Angie Miller You Set Me Free Behind the Scenes Video

Angie Miller Behind Scenes You Set Me Free

If you want to find out more on Angie Miller check out this Behind the Scenes Video on Just Jared Jr. In the video Angie talks about the chronology of the song and her daring decision to try it out during the solo rounds of American Idol during Hollywood Week.

Angie Miller Picture by Just Jared Jr

 

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Angie Miller Writing Songs with Hitmaker Gannin Arnold

You may not have heard of song writer Gannin Arnold but you have surely heard of Queen, Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) Joe Walsh (The Eagles), Cheap Trick, Taylor Hawkins The Coattail Riders and recent American Idol Colton Dixon.That same Gannin Arnold has been co writing songs with Angie Miller and they should be amazing. Check out Angie Miller Official Twitter and Gannin Arnold twitter for the exciting news.

Angie Miller Ganin Arnold article by Steve Forrest Writer 

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Angie Miller Will Shine like a Star on American Idol Tour

Angie Miller Star of Idol Tour

When it comes to the American Idol Tour there will be the winner of American Idol Candice Glover, however, the star of the tour will undoubtedly be Angie Miller. The only other finalists who can bring a natural energy to the stage besides Angie Miller will be Janelle and Amber. For concert goers the most fun, the most excitement and the best experience of the night will be whenever Angie Miller hits the stage. Angie Miller immediately lights up the stage naturally with her exciting delivery, presentation and wickedly piercing perfect pitch voice. Watch Angie in concert at Grand Prairie TX perforn her now famous "You Set Me Free" it is magic. Listen with headphones.



Angie Miller Star of American Idol Tour by Steve Forrest Writer

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Angie Miller American Idol Got It Wrong The Voice Got It Right

Angie Miller Twitter "You Set Me Free"

Talking about money in the bank, "The Voice on NBC" got it right, right, right. Danielle Bradbury winner of "The Voice" is money in the bank for that show. "The Voice" has been looking for a figure to represent the shows success and they got it with 5 Stars with Danielle Bradbury's victory. What "The Voice" got with Danielle Bradbury was exactly what American Idol would have gotten if Angie Miller had won American Idol. A future Superstar that represents what the show was supposed to represent since Season 1 when American Idol was called "American Idol Search For a Superstar". Angie Miller was destined to win American Idol without a doubt but she was derailed primarily by the judges Randy, Keith, Nickie, Maria with backup from Jimmy Iovine. What a disaster, Jimmy $$ signs Iovine should have known that he could make tons more money from Angie than Candice or Kree but he never showed her support, instead it was lavished over and over on Candice. Randy Jackson who in part with Paula Abdul saved Kelly Clarkson from elimination by Simon in Hollywood Week should have recognized Angie Miller's current young relative feeling especially with young girls who are the ones that buy CDs, download songs and want to be like their star. I will excuse Keith, Nickie and Maria for simply being judges for the $$, especially $20,000,000 Maria or were they maybe jealous of Angie. In any case congratulations to the Voice for a thoroughly enjoyable season. The idea of counting I Tunes Songs that rank in the top ten as 10 times the normal vote was genius. That was putting your money where your mouth is, if you buy the songs now you will buy the songs later when they start their real singing career. Congratulations also to the Voice for making the show 90% singing and 10 % talking versus the 10 % singing and 90% talking, skits, etc that have clogged American Idol show to a snails pace and driven viewers to other channels.

Angie Miller performs Yesterday better than Paul McCartney

Angie Miller The Voice Danielle Bradbury Article by Steve Forrest Writer

  

How to access blocked facebook

     According to CNet page and has been widely confirmed fact, a version for mobile devices such as smartphones, tablet of Facebook remains stable operation while the web version of the problem. A lot of people get the message "Page does not exist".

     Error messages of Facebook:

     Here are ways to fix not login into Facebook:

1. Change the hosts file.

- Firstly, you need to change DNS to Google DNS (or OpenDNS).

- The next step is adding the IP and facebook address into host file of Windows.

+ Access C:|Windows|system32|drivers|etc.

+ At this folder, open the file hosts by  Notepad or Wordpad.

+ Add the below information and then save it.

