The Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux) extension supports up to four unique signatures for each address you’ve designated. Signatures are automatically inserted in both new messages and in replies and forwards.

According to the Blank Canvas website, here are some of the features:

•    Works for Compose Mail, Reply, and Forward

•    Support for single or multiple email addresses

•    Create a different signature for each email address you use in your Gmail account

•    Supports up to four signatures per address

•    Real-time signature preview while editing signature HTML

•    Signature automatically inserted into message above (or optionally below) quoted text

•    Support for special characters

•    Easy setup and configuration interface

Do you use the Gmail Signatures extension?  If so, we’d love to hear your feedback!

(article originally posted on Pomeganda.com)

If you are a brand that offers an interactive service or product that is relevant to a target demographic of social media fans and fanatics, you might want to consider taking a moment to reevaluate your current online presence in order to move forward in 2010.  How can you do this?  Well, first let’s take a look at a few of the top social brands of 2009 and see what they are doing right.  According to Virtue’s SMI, iPhone, Disney, CNN, MTV, NBA, iTunes, Wii, Apple, Xbox and Nike rounded out the top 10 social brands in 2009, respectively.

Obviously there is something to be said about large brands like iPhone, MTV and Disney, whose massive online presence will dominate conversations on sites like Twitter and Facebook easily and without much promotion or buzz.  People are already following these brands and wondering what they’re up to, so it’s only natural that they would measure highly on a social media scale of measurable conversation.  This is not to say that all is lost for a smaller, less renowned brand as long as it already has an established presence on the web.  The key to success in moving forward with brand socialization is changing faster than you can say “let’s chat!” and now is the time to reevaulate your brand’s social outreach for the coming year.

There are a few crucial steps you can take to make your brand more social in 2010.  Many of these include solutions that adapt to the ever-changing method of how we access information on the web, mobile and world wide.  Facebook fan pages are becoming dynamic rather than just a place to update real-time status with simple news and information.  The key to socialization here is interactivity and we believe that this list of straightforward suggestions will help keep your brand moving in a social direction for the new year.

Offer a Free iPhone Application

Develop a fun, engaging and branded iPhone application that can be given out as an incentive for signing up for a company mailing list.

Make the Mailing List Extremely Accessible

Enable users to opt in to receive your marketing offers & news directly from your Facebook page or Website.

Create Polls

Let users interact with simple, fun, multiple choice questions and see results in real-time

Offer Surveys

Give users the chance to weigh in on various topics for brand insights

Utilize Slide Shows

Create a photo slide show of customized content, complete with variable speed, transitions, background music and full branding

Offer a Built-In Twitter–Chat Application

Incorporate a branded Twitter-Chat application directly on your website or blog that allows other Twitter users to chat in real time.

Offer Games and Trivia

Offer branded games and trivia that lets users compete for status, leader board rankings or just for fun

Branded HD Video Player & Playlist

Add high-definition videos to your website or blog, complete with branded video player watermarking

Sweepstakes

Run a contest on Facebook with in-page registration that will make it easier for users to participate and recommend entry to their Facebook friends.  Promote on Twitter as well as other social networks.

Couponing

Reward users for taking actions like answering a survey, uploading media or sending a gift and add extra incentives for every Facebook fan or Twitter follower that also signs up.

This is where you come in.  I need votes for the People’s Choice award!!  So… if you have a moment to check out the six photos I’ve submitted, please choose your favorite and vote!!  I would really appreciate it.  I hope you enjoy them. *Click on the thumbnail image to go to the voting page, and on the voting page you can scroll your mouse over the image for a larger version.

You can take pictures in six different resolutions (2,048×1,536, 1,600×1,200, 1,280×960, 640×480, and 320×240 pixels), five white balance presets, and five color effects. It also has three focusing modes: autofocus, macro mode, or manual mode, the last of which lets you pick one of seven points on the screen to focus in on. You can toggle the flash on or off, adjust a self timer if you want, or select one of three shutter sounds (there’s also a silent option).

