Order Pizza Online to Save Time and Money

Reading today's title you may be thinking what's really techie about pizza? Well I'll tell you. If your house is like mine on Friday night then you already know that no one wants to cook after a long week. Pizza is normally our meal of choice, but I use to hate sitting on the phone and asking what are the specials and feeling rushed to explain exactly what I wanted. So I started ordering my pizza's online, and I haven't looked back since. Ordering your pizza online provides a huge convenience. You can visually see all the options, repeat your last order, set an order for up to 3 week in advance (different sites vary on advanced ordering), order via text message and the best part saving money with coupons codes.

Online sites like RetailMeNot  always have coupon codes, and there users let you know how effect those codes have been. If you haven't already sign up and get a free account on your favorite pizza site or sites. Then make your order. On the checkout page you will see a box normally at the bottom for coupon or discount code. Go to Google and type in Pizza Hut coupon code,  Domino's coupon code or whatever your hungry for (This step can be done first). See which code is best, copy it into the discount box and your done. Never pay more for pizza again, and save yourself time in the process. In the spirit of Follow Friday please take a moment and join me on Facebook.

ReTweet A Hero

Normally I'm focused on any thing dealing with technology, but today I wanted to take a moment and ask all of you to honor  Staff Sgt.Salvatore Guinta. As a 16 year veteran of the United States Navy and having done a tour in Iraq and the Persian Gulf I understand the scarfice our troops make everyday. I also see things trend on Twitter that are not news worthy. So today I would like everyone to Retweet (message below) SSGT Guinta to the top of Twitter for his outstanding service to the United States of America, and for those who lost there lives he was trying to save.

 I have mad respect for Staff Sgt. Salvatore Guinta, who will receive the Medal of Honor, http://unhub.com/CQTW #RetweetAHero

Backup Blogger Post with WordPress

For the new blogger, blogging can be exciting and filled with challenges. You may be inspired to jump into the mix of how to blogs, but the most important part of any blog is content. Google's Blogger is a very popular platform used by a lot of bloggers today mainly because it's easy to use. Something that a lot of beginning bloggers may overlook is the importance of backing up their content. I've been blogging for about two years or so and now and I'm thinking of moving from Blogger to WordPress.

Exploring this process made me realize that you can import your blogger blog into WordPress very easily. Simply sign up for a WP blog. Once that's done in the main control panel  under Tools click import. Select Blogger at the top of the page. Type in your blogger address. Follow the remaining steps and your done. Now just in case something ever happens to your blogger page you still have all your data.

The WordPress method gives you a copy in the cloud, but we are going to make a local copy just to be safe. Simply go to the Settings Tab in your Blogger account. Click Export blog, download and your done.  Periodically you will want to go back to your WordPress account and redo the import process to update subsequent post you do on Blogger. I hope this helps Happy Blogging.

Make Your Website Mobile in 60 seconds

In the last few years the way we use our sell phones has rapidly change. People now have internet access everywhere. Take advantage of this by making your site mobile. Simply go to the Google Mobilizer  type in your web address (choose to hide images if you wish) and your done!

Now this process will create a long URL and who's going to remember that? To make things nice and tidy let's use UnHub. (previous post). This will give you a shorter address making it easier to remember your mobile site (ex. Mysite). By using the UnHub bar you can link your other sites as well (repeat previous steps to your make other sites mobile), and the bar will remain at the top of the page even when clicking on links within the page. This may not be the fanciest way, but it will allow mobile phones to render your site easily, and its all free. Give it a try and let me know what you think.

What is Your Online Identity?

Have you Googled yourself? Do you know what the internet says about you? You don’t have to be a famous to have an online presence. I remember for my 16th birthday my mom got me my own phone line and my name was in the phone book. I was excited! If anyone wanted to find me they could look me up. For the younger generation this was the equivalent of getting your first cell phone in the late 80’s. Times have changed but the purpose has not. Today Google is pretty much the world phone book and controlling your online identity has never been more important. If someone Google’s your name what do you want them to find? Who the internet says you are or what you say? For some, tackling the internet may seem like a daunting task, but it’s pretty simple to start a blog, setup a Facebook profile, or register a domain name.

Everyone should own their own domain name (yourname.com). Employers today are definitely Googling the people they hire and employee's currently working for them. Sites like 1and1 and Yahoo domains offer some great deals on your domain purchases. Once you get a domain you’re going to need to point it somewhere. You don’t have to do anything fancy you can simply point it at your facebook profile. So when someone types in web address (yourname.com) it will redirect them to your facebook page. In the facebook settings there is an option to make yourself searchable. Make sure that is on if you wish for people to find you.

Maybe you already have an online presence and just want to organize what you already have. This can be done with unhub.com (previous post ). They allow you to make a profile bar that can display all of your websites or profiles that’s easy to set up and free. They also provide url shortening as well.

Another great service you can point your web address to is Flavors.me . I use this as Flavors for my blog and twitter stream. You can try this for free, but to add your domain it’s $20 per year. I think it's well worth it though. We can’t talking about online identity without talking about Google. Google allows you to create a free profile and a personal page. They also provide a great feature by allowing people to contact you without revealing your email address. These are just a few resources you can use to jump start your web presence. Whether your the average Joe or a super blogger in the making controlling your online presence is the first place to start. Do you have any services you like? Let me know I’d love to hear about them.