153.16.15.71 facebook.com 153.16.15.71 www.facebook.com 153.16.15.71 apps.facebook.com 153.16.15.71 login.facebook.com 153.16.15.71 graph.facebook.com 153.16.15.71 static.ak.connect.facebook.com 153.16.15.71 developers.facebook.com 153.16.15.71 error.facebook.com 153.16.15.71 upload.facebook.com 153.16.15.71 register.facebook.com 153.16.15.71 bigzipfiles.facebook.com 153.16.15.71 pixel.facebook.com

   or

69.171.234.24 facebook.com 69.171.234.24 www.facebook.com 31.13.79.7 www.login.facebook.com 31.13.79.7 login.facebook.com 31.13.79.7 apps.facebook.com 31.13.79.7 graph.facebook.com 31.13.79.7 register.facebook.com 31.13.79.7 vi-vn.connect.facebook.com 31.13.79.7 vi-vn.facebook.com 31.13.79.7 static.ak.connect.facebook.com 31.13.79.7 developers.facebook.com 31.13.79.7 error.facebook.com 31.13.79.7 channel.facebook.com 31.13.79.7 register.facebook.com 31.13.79.7 bigzipfiles.facebook.com 31.13.79.7 pixel.facebook.com 69.171.224.33 upload.facebook.com 31.13.79.7 register.facebook.com 31.13.79.7 bigzipfiles.facebook.com 69.171.229.72 pixel.facebook.com 31.13.79.7 logins.facebook.com 31.13.79.7 graph.facebook.com 31.13.79.7 developers.facebook.com 31.13.79.7 error.facebook.com 31.13.79.7 register.facebook.com 31.13.79.7 blog.facebook.com 31.13.79.7 channel.facebook.com 31.13.79.7 connect.facebook.com 31.13.79.7 bigzipfiles.facebook.com

     Then you will be happy with Facebook right now for sure.

     In case you feel quite complicated to do the above steps, I recommend you download the .EXE file below. Then Extract, choose Yes to overwrite the current host file in your Windows. This file is available in both XP and Seven Windows version.

For Mac users:

     Open Terminal, copy the text below and paste in:

          sudo /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit /etc/hosts

     Press Enter, log in with your adminitrative account. At the Text Editor appearing, copy the text above containing the IP and Facebook address and paste between the first and the last line.

127.0.0.1 localhost

   insert here

255.255.255.255 broadcasthost

2.  Using software support

       Software support to the blocked sites (including Facebook) is currently the best software UltraSurf and Hotspot Shield. You download the software to your computer, run the software when you want to login facebook

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Style vs. Substance in Mobile Software

Although we’ve all been talking about mobile computing for years, the smartphone and tablet markets are still very young, and changing rapidly. Many app and web companies are struggling to figure out how mobile works and what makes it different from the more familiar world of websites and personal computers.

The depth of the confusion became clear to me recently when, as part of a research project, I had the chance to watch a huge archive of videos of users trying out mobile-specific apps and websites. The results were surprising. Many users struggled to figure out even basic tasks, and I saw the same design mistakes repeated over and over by different developers.

I’ve written a whitepaper on the findings, with many details and examples (you can download it here).* In this post, I want to highlight the biggest problem I saw in the tests, and what I think it means for all of us.

The most common problem I saw in the tests was users struggling with mobile apps and websites that prioritized beauty over usability. Too often, we as an industry equate an app that looks simple with an app that’s easy to use. Those are two entirely different things. Stripping all the text out of an app and hiding all of the buttons makes for a beautiful demo at TechCrunch, but a horrible user experience for people who are trying to get something done with an app.

We tell ourselves that this is OK, relabeling confusion as “intrigue.”  How many times have you see an expert online say something like this: “Users enjoy the process of discovering new functions in your app as they gradually explore its interface and learn its hidden features”?  From watching real people use apps, I can tell you that’s lunacy. What delights most mobile users is getting things done. The only time they want to explore an app’s hidden nuances is if they’re playing. In a game or other entertainment app, cryptic Myst-like interfaces make for an engaging puzzle. In all other apps, puzzlement is a sign of bad design.

