Once the image is generated, you can view it in the image generation feed. By hovering, you are presented with options to download, unzoom, remove background, upscale, use for image to image, edit in canvas and delete the image.

Prompt Generation Feature

While in the AI Image Generation Tool, click on the “Prompt Generation” heading, then select the number of prompt you want to generate.

Enter a basic concept for a prompt you want to ideate on and then click ‘Ideate’, once the prompts are generated, you can generate directly from here by clicking on ‘Generate’ to the right of the prompt.

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Microsoft recently announced its acquisition of Clipchamp, a company offering web-based video creation and editing software that allows anyone to put together video presentations, promos or videos, that will now replace video editing in Windows Photos app. 

How Clipchamp works 

Clipchamp’s online video editor equips you with essential editing tools. You can cut, trim, crop, rotate, split, loop, zoom in and out, speed up or slow down, add or remove audio and even add filters and transitions to videos.

Record your camera and screen: 

Easily make screen recordings and edit them into tutorial videos, virtual meetings, presentations, and even reaction videos.

Captivating stock video and audio: 

Search our library of curated themed stock collections to select the perfect song, sound effect, image, or video to complete your creations. There are millions of royalty-free and paid stock options to choose from.

Beginner-friendly templates, made by designers: 

Create professional videos with no experience in minutes using free video templates. Customize your template with videos, text, branding, and background music. From YouTube gaming to sales, choose from thousands of video templates for any industry.

Special tools for creators: 

• Green screen video editor: Amaze your viewers with the background replace feature. Use chroma key effects to quickly replace parts of a video and add overlays.
• Meme maker: Create and share looped videos and entertaining GIFs.
• Try text-to-speech: Create lifelike voiceovers for your videos using our 170 AI voices. Choose from a selection of feminine, masculine and neutral tones in different accents in 70 languages.

Create a video your way 

Record a video: Securely record your webcam and screen, edit mistakes and create automatic subtitles.

Upload a video: Import videos, photos and other media in a variety of formats from your computer, mobile or OneDrive.

Choose stock or video templates: Select designer video templates or start fresh with royalty-free videos and music.

Enhance and elevate your video 

Free AI voiceovers and subtitles: Create a video voiceover in 400+ voices or generate automatic subtitles in 140 languages.

Effects and overlays: Achieve studio-like effects with filters, transitions, overlays, animated text, music and stickers.

Video brand kit: Create branded videos with your logo, special font and brand’s colour palette.

Auto subtitle generator  

Create engaging and accessible videos with subtitles in any language.

Enable global viewers enjoy your videos in their chosen language  

Tip: Download your video transcript in Clipchamp, then reuse it as a blog or social media content.    

Make training videos easily accessible to all viewers, especially for people with a disability  

Polish meeting recordings and make them easy to skim, search and review   

Reinforce video lessons to support every student’s learning style.

Tip: Increase your video accessibility by overlaying sign language interpretation and adding ASL stickers. 

Visit https://clipchamp.com/en/subtitle-generator/

Templates 

Create professional looking videos in minutes with Clipchamp’s templates. Explore our range of YouTube intro templates, YouTube channel subscribe panels & social media handle templates. Ready to use – no experience needed.

Visit https://clipchamp.com/en/blog/create-videos-templates/

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Internet hacking is someone gaining access to your internet credentials. This leads to them being able to log in to your accounts and devices and be able to also access your personal information stored in those places.

This can be dangerous as your information can be stolen/leaked, hackers can log into your banking apps leading to theft as well as holding your accounts/devices for ransom, hackers can gain access to your private information and sell it to big companies for advertising purposes or hackers just simply want to cause a disturbance.

If you do not want this happening to you, here are the best ways to stay cyber secure

• Use strong passwords.