The camera also has a few special shot modes: Smile shot, which automatically takes a picture when a person smiles; Panorama, which stitches together five photos shot from left to right; Intelligent shot, which automatically adjusts the white balance and color saturation based on the surrounding environment; and Facial Makeover mode, which removes all blemishes and unsightly marks from a person’s face. There’s also a name card reader mode that is specially tuned to take pictures of business cards and then extracts the contact information and saves it in your phone. I don’t really get a lot of business cards, but I think I’m going to start asking people for them all the time now.

I’ve been using my camera phone more than my beloved Canon Digital Rebel XTi (although I plan on carrying it around a lot this weekend when I’m in downtown Boston). I upgraded the phone about a week ago and have since taken a lot of random photos playing with the various features. It’s been a bit of a learning process but I’m having fun and some of the result photos have been a bit surprising and unexpected. Also, none of these photos have been altered in any way, shape or form. They are coming to you straight from my cell phone to the internet.

Self Portrait: Cloves, Car rides and friends

Buddha the Cat: Living on the Edge

You can practically feel the WHOOSH as they skate around the rink.

Panorama of Venice Beach with San Gabriel fire smoke in the background.

Fear. Can you smell it?

Sleep with your eyes open.

There's nothing quite like getting up close and personal with creepy crawlies.

Happy dogs mean happy people.

Lynch Park, Beverly, MA

Panorama of the rocky Beverly coast: Lynch Park, Beverly, MA

Peace and serenity where the sea meets the green and the trees. Lynch Park, Beverly, MA

Danvers State Insane Asylum was built in 1878 on top of Hawthorne Hill. The property, having been abandoned for almost 30 years and right after the psychological indie thriller Session 9 was filmed there, the whole estate was recently converted into an apartment complex, leaving the main Kirkbride building intact. In the initial stages of refurbishing the inside of the building, there was a fire that destroyed much of the new construction. The damage has since been fixed and the apartments are now inhabited. Was the fire a coincidence? I'll let you be the judge of that.

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Danvers State in the afternoon sun. Danvers, MA

The dog days of Summer.

It's always good to be prepared.

Original article cross-posted from Examiner.com.

OutFest 2009 the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival is the oldest continuous film festival in Los Angeles, featuring 182 films and videos from 25 countries in 7 different venues over 11 days starting July 9th and ending July 19th. Outfest will dazzle Los Angeles with 87 separate public programs – 6 galas, 68 features, 10 short film programs and 13 panels and special events.

On Thursday, July 9, Outfest will launch with the presentation of the 13th Annual Outfest Achievement Award preceding the Opening Night Gala film LA MISSION starring Benjamin Bratt.

There are many incredible movies, both short features and full-length that will be presented at this years festival.  I will be featuring several must-see film picks for this year’s festival, starting with Guest House Films‘/Rob Williams’ fourth film in just under three years, the delightfully sexy romp Make the Yuletide Gay.

Make the Yuletide Gay stars openly-gay Canadian star Adamo Ruggiero (Degrassi: The Next Generation) at the Regency Fairfax Theatre on 7/14 & 7/18. The film recently had it’s sold-out World Premiere in Toronto, and practically sold out its U.S. Premiere at FilmOut San Diego.

Make the Yuletide Gay takes place at college where homo heartthrob Gunn lives out loud with his boyfriend Nathan (Adamo Ruggiero). But in the eyes of his wacky parents, Gunn is Olaf Gunnunderson, a devoted son who is 100% straight. So when Nathan shows up for a surprise holiday visit, Gunn’s worlds collide in an explosion of tinsel, eggnog and shocking revelations!

Fab magazine called it “a potential homo holiday classic,” while the festival said that “audiences were laughing so hard throughout the film they drowned out some of the best lines of dialogue!”  No matter how you look at it, Make the Yuletide Gay has been getting rave reviews across the board;   the first screening on the 14th has already sold out . The film has also already won four Audience Awards from FilmOut San Diego and Seoul LGBT Film Festival. It will also be screening in Philadelphia, North Carolina and some other cities as well.  If you’re interested in seeing Make the Yuletide Gay, you can get your tickets here. Follow Outfest on Twitter.