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A motivational speaker just might inspire you!

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When you are struggling to set up your business, or pursue a new line of work, or face challenges and difficulties in your professional or business life, motivation can be in short supply when you head to the office each morning. It’s sometimes difficult to remember the reason you wanted to do it this way, or that. All you see is the high mountain in front of you.

It’s at times like these that you need to find your inspiration again. You need to rediscover your original vision. You need to refocus on the longer term goals, and forget the day to day drudgery. On days like these, and not a few others, a motivational speaker may be your salvation in the ‘business’ and ‘career’ sense of the word! Either in book form, or in person, a date with Mark Hughes might be just the medicine the doctor ordered.

This post has been inspired and motivated by Mark Hughes!

Gallarific: does this flexible gallery script make your gallery terrific?

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Over the past few years, I’ve experimented with three different PHP photogalleries: Coppermine, Gallery, and some of the various PHP plugins available for Wordpress. Each of them has strong points, but weakness that make them problematic.

Coppermine is poor at uploads, while Gallery has more features, including an appropriate tool to upload stuff (but it’s a bugger to configure in an attractive way). I don’t like the Wordpress plugins because most of them have very limited features on the other hand, they’re fine for a blog, but nothing more. They certainly can’t handle larger photo websites… Enter a new PHP image and photo gallery script – Gallarific.

I’ve been trying out the demo at their website and it is very snappy by comparison with some of my experiments before. Though there are few themes yet, I suspect that the software will easily manage themes. There is even a simple PHP script to check that your server can run the software.

If you have an existing blog or website, you should find integration relatively straightforward, using the in-built template editor. Given the efficiency of the scripts, any uploaded photos will be resized for three views: thumbnail, medium view and large view. This should ensure that your gallery loads much faster as images will be saved in more appropriate sizes.

Additional features will include zipping larger numbers of photos, tags, search function, gallery stats, slideshows, commenting (a la Wordpress) with approval, visitor albums, and registered accounts, so that other users may share the upload and access of your website.

It is not Opensource, nor free, but if you are looking for an efficient alternative, and you don’t worry so much about the financial side of running your website (perhaps your website revenue supports such a purchase), then this might be an appropriate way to run a larger photo gallery on a shared server.

This post has been brought to you by Gallarific.com.

Who can wait? I want my new mobile now!

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Well, there’s quite a hullabaloo about the Apple iPhone coming on the market, and it is indeed a cool looking phone, but who wants to wait until October 2007 just to have the privilege to queue up in line and wait for hours to purchase one! Indeed, the phone is technologically cool, quite expensive, and its full Internet access will entail a hefty bill, as well.

For those of us with neither the patience nor the money to wait for an Apple iPhone, I’d suggest finding a good deal at Mobile 360, where you’ll be able to find the latest AVAILABLE cool models and/or great deals with good calling plans. I’d think that this website would be a great place to buy.

I like the features that can help search for phones by the features. Last time I bought a phone, it was kind of a hit or miss affair, as I didn’t have much access to comparison features. The result was I bought one with an underpowered camera, and half an MP3 player. I think this search site could have helped me choose a better model.

Nowadays, I’d certainly be looking for a phone with features, such as email, browsing, SD card support, etc., like these phones, Wi-Fi and Windows OS capability so I can connect anywhere with networks! And more to the point, it’ll help an investorblogger keep up with email, investments, and even allow you to post on your blogs, with photos and text and movies! Now that would be a good investment.

This post has been sponsored by Mobile360. And boy! Am I drooling!