Do you know where your users are coming from? For online or Internet-based businesses, the sales cycle often starts with a sign-up form. But turning those leads into paying customers isn’t easy, and a lot of startups fail to convert enough leads to stay alive. Bottom line? You need to think like a…
From checking bank statements online to constructing newsletters to converting files into a format that everyone can read regardless of preferred operating system, it’s hard to be online long without needing to use PDF documents. Yet, few of us have control of our PDF files or creative freedom because of…
I’ve used Visual Website Optimizer for many clients and it works really well. They have a fantastic and easy-to-use interface and it does the job. It’s not the cheapest solution, but it’s worth it when a small increase in conversion equals a significant amount of revenue for your company. The new…
When I was working in my last administrative role, I was constantly taking documents from years ago and attempting to create more streamlined, easy and simple templates for other people in the office to use. Not only was it time consuming and tedious, it was just plain boring. I would venture to say…
It is a great option to save a text that caught your interest from the world wide web forlater and for carrying it around in your e-reader. Withouth this chance you could either print the text to carry it around with you or else read in in your smart phone in case you have one. However, an e-reader gives that great option to take it with as in your smart phone, but with all the tools especially designed for reading that devices like Kindle can offer.
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This new site turns creating an ebook into something that anybody can do, as it’s not only really simple to use but it’s also available at no cost. If you’re a writer who has just finished his first truly good work, all you have to do is to upload the PDF or Doc for it to be converted into an ePub file. As I’m sure you know, that’s the standard format for mostly every reading device around. iPads and iPods support it, and so does Sony Readers, Kobos and Nooks. The one exception to the rule is the Kindle, as that’s got a format of its very own (IE, mobi). But even that is supported by 2ePub.com, as it’s one of the output formats that you can choose when converting any file.
The full list includes the following formats: doc, docx, epub, fb2, html, lit, lrf, mobi, odt, pdb, pdf, prc, rtf, and txt. As you can see, that’s pretty extensive. It’s hard to think of a reading device that doesn’t support at least one of them.
And the site’s not only usable for free, it can also be used without having to sign up for an account first. All you have to do is to select the files that you want to have converted for the job to be done before you can even snap your fingers. And you can select as many as five different files at the same time, too.
Home to Adobe Acrobat and other online Adobe services, Acrobat.com offers customers a variety of online services in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Chinese. Adobe Systems Incorporated was founded in 1982 and they focus on creativity and multimedia software including Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Shockwave Flash, Dreamweaver, After Effects and more. They are based in San Jose, California and they employ over 9,000 employees. Acrobat.com allows users to create and export PDF files, convert PDF files to Microsoft Word Documents, and a variety of other online services.
The PDF tool on Acrobat.com allows users to convert a file to PDF, export PDF files to Word or Excel, and even combine files to create PDFs. Annual and monthly pricing plans are available for the online Acrobat services. The Unlimited PDF Conversions plan for 1 year is $8.33 a month, which is billed annually at $99.99 for one year. The monthly plan is $9.99 per month.
Other features of the PDF conversion plans from Acrobat.com include being able to print and convert files to PDF from any desktop application which prints. This feature allows users to “print to PDF” rather than printing their important documents so that they can save those documents electronically. Users can also share their PDF files with anyone they would like and those people who receive the files can view them with free software from Adobe Reader. All files are stored online with the CreatePDF program which means that users can access them from anywhere, at anytime.
Other online services available from the Acrobat website include EchoSign, FormsCentral, SendNow, and ExportPDF. Acrobat.com also has an extensive FAQ, help and support page, forums, and an online contact page. 
Although there are lots of companies that can digitize media and turn anybody’s old and trusty video tapes into more modern formats, a fair share of people aren’t entirely convinced with the way these work. They’re just reluctant to stick some unique VHS tapes into boxes and have them sent by mail to someone they really don’t know, and who might actually be located at the other end of the country.
No, people need something more reliable. Something like PeggyBank.