If you are setting a password for an online account or device, try and make one that is unique and does not include any public details of yourself including your name or birthday. A good way to make a unique password is to chose a word and break it up with different numbers and symbols to replace some of the letters, eg: instead of ‘hello’, use ‘h3ll0!’. Always remember to NEVER store the password to your devices and accounts on the device, if you must, write it down on paper and store it somewhere safe only you have access to.

• Activate Two-Factor Authentication (2FA).

2FA allows you to add an extra layer of security with your password. You will get a unique one time password, a link or a secret code sent to your mobile or email address upon every log in to your accounts or for online banking, any time you go to make a transaction. There are also free third-party apps like Google Authenticator and Microsoft Authenticator that aid in enabling 2FA on mobile devices including all apps installed on the device.

• Recognise Spam Emails.

Spam emails have common flaws you need to look out for to protect you from a cyber attack.

1. Check the sender’s email address. If the email is very long and unusual, look out! If someone is claiming to be an employee from a big corporation, the email will always have the company name as their domain (‘@apple.com’, ‘@amazon.com’). It would never have a generic domain like ‘@gmail.com’ or ‘@hotmail.com’.
2. Check for punctuation or grammar mistakes. If the email is filled with poor grammar and vocabulary, do not ignore it. Established companies have strong standards regarding their online communication. This makes it uncommon for an email or post to have grammatical errors. So if you see these errors, be aware.
3. Is the email too good to be true? If the email is stating you have won a brand new iPhone with no information on how or why, it is most likely a scam. Scam emails commonly say you have won something to entice you to click on any attachments leading to a cyber breach.

• Use a VPN.

Using a VPN is another tool you can install to help keep you safe. A VPN will do a number of things including:

1. Secure encryption – hides your online activities even on public networks.
2. Disguising Location – hides your location from being accessed.
3. Prevent Data Theft – stops your personal data being taken and sold.
4. Accessing Blocked content – a VPN allows you to change your location to anywhere in the world to view content blocked in your country.

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1. Click Create and setup your new shared bookings page

     2. Invite Staff who will have options to book appointments with you.

3. Setup your booking time service schedules of availability

4. Choose who can make bookings with you

5. Click Create and you’re good to start accepting online bookings.

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Pheed much like Facebook and Twitter allows you to follow people and people follow you back. You can comment on people’s posts and they can comment on yours. Nothing new I hear you say, but wait there’s more (free set of steak knives not included)…unlike its competitors, Pheed allows you to post audio files as well as videos up to four hours in length. You can upload images of any size and naturally, plain text posts are also allowed.

Sound good so far? Ok well here’s the kicker, Pheed grants users complete control over their posted content by putting it behind a ‘paywall’. Users can charge followers a set fee of $1.99 up to $34.99 a month to view their feed. Naturally, Pheed gets a cut of the profits. The network also lets users watermark their content as a preventative measure against plagiarism or theft.

The celebrity uptake has been pretty quick. Celebs like Leona Lewis, Paris Hilton, Miley Cyrus, Slash and Chloe Moretz are already using the service. But soon you might have to pay to follow them.

Signup is easy and takes only seconds to start your account, using an email address or logging in using either your Facebook or Twitter you are ready to start Pheeding.

Pheed has been the number one most downloaded free app in the App Store under the social networking category, outranking both Facebook and Twitter.

Head on over and try it for yourself, who knows your popularity and inventiveness may just earn you a schilling or two!

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1. Introduction
So I’m guessing if you’re reading this you’ve entered the world of 140 character based social networking and like many questions I get asked you’re wondering …. how does this twitter thing work?

Well in short twitter is a short messaging service available to registered users to communicate with your followers and those you follow, limited to 140 text based characters, including url links.

140 characters, well that doesn’t seem like much?

Well actually you will be surprised how much information you can squeeze into 140 characters or less and if you have lots to say you’ll find ways of shortening your messages much the same way you currently do when sending mobile phone text messages.

So much like any good social media marketing strategy you should have a good plan or at least an idea of what you want to achieve using twitter. Primarily I would imagine it is to get your business, product, service or brand more exposure on the internet to drive more customers to your website to garner more sales and clients …. hopefully you are nodding your head in agreement …. so lets continue.