Here are three examples of the trouble we're creating for ourselves:

Low contrast. A trend in modern graphic design is the use of low-contrast graphics and text: light gray or blue text on a white background, or dark gray text on a black background. It looks sexy in print and on the web, but causes problems in mobile. Smartphones are often used outdoors, in situations where any screen image is hard to see. Low-contrast items can completely disappear in direct sunlight. Often companies don’t realize that this will be a problem because they test their apps indoors, or do design reviews by projecting screen images in a darkened room.

If you think this is just an isolated problem, check out the weather app in iOS 7. I love the look of that white text that Apple superimposed over a pale blue sky with puffy white clouds. But can you read it? How will it look in the sun?

Cryptic icons. There are a few icons that mean the same thing on all mobile platforms. For example, the magnifying glass means “search” everywhere. But in most cases, the mobile OS players have used icon designs as a point of differentiation. The table below shows some conflicting icon designs in Android and iOS:

The last two examples in the table show similar icons in iOS and Android that have different meanings.

Some developers respond to this diversity by creating separate versions of their mobile app for each OS, with different icons in each version. But users are not as easily segmented. In the tests, I saw cases in which iOS users assumed the Android icon definitions, and vice-versa. The situation is even worse for a mobile web developer, who must use the same UI on all platforms. Which icon set should they use?

When icon designs conflict, they cancel each other out and mean nothing. Many apps are studded with icons that the developers think make sense, but that actually are just tiny meaningless pictures in the eyes of many users.

Missing help. I used to think the ideal mobile app would be so simple that everyone could figure out how to use it intuitively. I now realize that’s a fantasy. The tiny screen and other restrictions of a mobile device make it almost certain that people will sometimes be confused by your app.

When mobile app users get confused, the first thing they do is search in the app for a help function. If help is available and properly structured, the user can usually resolve the problem and get back on task.  Unfortunately, in most mobile apps and websites, help is minimal or totally absent. I don’t know why that is. Maybe developers feel adding help would be an admission that their app is hard to use. But that’s like saying you shouldn’t put seat belts in a car because it implies the car might crash. Plan for trouble and your users will be happier.


What it means. The fixes to these specific problems are straightforward:

—Use high-contrast text (black on white, white on black, or pretty close to it). And test your mobile app or website outdoors, in bright sunlight.
—Label all buttons with text in addition to (or instead of) icons.
—Add context-sensitive help to every screen in your app (the help can be as simple as an overlay saying what you’re supposed to do on this screen and what the buttons do).

The harder part is dealing with the underlying design attitude that created these problems in the first place. I don’t know exactly when we went astray on design. Early websites were horribly cluttered, and in reaction to that we started to see a welcome move toward cleaner and simpler designs online (think of Mint.com, which took a complex subject like personal finance and made it feel accessible). The rise of the iPhone, with Apple’s strong emphasis on design elegance, reinforced this trend. But somewhere along the way, we lost track of the user’s needs. Instead of making things simple, we made them simplistic. We hid features for the sake of hiding them, rather than because the user didn’t need them. And we started designing software that would look beautiful to VCs and other designers, rather than being helpful to our users.

If we’re going to permanently solve the usability problems in mobile, we need to readjust our attitude toward mobile design. The most beautiful app is not the one that looks most striking; it’s the one people can actually use. You should design your app to be usable first, and then make it as pretty as you can.

The highest form of beauty is functionality.

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*Full disclosure: In addition to my startup role at zekira.com, I’m working on mobile strategy for UserTesting.com. They’re the leading “talk aloud” user testing service, and they gave me access to their test archive for the whitepaper. I controlled the content of the research and the conclusions. And the company had nothing to do with this blog post; I wrote it because I thought you’d be interested in the findings.