This Nebraska-based startup enables those who want to have their memories digitized to do it in a fast and secure way. The company mails customers pre-addressed boxes for them to put all the media they need to have converted into them. That can be anything from VHS tapes to photos and even slides and negatives. The way this company works, digitized files are made available to customers right on its site, and the original media is returned once the job is done.
That is, unlike competing services PeggyBank doesn’t limit itself to creating a DVD with the converted files and sending it on its way. No, this company enables customers to get their files online. And once they get them, customers can proceed to have them shared with all their friends thanks to the deposit boxes they get for free. These are named “PeggyVaults”, and in addition to costing nothing they come with unlimited file storage.
The days in which we had to buy expensive software in order to have 3D models created are nothing but a memory. Nowadays, we have applications that work on the browser from start to finish, and that let us come with fully-featured 3D models regardless of our actual technical skills. 3Defy is one such tool. It lets people take photos and have 3D effects applied to them, right on their browsers, and using a point-and-click interface. And then, have the resulting photos embedded just wherever they want.
Leaving aside an unwieldy registration process, 3Defy is a very spontaneous and versatile service. It makes it clear that the newest version of the Flash Player (version 11) has got a lot going for it, and that the GPU-accelerated 3D graphics rendering capabilities it has are enough to leave HTML5 gasping for breath.
3Defy can be used for free, and it must be stressed that what you can see if you give the site a try right now is a demo. It’s fully-functional, and it will allow you to have 3D effects added to all the images that you want. But the site you can currently visit is meant to give you a taster of what’s to come when the full (and final) version of 3Defy sees the light.
A premium online affiliate network, Ludus lets game developers who need more people to play their titles find exactly that, in a really uncomplicated way. On Ludus.net affiliates, developers, advertisers and service providers can interact and do businesses in a way which is meant to be advantageous for just everybody.
The ones who need game traffic are enabled to get people who would be willing not just to install their games but also stick to playing them, whereas those who happen to have traffic and need a way to monetize it will be matched with these games that have the best conversion rates.
Ludus specifically targets social games for Facebook, and the company takes care of selecting only games that come from reliable publishers and developers. It also keeps a constant eye on Facebook’s ever changing regulations, so as to prevent its clients from running into unnecessary complications.
In any case, it must be mentiond that open web games are likewise taken into account. Facebook is what this company specializes in, but it can tackle just all kind of online games. Just get in touch to see what the Ludus folks can do for you.
It’s only natural. Just because you have a computer that can handle all kind of files and documents you assume everybody else has a computer that can do exactly the same. But the truth couldn’t be more removed from that. Not everybody has a computer that can play .AVI files, for example. And not everybody has a computer that can open and display PDFs either.
In all cases, the one way out of trouble is to play things as safe as possible, and send your contacts the type of files even an Atari ST could handle. Take everything to its simplest denominator. And as far as PDFs are concerned, that implies having them turned into the kind of files just anybody could visualize: JPGs. There?s no personal computer that could fail to open such images. All computers can do it by default, without users having to download anything or launching any kind of conflictive application.
The objective of this post is to introduce you to some of the better applications that can assist you in such a conversion task.
In general, you must know that there are two ways to get that job done: by using web-based tools, and by downloading and installing a file conversion tool in your computer.
From PDF to JPG on the Web
There is no shortage of browser-based conversion tools you can use for free, and without the need to even register first. A really popular one is Zamzar. Its free version will let you upload and convert as much as five files at the same time, amounting to 100 MB. All you have to do is to upload them (or point the application to where they’re found online) for them to be rendered into the relevant output format (JPG in this case). They will be delivered straight to your inbox – your email address is the one and only piece of information you must supply.
And a very good alternative to Zamzar is the one provided by Neevia Technology, a purveyor of edocument solutions. This company offers a web interface for uploading files that is really simple to use, and that comes with some features not readily available elsewhere (much les for free), such as being able to set down the resolution of what you are converting and the overall image quality. And something as vital as being able to encrypt what you are converting by password-protecting it and making the image unprintable is made possible in a mere couple of clicks. So is watermarking your image.
