of such a Flash Web Site is provided by the customer and elaborated in collaboration with a web designer – a Semiomantics Certified Consultant who will then embed text and media into the flash environment.  Flash Web Design and Flash Intros are available at the Small Business Shop or  you can contact me here to discuss your project.

The Evolution Script is very flexible and can be adapted to most any purpose, whether personal or commercial. In today’s world of visual expression and communication flash websites are a very evocative way to capture a target audience. ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’ !

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Ycademy Facebook Seminar

It seems everyone is talking about Facebook these days! Even at Ycademy.

So many people just seem to hang out on Facebook. There are many Social Network sites but Facebook appears to be one of those more popular ones. Once logged in you will notice how many different features there are apart from the usual profile form to fill in. You can get totally lost and confused among about all the various settings and applications that there are and the countless possibilities.

Ycademy Seminar

This months Ycademy Seminarfocuses on Facebook as well as on the the recent changes. As Facebook’s global dominance grows among the Social Networking sites,[Facebook aims to reach a billion users] its certainly a site to take seriously if you are marketing online. To this end any service provider using this facility to facilitate an professional presence there must keep abreast of all the changes.

Facebook, when used efficiently, has the potential for professional promotion of any service or product with high visibility and cutting the advertising budget. The Ycademy Seminar will explain it all.

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YORGOO on Facebook

YORGOO will soon be available on Facebook. As we prepare our Ycademy June Seminar focusing on Facebook, we will test new Facebook features and applications to provide YORGOO subscribers and namely YORGOO Pros with the most amazing and effective Facebook Pages. We call it: Best Facebook Pages.

Best Facebook Pages for YORGOO Subscribers

Most YORGOO Subscribers are also using Facebook. However, instead of promoting their own interests, the vast majority of Facebook users merely help to build facebook and the riches of third parties.

Truthful to our principles, we have spent some time to figure out, how our friends could take advantage of Facebook and let Facebook work for us, instead of the other way around.

The secret is more in the way we do things than what we actually do. If you have a business or a service to promote and if you want to target your marketing using Facebook or if you are looking for new customers from the cold market, then the Ycademy Seminar is the ideal starting point. Learn how to serve your customers with the hottest Facebook pages, build the most eye-catching features and use the most advanced promo-tools.

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Best Facebook Pages by YORGOO

Early Birds: become a Fan of YORGOO on Facebook from HERE

Get in Control of your Facebook Content

This is the most important step to independence: get in control of your content. By hosting your content externally and using Facebook just as the donkey carrying you through the desert, you do exactly that. Better: you are now promoting your own brand, domain and links, while you use Facebook as a mere showcase.

If tomorrow you decide to shift away from Facebook, your work is not lost, you continue to promote the same links and you remain in control of your content.

The Ycademy June Seminar is the most spectacular eye-opener for online marketers, drilling down to the blunt realities of a system which based on FUD and hype, shine and bling distracts the attention from essentials to reach financial goals. You can do it too and we will show you exactly how!

Contact Bianca Gubalke about the Ycademy seminar:

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics. If you enjoyed reading the above, please consider following future tips and strategies by RSS reader, Email delivery, or Kindle subscription.

Best RSS Facebook Page

Feeding your blog content to your Facebook wall has been possible for quite a while. The new Best Rss Facebook Page by Semiomantics allows to publish your blog content to facebook without giving up any control or rights .

Semiomantics Best FB Feed is a flash component which can be embedded in a Facebook page. A first draft can be seen HERE.

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Best Facebook RSS Feed Page

More soon.

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Best Facebook Pages by Semiomantics

In preparation of our Facebook Seminar we are having fun with Facebook and various contents for Facebook Pages. The goal being to build for every purpose the best Facebook Page.

Best Facebook Page Styles

Today a gallery resulting from a style study:

The Ycademy online Seminar which will take place this coming week-end will show participants how to build the best Facebook Pages with most any content.

To find out more, please contact Bianca Gubalke:

Author: Yorgo Nestoridis, Media Marketing & Publishing, Founder of YORGOO Publishing, YORGOO Press and Semiomantics. If you enjoyed reading the above, please consider following future tips and strategies by RSS reader, Email delivery, or Kindle subscription.

Children Learning

We all know that’s children love to play and have fun! It’s the way kids learn. It all starts when they are really tiny as babies, even if it doesn’t look like anything to us, they are exploring their new world. There’s so much to learn and they absorb it all like a sponge. 

Children Learning through Play 

I have taken great pleasure in watching my grandson  over the past year explore his new world, everything is so fascinating! It has to be touched, tasted, shaken, rattled, listened to. A world full of wonders. It’s learning through play. They watch, they copy.  They play with the most mundane things even a crumb of the floor. Its really fascinating for us adults too to just stand back and watch, it never ceases to amaze me what they pick up from us and copy in their play.

Oli’s Fun House

My grandson has watched me work at the computer, fascinated by  the colours and the flickering screen. He’s now at an age where he wants to climb up on my lap and copy what I do. His curiosity and his eagerness to learn has inspired me to create his own flash website, a Fun House where I can be in control of what he sees,  what he learns and where he can have some FUN!

So, welcome to the first draft of Oli’s Fun House and watch this space for more to come.

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