Angie Miller Brought Excitement to Idol - Candise Glovers Sales Worst of all Tiime

Angie Miller Twitter

American Idol is over for 2013 and with it came the crowning of Candice Glover American Idol for Season 12. The real world is now descending on Candice Glover and with it comes the distinction of having the dubious honor of worst sales winning song of any American Idol to date. For the complete story you may wish to review the article "Candice Glover Worst Idol Sales All Time on Wetpaint" . For most everyone who watched the show this should come as absolutely no surprise. Yes, Candice could hit the notes and I am sure she is a real nice person, but, it was evident to most everyone that Candice outside of the warm cozy confines of the American Idol stage where she was the pet Idol to Randy, Keith, Nickie, Maria, Jimmy Iovine and the producers, Candice has zero, let me repeat zero commercial value. This is not a dig on Candice it is simply what everyone was saying all along but wouldn't dare cross in judging. Angie Miller on the other hand had and has commercial value spilling all over the stage in into the audience. Angie was the one who could have immediately made an impact on Top 40 radio if she had won American Idol. According to Angie Millers Twitter she is busy writing songs hopefully with hits that can make it on the radio. Angie Miller's "You Set Me Free" is getting air time on the radio. Be sure to request it via Text, Phone or Email to your local station.

Angie Miller Excitement Article by Steve Forrest Writer Photography Website Design

Angie Miller American Idol and The Voice

Angie Miller

I have enjoyed American Idol over the years and Angie Miller was special however watching "The Voice" this Spring is like a breath of fresh air in comparison. I have stated repeatedly that the American Idol judges, the producers and Jimmy Iovine did a terrible job this year casting every contestant in a constant unfavorable fog except for their love pet Candice Glover. In comparison on the Voice every contestant is treated fairly and no favorites are preordained winner like Candice. American Idol needs to seriously look at their show. Simply put, The Voice has been fun to watch this Spring, while watching American Idol this Spring was a drudgery except when Angie Miller performed and brought the stage to life.Watch Angie Miller perform "Bring Me To Life" our # 1 Angie Miller performance on American Idol.

Angie Miller American Idol The Voice by Steve Forrest Writer Photography Website Design

Comedy Nirvana! An Evening with Maron | The Paley Center for Media

Marc Maron,

Tuesday, June 18, 2013 @ 7:00 PM PT, join Marc Maron for an evening of Comedy Nirvana! #@paleycenter Twitter use #PaleyLifeLA to join the conversation. Or watch it live via the Paley Center APP.  Tickets are $15.00 Members $20.00 General Public 310.786.1091

Marc Maron, Creator/Executive Producer/Writer
Jim Serpico, Executive Producer
Bobcat Goldthwait, Director/ Guess Star
Silvert Glarum, Executive Producer/ Writer
Michael Jamin, Executive Producer/ Writer
Moderator: Robert Lloyd, The Los Angeles Times

Comedy Nirvana! An Evening with Maron | The Paley Center for Media

The Paley Center for Media | 465 North Beverly Drive | Beverly Hills, CA 90210

Smooches, Carla

Angie Miller Attends Crystal Lucy Awards

Angie Miller Crystal Lucy Awards

Angie Miller along with Candice Glover attended the recent Crystal Lucy Awards. For a full report go to Just Jared for great pictures of the occasion. Angie Miller looks like the one who won American Idol as she certainly got her share of the paparazzi. Listen to "You Set Me Free" by Angie Miller and buy it on ITunes.

Angie Miller Crystal Lucy Update by Steve Forrest Writer

Happy Father's Day!

 Bombardier Learjet 85

Every year, on Father's Day, thanks to the City of Beverly Hills, Bruce Meyer and Tom Blumenthal, Rodeo Drive Hosts a wonderful Concours d' Elegance Event,
with a  catchy theme. This year, it's "The Jet Age". Learjet is celebrating it's 50th Anniversary, and Rodeo Drive will have a Learjet 85 parked on the street. Yes....Joining in the festivities will be Porsche... Are you going to grab your Dad, grandfather, uncle, brother and cousin and stop on by Rodeo Drive? Great! See you there....Smooches C

Porsche 911

How to create HTML Sitemap tabular for blogger

      A site map (or sitemap) is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users. It can be either a document in any form used as a planning tool for Web design, or a Web page that lists the pages on a Web site, typically organized in hierarchical fashion. There are two popular versions of a site map. An XML Sitemap is a structured format that a user doesn't need to see, but it tells the search engine about the pages in your site, their relative importance to each other, and how often they are updated. HTML sitemaps are designed for the user to help them find content on the page, and don't need to include each and every subpage. This helps visitors and search engine bots find pages on the site.