The only downside of Neevia Technology is the upload limit, which is really harsh (1 MB per file).
From PDF to JPG on your desktop
In general, people resort to desktop converters not because the image quality is better or anything like that, but simply because they are much safer to use. There is information that no sound person would ever upload to the Internet. Who knows who might end up seeing it? These desktop conversion tools are the only safe way to keep such documents ensconced in your computer, and converted far from prying eyes.
PDF-Xchange Viewer for Windows is the one I want to bring to your attention right now, because its free version is capable of taking any document of yours and have it rendered into a JPEG, BMP or a PNG file. When doing so, you can tweak with aspects like its resolution, its page zoom and even the background to be used.
And PDF-Xchange Viewer has the added plus of letting you visualize PDFs, and annotate them as largely as you might want. That is, it lets people both open and edit documents with the same speed and ease.
More importantly, PDF-Xchange Viewer is a self-contained application. You won’t have to install any drivers in order to use it (a problem with other tools for the conversion of images).
So, there you go. I am sure any of the three applications introduced above will let you have any PDF of yours converted and rendered into a JPG anybody could handle. Personally, I always head to the Neevia Technology website in order to have PDFs processed because of the many encryption services that are offered, and that can be implemented with zero effort. But all three services are excellent, and they can all be used for free to begin with. 
If years and years of reading blogs have given you some excellent ideas for themes of your own, then this is a service you can but fall for. It will let you turn these ideas into actual themes that others can download and use on their blogs, without you needing to code anything at all. Divine Elements is letting you create the theme itself in PSD, and then have that design instantly converted to a WordPress file that bloggers can buy.
It’s hard to deny how useful something like this can turn out to be. People who are really creative and who are kept from turning their ideas into practice will be put in a position where these ideas can naturally grow and be developed. Technical considerations (IE, the biggest turnoff in such cases) will go flying out the window.
A trial version of Divine Elements can be downloaded on the site.
And if you find Divine Elements useful, then consider giving
ThemesPress a good look. That is a service for creating blog themes from HTML, for a more than reasonable fee.
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Scribie is a company specialized in audio transcription services. Its website enables you to submit audio recordings of any kind into the hands of certified freelancers that will produce a high quality transcript of it, in due time and manner. Interviews, meetings, podcasts, webinars… it can all be transcribed by resorting to the services of this company. And it charges as little as $0.99 per minute of audio – Scribie is certainly one of the less cost-strenuous services of its kind that you are finding on the Internet.
Does it sound like the service that you have been looking for? Well, you can proceed to use it more than quickly. You can upload the files to be transcribed using a simple interface (both audio and video files are supported), and then have your file ready for download in 1 business day. The payment itself is made when you upload the files that you want to have transcribed. And note that you can also point Scribie to any file that is found online – there is no need to upload anything if the file in question is already on the Internet.
Visually-striking it might not be, but there is no denying that this website does the job it is supposed to do in a really handy way. ConvertOnlineFree.com enables you to submit a Word document that you have created yourself, or one that you have found when browsing the Internet, and then have it converted into a high-quality PDF. The whole conversion process is taking place online, you will have to download not a single file to your computer. And there is no need for the computer you are uploading the file from to have Word installed, either.
It is interesting to note that ConvertOnlineFree.com can: A) Convert large amounts of files at the same time, B) Convert documents that have pictures and keep them right in place, and C) Convert documents in languages other than English. And not only are .DOC files supported – users can actually upload .DOCX files and have them processed every bit as swiftly.
So, this is a practical service any way you look at it. Give it a try and you will see – just submit the documents you need turned into PDFs for the relevant files to be produced, and be ready for download within minutes.
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As its name implies, File2PDF is an online conversion system that can take different files such as images and Word documents and have them all mixed and combined into a single PDF. The way the site works, you are allowed to use a simple interface to upload what you want to have converted, and a download link will be produced for you to retrieve the finished file after a very short while. The individual files that you upload must be no larger than 10 MB. And you can both upload the documents to be used one by one, or as a part of a single ZIP file.
