Link to the MyLiveSignature website:
http://www.mylivesignature.com/a.php?misscued
Anyone born prior to 1990 may recall that many moons ago, everything was written by hand. The written word took so long that someone invented a shortcut, hence shorthand.. These days holding a pen or pencil has become as obsolete as eight- track tapes and station wagons.
As a young girl, I wrote until writers cramp became a part of my daily regiment. Now, I can only vaguely remember the discomfort of writers cramp. These days writers cramp has been replaced with carpel tunnel syndrome.
But, with the whole technological advancements, while the computer became the number one business tool, one thing seemed to always be lacking at the end of every document.....my name handwritten out in cursive with blue ink.
A signature is something so personal. It can add a note of sincerity to any message. The desire for a signature can be overwhelming; seeing a signature, smelling the ink smell, that tangy, sharp, metallic smell. One can recall feeling the ink bubble out of a fountain pen while it left an artistic illustration of an individual's personality.
My signature is something that I have longed for since the early 90's when it became obsolete with the computer age. I found myself composing long legal documents that were never intended to be printed since they were simply cyber-documents that would travel from myself to the destination of another person at the other end of an email. I also found it incredibly inconvenient and wasteful to create this long document and then be forced to print it JUST FOR ....a signature, then having to take the time to rescan the pages right back to their original virtual form and save them in my computer's documents folder.
So, approximately one year ago, I set out to find a solution to my ink-less signature dilemma. I tried a variety of methods. At first I tried using the silly little pencil tool that Adobe offers in the Acrobat software program. Not only was it messier than a two year old with crayons, but trying to write a signature with a mouse was an impossible task. My mouse-signatures had a strange similarity to an etcha-sketch drawing.
After my frustration peaked, I moved on. My next signature was derived from Adobe's 'sign and certify ' tool. It must have taken me a half a day to maneuver through the instructions for managing my trusted identities to encrypting my ink-less signature. That process just left me dissatisfied since the final product was simply a stamp that had my name neatly typed into a box. Although it cured my Etcha-Sketch issues, I continued my search.
Recently I set out to finally find a solution. I gathered all of my search engines together on my quest for the perfect virtual signature. I googled, and binged, and yahood. I Asked, I Answered, I Wikipediad, I even dotted and I commed.
And then .....there it was. My perfect virtual signature! I could create more than 500 different varieties of my name. 150 different fonts, neat ones, messy ones, authentic looking ones, professional ones, blue ones, red, green or even rainbow colors. I was in Signature Heaven.
I began the process of authenticating every single document that I wrote, making sure that my signature was the last thing that anyone read. I now put my signature in my blogs, my hubs, emails, threads at school, everywhere I possibly could. I even screen saved one, a big 'SBHelgirl' flashed across my screen as a reminder of my victory and endless search. Go to MyLiveSignature.com and you too, can share my joy.
Link to the MyLiveSignature website:
http://www.mylivesignature.com/a.php?misscued
Link to the MyLiveSignature website:
http://www.mylivesignature.com/a.php?misscued