2. Finding Followers
The key to getting your message out to the masses is by having people follow you, a good way to increase your followers is to follow other users, especially those in the same professional or those who offer similar products and services to you. Following these users will more than likely result in them following you back as they can relate to your business and therefore your tweets.

There are five ways of finding people, organisations or companies using twitter and that is by clicking the # Discover link located at the top of the page or simply perform a Search.

• Tweets – What’s happening now, tailored tweets based on popularity and interaction with those already ion your follower list
• Activity – A list of your followers activity, based on those they have followed, added as favourite or re-tweeted
• Who To Follow – Twitter accounts suggested for you based on who you follow and other suggestions of top tweeters etc
• Find Friends – Search your contacts for friends already on Twitter, or invite them via email services Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail etc
• Browse Categories – Browse a list of accounts based on categories such as Music, Sport, News, Fashion, Technology and more

Now that you’ve got a list of awesome followers, you will start to see their tweets presented in real-time on your timeline (clicking the Home link at top), you can now start communicating, replying and retweeting (we’ll cover this later on) any of these tweets at your leisure.

So why do I need followers anyway?
Well it seems logical that without any followers no one will see your tweets and thus your tweets will disappear into the ether. One easy way to gain followers is by tweeting your followers or in other words striking up a conversation, you will find most users on twitter are welcoming and happy to share tweets with you and more than likely to follow you back. Another way to gain users trust is to retweet their tweets, so you are effectively sharing their tweet with all of your followers and thus broadening the scope of exposure.

3. Good Tweeting Practices
As you know you are limited to 140 characters per tweet which includes your text message as well as any url links to websites or photos. So before we get to url shortening or photo uploading services lets go through sending a pretty standard tweet.

So here we have a standard tweet clearly advertising our business services, you will notice the use of the hash symbol # before the word webdesign. What is this you may ask? Well including a # before certain keyword text will create a hashtag in twitter.

3.1 So what’s so important about creating and using #Hashtags?
Creating and using hashtags can be very beneficial to your tweets, especially if you are tweeting about a hot topic or want to create an interest for other users to follow.

In this example we are using the hashtag of #webdesign everytime we tweet about website design or tweets in relation to our business, this then creates a searchable group of tweets featuring this hashtag for other users to find.

Hashtags can also be used to clearly define your products or services and in particular what your tweet is all about.

3.2 Hashtags and Trending Topics
Also you may have noticed on your home page a list of Trending Topics featuring hashtags and commonly used phrases, based on users tweets. This is a handy collection of topics currently being tweeted in twitter that you can view or also to find other users for which to follow.

Currently these trends are primarily based on tweets in North and South America, United Kingdom and Ireland, so for users in Australia selecting the Worldwide option is probably best. Trending Topics per region is still under development and you should start seeing more trends based in the Asia Pacific region once more users signup in those countries.

4. Associated Services
There is a plethora of websites available to use in conjunction with your twitter account, in fact nearly every major social networking site (eg: facebook, tumblr, linkedin, youtube) all allow you to connect your twitter, for posts made through these services that reflect in your tweets. In fact most notable websites, blogs and news services allow comment posting using your twitter account, so with this in mind let’s look at a handful of services that are beneficial to your business.

4.1 URL Shortening
OK now let’s take a look at URL shortening, why you would need it and the many services available.

There are many shortening services available to use, which all do a great job in reducing large URLs, but today I’m going to concentrate on bit.ly simply due to the fact it’s the one we use.

As you can see by this tweet we have gone over our allotted 140 character limit and therefore are unable to post this message due to the length of our destination url. Considering we want to include a link to our website we can either attempt to modify the text or use a simple URL shortening service to a more manageable size.

