Topics Covered:

• {play 4:26}Welcome to our newly registered viewers.
• {play 8:05}Studio D on Day 1: a brief look at the space on our first day.
• {play 12:22}Feature: Creating visual memes for promoting your blog, product, web site or business on social media such as Facebook.
  • Get your hands on the GNU Image Manipulation Program at gimp.org.
  • The phrase we'll use for this demonstration: How many thorns in our own personal lives have prevented us from becoming jerks? – yet we despise the thorns. We don’t see them for what they really are.
  • Obtaining legal "free" (no cost) images using Google's image search and the Usage Rights filters. We chose a thorny situation by Robert S. Donovan, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0.
  • Ensuring the dimensions are appropriate for memes.
  • Adding text to the image.
  • Adding an em dash can be done by:
    • Ascii: ALT-0151
    • Cheat: Copy and paste from Wikipedia
    • Linux Unicode: CTRL+SHIFT+U, 2014, Enter (this great tip revealed by keckeckec in the chat room)
  • Throwing design standards out the window to make certain words stand out by enlarging the font.
  • Adding a vignette above our image to create a good contrast between the picture and our text.
  • Adding a drop shadow to your text.
  • Moving our drop shadow using the move tool and keyboard cursors.
  • Adding a web URL to the meme to ensure it is always included with the share.
  • Saving an XCF file in GIMP ensures you can later edit the layers.
  • Exporting a JPG or PNG file will be needed in order to share your image on social media.
• {play 43:12}Top Stories from the Category5.TV Newsroom
  • Behaviour-logging software for smartphones detect when a thief is using the phone, and shuts down accordingly.
  • Facebook is fighting a US court order in which it was forced to hand over user data.
  • Mobile app users are selling their public parking spaces on a “black market”, and San Fransico won’t have it.
  • Sky cars are going to be built in Tel Aviv.
• {play 55:31}Taking a look at our viewer location map.