Facebook expands its plans to make the rest of the world wide web social with the concept of authenticating third party sites using Facebook Connect.

Social plugins have now been developed to offer instant personalization using iFrames and cookies. An example of this can been found below.

Click “like” and see what happens in your personal facebook feed.
We have added this feature to our website for test purposes and would love to hear your thoughts on the interaction between our website and your Facebok profile.

For those of you who dislike the idea and wish to disable the feature entirely here are the steps to follow:

1. First, login to facebook and look for the Account tab located in the top right hand corner, from the drop-down menu choose Privacy Settings

2. Select the Applications and Websites link.

3. Look for the Instant Personalization section and select Edit Settings.

4. Ensure the check mark is removed from the box marked Allow select partners to instantly personalize their features with my public information when I first arrive on their websites.

5. Select Confirm.

6. Now select Applications and Websites tab to go back to the main screen. Locate the What your friends can share about you section and click Edit Settings

7. Remove all check marks and select Save Changes

8. Nearly there.. We now need to disable Facebook’s three partners. Click here to launch the facebook docks page. Locate Block Application under the pages profile image.

9. Select Block Docs

10. Now follow steps 8 and 9 for the following apps the Pandora app and the Yelp app.

11. That’s it your done.. Docs, Pandora and Yelp are the only three partners right now but rest assured there will be more.. Please bear this in mind.

Photography by Phil Beard is now offering personal tutorials and screencasts. Have a program you need to get your head around? Need help with a difficult project? Need to train your staff on procedures or operations regularly? Take the stress off of your shoulders and have a personalized tutorial created or a one on one lesson in our studio.



Contact us to learn more to or get your very own training package started.

Photography By Phil Beard is offering a one hour family portrait session, this offer is fully transferable so you may bid on this item and gift it to a family member or friend. You will receive over 150 images with all the rights to your pictures and complete disk of professionally retouched images.
Please contact us here if you have any further questions.

The terms and conditions for this item are as follows:

• This item is only valid until May 1st 2011, one year after received.
• This item is not valid to parties that have portrait sessions currently booked with Photography by Phil Beard.
• This item cannot be exchanged for any other services offered by Photography by Phil Beard.
• Willing to travel outside of the Chatham-Kent area however travel expenses will apply.

Please visit the showcase to see some examples of my work. To bid for this item please visit the Cosmo Chicks Auction on facebook here

To bid for this item please visit the Cosmo Chicks Auction on facebook here

Thank you for taking an interest in our auction item..

Photography By Phil Beard is offering a one hour family portrait session, this offer is fully transferable so you may bid on this item and gift it to a family member or friend. You will receive over 150 images with all the rights to your pictures and complete disk of professionally retouched images.

Please contact us here if you have any further questions.

The terms and conditions for this item are as follows:

• This item is only valid until May 1st 2011, one year after received.
• This item is not valid to parties that have portrait sessions currently booked with Photography by Phil Beard.
• This item cannot be exchanged for any other services offered by Photography by Phil Beard.
• Willing to travel outside of the Chatham-Kent area however travel expenses will apply.

Please visit the showcase to see some examples of my work, click here

To bid for this item please visit the Cosmo Chicks Auction on facebook here

Moving pictures from Phil Beard on Vimeo.

Bring pictures back to life, move your audience.

Create an amazing alternative to your static photographs by transforming them into dynamic 3d motion picture productions. We will transform your most treasured images of engagements, weddings, birthdays and anniversaries into moving magical productions. You will be able to upload your production to your website, email to friends and family or play it on your mobile/cell phone, PC, TV or even on the big screen at a special event.

To learn more about this product please contact us.

Thank you for taking an interest in our auction item..

Photography By Phil Beard is offering free wedding day coverage, this offer is fully transferable so you may bid on this item and gift it to a family member or friend. You will receive over 8 hours of wedding day coverage with all the rights to your pictures and complete disk of professionally retouched images. Please contact us here to confirm your date is free.

You will also receive a custom, hand made, jewellery set with your choice of Swarovski Crystals or Perls from PhiiShii to see more please click here.

The terms and conditions for this item are as follows:

• This item is not valid to parties that have wedding coverage currently booked with Photography by Phil Beard.
• This item cannot be exchanged for any other services offered by Photography by Phil Beard.
• Phil is willing to travel outside of the Chatham-Kent area however travel expenses will apply.

Please visit the showcase to see some examples of my work. To bid for this item please visit the Cosmo Chicks Auction on facebook here

The Cosmo Chicks over the past few weeks have been out in full force collecting items from various businesses throughout Chatham-Kent for our online auction.

Please keep in mind that all money raised from this event will be going to the Cancer Society through the Cosmo Chicks Fundraising Efforts for the 2010 Relay for Life.

There are only a few simple rules…

* Since this is a fund raising event, we are counting on bidders to take this seriously. Please only bid on items that you WANT and WILL be intending picking up shortly after the auction closes!

* Bidding will start on Monday, April 19th at 9:00am – ANY bids placed before this time will be deleted.

* The Auction will close on Friday April 30th at 7:00 pm SHARP! All winners will be notified shortly there after.

* Biddiing should be done in $1.00 increments ONLY. (Bids not following this format will be erased).

* To keep it simple to read, please bid with your dollar amount ONLY and no other comments.

* The Winning Bidder will be contacted by a Private Facebook Message. Please do not assume you have won something until you have been contacted by myself, Krissy Rioux – you may need to add me as a friend or change your FB settings for this to happen.

* We have set aside a Pick-up Time on Saturday May 1st from 10:00am-3:00pm. If this day does not work for some winners, an alternate arrangement MAY be made after the auction closes, but we are requesting that all items be picked up within 5 days.

Lastly, HAVE FUN! We have to remember that while we are taking this VERY seriously, we want to have fun raising money for a great cause!!! Too many people in today’s world are affected by cancer in one way or another! Let’s beat this nasty disease and live a better tomorrow!!

Thanks for ALL of your support! We are PROUD to be COSMO CHICKS !!

If a picture tells a thousand words then just imagine how much can be said at 30 frames per second. Photography by Phil Beard not only offers HD quality video production we also offer post production editing and streaming. Not only this but we’ll even write a royalty free soundtrack and provide voice over for your motion picture, exactly as featured in the movie above.

Let Photography by Phil Beard captivate and inspire your audience with stunning panoramic images. Simply place your cursor in the image, click and move your mouse left to right and interact. Alternatively use the menu at the bottom of the image to navigate and zoom, hotspots can also be added to enable users to walk through doors and explore other rooms.

To see more of our panoramic photography please visit The Retro Suites and look for the 360° virtual tour tab. Please contact us for pricing

The Retro Suites Hotel, Located in downtown Chatham, southwestern Ontario’s premier boutique hotel has married history with the contemporary, providing an unparalleled accommodation experience for guests to Chatham and the surrounding area. The 28 suites are spacious and individually appointed, offering a degree of luxury that is unmatched.

To find out more please click here.