New sizes for eBay pictures

FYI: Larger pictures are available on eBay Item pages now. Because photos are so important, larger pictures are now available on Item pages.

The display size of the pictures at the top of listing pages has increased from 300 pixels on the longer side to 400 or 500 pixels (depending on the buyer's screen resolution). That's 25% more space to show your items.

Later this summer, the size of pictures displayed in the Enlarge and Zoom features will also increase to approximately 1000 pixels on the longer size.

My Facebook was slowing down!

In just the last couple of days I noticed Facebook was so slow!  I couldn’t scroll down without waiting a few moments for it to catch up with my mouse and if I tried to close it, the site took forever.

It seemed like nothing else on my desktop was affected.  Hubby thought it was my browser (I like IE, he’s a Chrome fan).  He said I could use FB with Chrome and still use my other sites with IE, but that really wasn’t a good answer for me, so I went looking for a solution. 

And I found it!  Would you believe it was my AVG antivirus scanner that recently upgraded.  I found a discussion that pointed out the AVG Link Scanner was the culprit.  So I went in and disabled just that part and everything on Facebook is back to normal—whew!

So, if you use AVG and are experiencing serious slow-downs on Facebook, open the AVG application and double click LINK SCANNER.  Then uncheck the Enable Search Shield and Enable Surf Shield (they are right together).  Click Save, and restart your computer. 

Promoting next week's Blogging Class

This was on NTV's early morning (9am) show today.

eBay has a One-Day Listing Sale - Today

FYI:  eBay is running a 1-day promotion today, June 14. Sellers can list Auction-style listings for a 5-cent Insertion fees no matter the auction starting price.

The promotion applies to both eBay Stores subscribers and sellers who do not have an eBay Store subscription. Sellers who do not have an eBay Store subscription are still eligible to list up to 50 listings Auction-style listings for free per month. Once the free insertion fees have been used, the 5-cent promotional rate will apply to eligible listings.

More new Facebook changes

Facebook has turned on On Facial Recognition For Tagging for some people.  Is it you?

To Disable:
1. Go to your privacy settings.
2. Click “Customize settings.”
3. Scroll down to “Things others share.”
4. Find “Suggest photos of me to friends.”
5. Change to what you want (mine is on disable).