We have found bit.ly to be a simple and easy to use service for shortening URLs in fact once you signup to their service and add your twitter account information you can tweet directly from their site. Also available are statistics on how many times the URL has been clicked, which can help ascertain response to your tweets essential in any marketing campaign.

So looking at the above tweet complete with hashtag and our shortened URL we can now safely post this message to our twitter, all with 8 characters to spare.

Available URL shortening services
Bit.ly – www.bit.ly
TinyURL – www.tinyurl.com

4.2 Photo/Image Uploading
So you want to include a picture with your tweets huh? Well considering twitter is a short messaging service, displaying photos in your tweets just doesn’t work, but don’t fret there are plenty of image uploading services that allow you to create a gallery of photos to include in your tweets.

Most services work pretty much the same and all connect to your twitter accounts, we like to use TwitPic simply due to its ease of use and its connectivity with iPhone and that you can upload direct from their website and post directly to your twitter.

Visiting the TwitPic [www.twitpic.com] website you will notice a ‘sign in with twitter’ icon, click this and enter your twitter account credentials to link both services. Once connected you can browse your hard drive, select individual photos, add text and then upload. This will then post direct to your twitter account with a url link to TwitPic for followers to view your image.

Available Photo/Image Uploading services
TwitPic – www.twitpic.com
Yfrog – www.yfrog.com
Plixi – www.plixi.com

4.3 Just for Fun
Twitter doesn’t have to be all serious and solely business centric, there are plenty of services available that we like to call ‘Just for fun’ these can either be web based or used on your smart phone, they include music players and song locators,

Available Just for Fun services
Blip.fm – www.blip.fm
Shazam – www.shazam.com

5. Retweeting and tips to getting your tweets retweeted
You may have noticed on your timeline tweets with the inclusion of the symbol and wondered what’s this? Well this my friends is a tweet that has been retweeted or shared by a user you follow, see example below.

So you maybe asking yourself how do I get my tweets retweeted? Well let me say that getting RT’s is no easy matter, in fact unless you are tweeting about breaking news or something of absolute importance you may find that this will never happen.

However, all is not lost, as you know twitter is a ‘social networking service’ and taking the time to be social here is one step towards you gaining exposure, appearing on follow fridays lists and even obtaining those all important retweets. We find many businesses setup a twitter and expect instant success, much the same as when their website goes online they want to be #1 on Google…but that’s another story altogether.

Obtaining trust from your followers takes time, much the same as any new business starting up in today’s competitive world takes time to establish itself. Gaining trust and confidence in your brand, product and services with potential clients’ works the same if it’s face to face or in the online stratosphere, it’s all about making connections, conversing and working hard to achieve positive end results.

One thing we advise all our clients managing their own twitter accounts is to converse with those your follow (hey even movie and rock stars reply back every once and a while). Sure anyone can go follow a bunch of users, hope they follow you back and then tweet like crazy, but to get the most out of twitter take the time to get to know those you follow and strike up a conversation or retweet one of their tweets especially if you find it entertaining, interesting or relevant, you will find over time that the favour will be returned.

5.1 So what’s so important about getting retweets anyway?
Well much like the pyramid schemes of old or the new notion of ‘paying it forward’ doing a good deed for others can benefit you greatly.

Lets look at this scenario, you send out a tweet to your followers about a new product or service with a link to your website and one of your followers who just happens to have 2000+ followers retweets your tweet, that effectively is giving you exposure to 2000 or more people who would not have normally seen your tweet and hey you never know you may even gain some followers due to this good deed.

So choose your retweets carefully, a RT is like a personal recommendation to your followers so make sure it’s relevant and not going to offend anyone as it may backfire and result in you losing followers.

6. Follow Friday
Each Friday you may have noticed a lot of #FollowFriday or #FF hashtags being sent by users worldwide. The Follow Friday trend has been around almost since the inception of Twitter and is still widely used today as a way to let your followers know about other users that you personally recommend.