The service can be used for free to begin with, but if you want some meatier features (such as uploading files larger than 10 MB, having your PDFs stored for longer on the server, and converting large batches of files) then you can sign up for a VIP account. A one time payment of $ 10 will give you access to one.
Not all of us have the fanciest computers around. I am sure everybody can tell a tale or two of how he got his hands on a long-sought movie only to find that his PC could only play it back in a way bearing more resemblance to watching a slideshow than an actual movie. And then how he had to look online for online file converters in a bid to have the offending file turned into something slightly more manageable.
There are currently lots and lots of places you could point your browser to for having your files converted online, but this is a particularly good one for the simple reason that it lets you manage videos, images and documents using a unified dashboard. On FreeFileConvert.com you simply choose the file to be converted from your computer (or supply its URL) and pick the desired output format for it to be processed.
When the file is ready, then you can have it downloaded straight in the desired format or as a .ZIP archive. The output file is going to be stored on the FreeFileConvert.com servers for 12 hours.
Adding a chat to your site is not just advisable if you are a product/service provider – it is actually something that you must necessarily do. Nowadays, the first thing people do when they have any kind of problem with anything they have bought is to check the Internet for help. And they are coming to your site first of all. Anything that you can do in order to help them get your product to work in a quick way is going to turn them into the kind of customers who are going to bring more customers in before too long. Adding a live chat to your site certainly falls into that category.
And adding a chat like the ones that you can add using ClickDesk all the more so – these will come complete with the ability to take calls from visitors at the same time that you are chatting to them. This can but make troubleshooting a lot easier both for customers and for your operators.
And coming back to the actual chat in itself, inbuilt UTF8 support means visitors will be able to chat in just any language with your operators. So, it is fair to say the whole application is a truly international one.
An application that both users of iPhones and iPads can get for free at the AppStore, Videolicious stands as flexible way for making videos come to life. This iOS application can take both separate stills and raw footage and have it all combined into a visually-appealing video.
This is all done in a mere couple of esteps, namely picking the media to be used (and concatenating it), and recording oneself when narrating what happens in the video (or choosing a song to go along with the full sequence).
That will do the trick. The video will be ready in less than one minute, and you (as its creator) will be able to have it shared on Facebook, Twitter and any other social site that you habitually visit.
It is patently clear that the objective of Videolicious is being recognized as an easy, ad-hoc solution for the creation of quality videos in the shortest possible span of time. I think it passes the test, but I encourage you to give it a try for yourself and see whether it resonates with you or not. Remember, you can get the app for free.
A straightforward application, Iaza will let you take any image and have it processed in most ways a casual user could possibly want. You will be able to crop it, you will be able to resize it, and you will also be able to mix images together and animate them. And you will be allowed to do all that using a simple web interface that basically has you upload the relevant file, and choose the effects that you want applied to it.
And Iaza.com also makes it very simple to convert images from one format to another. GIF, PNG, JPG, BMP and ICO are all actively supported. And there are also options for having the images enhanced and adjusted on the spot, so that you are ensured they will always look crisp and pro.
Iaza can be used for free. And both an Android and an iPhone app are available for those who like the way Iaza works, and who can envision using it for handling the bulk of their image conversion processes.
This is a new application that you can use to have non-hyperlinked links turned into links that can be clicked through. All you have to do is to cut and paste the links into the box that is provided for the lot of them to be processed.
A service such as this one will obviously be of great aid to people who buy domains in bulk – they will be able to have links extracted and turned usable with zero effort. And the ones who have to download a file split into several smaller ones from sites such as Rapidshare will also maximize a service like this. They will get access to the individual files that much faster.
A note on usage: Make Linked stores no data on its servers, so that if you delete your cookies the list of links that it has generated will be erased. Other than that, the site is easy to understand and I am sure you will be using it more than intuitively.
