5th St Gallery http://5thstgallery.com Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:50:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Selling Your Art Online http://5thstgallery.com/selling-your-art-online/ http://5thstgallery.com/selling-your-art-online/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:50:24 +0000 admin http://5thstgallery.com/?p=10 If you are reading this post, then you are probably familiar with at least some of the opportunities that seem to be available online. Every day you’ll find someone claiming to be a financial guru who can teach you how to make a lot of money in a very short time. While some of these posts really do provide valuable information for someone who is prepared to put in a lot of hard work and wait patiently for the rewards. One of the best ways of working online is to set up a website and advertise a skill or talent that you already have. If you are one of those people who are skilled at painting, why not sell your art online? You will need some cardboard postal tubes for sending posters or paintings and mailing boxes for postcard size prints of your work.

Setting Things Up

One you have set up your website, which is easy to do with a domain name, hosting account and the WordPress platform you will find all the information you need online. If you’ve ever bought or sold anything on EBay then you’ll have an idea how these things are done. If you think your work is good enough and you display it well on your website you will need a source of packaging materials to get your work out to buyers. You may get some large orders for postcards of some of your work, it’s what a lot of working artists do, and you may find it cheaper to buy postal boxes wholesale. If you are offering full size posters, and people do postal tubes are ideal for ensuring that the poster is protected and should arrive safely with the buyer.

How Much Time

It’s best to decide early on how much time you can afford to devote to selling your artwork online. If all you are looking for is a bit of extra income on the side then you may only need a few postal boxes a week to send your stuff out to interested buyers. Some working artists actually take commissions online creating original portraits from photographs that buyers send them – but many of them employ someone else to deal with the business end of things.

]]> http://5thstgallery.com/selling-your-art-online/feed/ 0 Why I Desire the HTC HD! http://5thstgallery.com/why-i-desire-the-htc-hd/ http://5thstgallery.com/why-i-desire-the-htc-hd/#comments Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:10:57 +0000 admin http://5thstgallery.com/?p=6 The HTC Desire HD is a smartphone capable of handling extremely high quality 720p video. It is a very powerful choice, a real step up from the regular Desire and a genuine alternative to the iPhone. Here we will consider the various features of the HTC Desire HD, especially its improvements over the regular model.

Higher detail:

Compared to the regular Desire’s camera, the HTC Desire HD ramps up the functionality big-time, with a full 8 megapixels of resolution instead of just 5. This produces images with the huge size of 3264×2448 pixels: all the detail you could ever need. Also, the flash improves over the lower-spec model by incorporating a dual-LED design instead of a single LED.

Higher storage:

Although both phones use a microSD slot suitable for up to 32GB storage, the HTC Desire HD ups its internal storage by a factor of three, holding up to 1.5GB of ringtones, contact details, messages and so on all in the phone itself, independent from any external memory cards.

Longer battery life:

The HTC Desire HD has a colossal standby time of up to 490 hours and you can talk for over 9 hours on 2G and over 5 on 3G. This is an improvement of nearly half all-round, and is due not to a larger battery which would weigh more and be more cumbersome – in fact in milli-amp-hours the new battery is slightly lower at 1230 mAh compared to the old 1400mAh – but through clever and thorough design making the phone’s processor and software more efficient.

Conclusion:

Add to all of this an improved Wi-Fi system, adding the 802.11n protocol over the regular model’s b/g, the HTC Desire starts to look very tempting. It is in general the next generation of smartphone, as we move towards full-HD technology in your pocket. Available worldwide, the HTC Desire HD provides 720p to everyone around the globe.

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