When we want to get more users to follow our clients who use twitter we give the potential followers a ‘heads up’ if you like so at least they know why we are recommending them, so with that in mind here are a few examples how it works…

Example 1 – Mention what the company sells/produces
#FF our good friends @skof for exceptional quality Australian made Office Furniture and Office Chairs

Example 2 – Specify why they should follow this user
#FollowFriday @hatzijewels awesome information about Diamond Engagement and Wedding Ring care and cleaning

Example 3 – A personal recommendation
#FF some our best customers and people you can trust @sydneycars @tevansracing @lajollavr we totally recommend

Note: Keep in mind it’s important to start your tweet with the hashtag not just the username otherwise only the user and followers you share will be visible to the tweet,

7. Conclusion
To get twitter to work for you and your business a good rule of thumb is to login daily to check for any mentions of direct messages and remember to communicate with your followers as they will hopefully communicate with you and help promote your products and services via retweets and follow Friday recommendations.

Happy Tweeting!!

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One thing we are continually asked when launching new sites is “when will my site be on page one of Google?” well if we had a crystal ball we could probably tell you, but unfortunately we don’t (but secretly wish we did). What we do know however is that regular information posting and text additions to your website or blog will almost certainly increase your chances of ranking in these result pages.

So how do we achieve this? I hear you ask, well several years ago when we first started developing our own search engine optimisation campaign, we spend many dollars and hours on purchasing and reading valuable information from SEO Pioneers who had a proven track record in getting websites ranking in Google etc. All concurred that writing interesting and informative articles relating to your business, industry or field of expertise significantly increases your chances of ranking in search engine result pages.

So what is an article and how do I write one?

Well simply put, an article is a piece of well written text, that is informative and engaging to your visitors and generally includes keywords and links to pages within your site relative to the topic you are covering.

The benefits of writing and including articles in your own website or blog are quite simple in that the more content you include in your website with relative keywords, the more chances you have of jumping up the queue and to the all important first page of Google.

What if I’m not a good writer?

Not everyone is blessed with the gift of the pen or keyboard in this case, but don’t despair there are many excellent copywriting services available who work in conjunction with you help get your message across and simplify things by adding this all important content in the form of articles ready for you to post to your website or blog. For example our friends @ Brutal Pixie (brutalpixie.com) content write for many large and small scale organisations and websites and can easily produce quality copy ready for you to use. Tell em Bullie sent you…..

View our website design, search engine optimisation or social networking articles and stay tuned for upcoming posts on ways to increase readership and utilising web services in sharing your articles.

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What is a Sitemap?
Sitemaps are an easy way for viewers of your website to grab a quick snapshot of the pages contained within your site. Think of it as your website Index of pages. It’s also an invaluable way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling.

A time for discovery
Web crawlers commonly known as ‘spiders’ usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow crawlers that support Sitemaps to pick up all URLs in the Sitemap and learn about those URLs using the associated metadata. Use of Sitemaps does not guarantee that web pages are included in search engines, but provides hints for web crawlers to do a better job of crawling your site.

Where do I start?
The easiest way to create a Sitemap is a simple HTML document thats lists all the pages contained within the site or at least the major category pages if you have large site. Obviously the list of pages are hyperlinked to the relevent page within the site, therefore making it easier for yoru viewers to navigate your site.

Tip: Add a brief description of the page content after the linked text to help your viewers, for example rather than listing your About Us page as;

About Us

try this…

Company Profile Information – A complete introduction to our company and it’s employees

OK, where to now…
Ok so you have created your HTML Sitemap with links to all pages within your site…that’s great, your viewers will appreciate all the assistance they can get, but what about the search engines? Well fear not there is also a facility to upload your Sitemap information to Google, Yahoo etc for them to crawl your site and it’s by creating an XML Sitemap.

The easiest form of XML Sitemap creator tools around has to be XML-Sitemaps.com they offer a free XML and HTML creator tool that crawls your site and outputs a XML file ready for inclusion to Google etc. To access simply click here.

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