         This guide will help you create a sitemap of type 2 (HTML sitemap - tablet sitemap), see image below (or see the sitemap of this blog):

    To create a sitemap for your blogger, you do the following:
     
         - Step 1: Login blogger >> Select a blog to generate sitemap >> Pages >> New page >> Blank page. This new page is named sitemap (Read more at here).

         - Step 2: Click on Edit HTML, Copy the script below and paste it in the post area (Select All >> Ctrl +C).

<link href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/66256041/Sitemap/namkna.blogspot.com/tabbed-toc-skin.css" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"></link><br /><div id="tabbed-toc"><span class="loading">Loadding... Please wait!</span></div><a href="http://free-download-linkmf.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-to-create-tablet-sitemap-for-blogger.html" style="display: block; font: normal bold 8px Arial,Sans-Serif; margin: 10px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="CLICK HERE">How to create a sitemap as above?</a><script type="text/javascript">var tabbedTOC = { blogUrl: "http://Your-Blogger.blogspot.com/", containerId: "tabbed-toc", // Container ID activeTab: 1, // The default active tab index (default: the first tab) showDates: false, // `true` to show the post date showSummaries: false, // `true` to show the posts summaries numChars: 210, // Number of summary chars showThumbnails: false, // `true` to show the posts thumbnails (Not recommended) thumbSize: 40, // Thumbnail size noThumb: "http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vpCFysMEZys/UOEhSGjkfnI/AAAAAAAAFwY/h1wuA5kfEhg/s72-c/grey.png", // A "no thumbnail" URL monthNames: [ // Array of month names "January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December" ], newTabLink: true, // Open link in new window? maxResults: 99999, // Maximum post results preload: 0, // Load the feed after 0 seconds (option => time in milliseconds || "onload") sortAlphabetically: true, // `false` to sort posts by published date showNew: 10, // `false` to hide the "New!" mark in most recent posts, or define how many recent posts are to be marked newText: " - <em style='color:red;'>New!</em>" // HTML for the "New!" text }; </script><script src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/66256041/Sitemap/namkna.blogspot.com/tabbed-toc.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

    Note:  Replace the blogUrl: "http://Your-Blogger.blogspot.com/" in script with  the url of your blog.

    You can further customize the sitemap in the following code:

blogUrl: "http://Your-Blogger.blogspot.com/", containerId: "tabbed-toc", // Container ID activeTab: 1, // The default active tab index (default: the first tab) showDates: false, // `true` to show the post date showSummaries: false, // `true` to show the posts summaries numChars: 210, // Number of summary chars showThumbnails: false, // `true` to show the posts thumbnails (Not recommended) thumbSize: 40, // Thumbnail size noThumb: "http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vpCFysMEZys/UOEhSGjkfnI/AAAAAAAAFwY/h1wuA5kfEhg/s72-c/grey.png", // A "no thumbnail" URL monthNames: [ // Array of month names "January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December" ], newTabLink: true, // Open link in new window? maxResults: 99999, // Maximum post results preload: 0, // Load the feed after 0 seconds (option => time in milliseconds || "onload") sortAlphabetically: true, // `false` to sort posts by published date showNew: 10, // `false` to hide the "New!" mark in most recent posts, or define how many recent posts are to be marked newText: " - <em style='color:red;'>New!</em>" // HTML for the "New!" text

         You can also view articles How to create XML sitemap for blogger at here.

Mario Canali Opening Art Exhibition Reception @ DAC Gallery 6.15.13

 Italian Surrealist Artist Mario Canali is creating fabulous works of art.

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Homemade Metaphysical Drama
oil on canvas, 30 x 19
Surrealist Artist Mario Canali

In collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles,
the National Italian American Foundation, and COM.I.T.ES, and
The Consulate General of Italy in Los Angeles, The Honorable Giuseppe Perrone,
the Downtown Art Center (DAC) Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of
Mario Canali: New Works

When: Saturday, June 15, 2013. Won't you join us?
RSVP Yes: info@dacgallery.com or 213.627.7374

Mario Canali's Exhibition - June 15, 2013 - July 11, 2013
For more details, visit : DAC Gallery