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How to make a pdf document for free online

admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:27:43 +0000

Sometimes it’s handy to make a pdf document. I love pdf, it’s easy to send, easy to link to, easy to use. The best thing is that you can layout your document exactly the way you like it and nobody can change it, which is not the case with a word document.

Often we create documents in word, but when we share them and want them to be printable documents or forms, it’s easier to change your word document to a pdf file.

Many of our clients do not have software to convert documents with, so I went online to see how difficult it would be to do for free. It’s not hard at all. If you have a lot of documents to do, buy software, but if you just need to convert now and then, the free online version works fine. There are lots of places to go, I only tried one.

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Facebook Is Becoming a Modern Version of Outlook

admin — Wed, 21 May 2008 05:06:07 +0000

I was reading an interesting and fun article by Sarah Perez on How to Make Facebook Useful Again . *
The author points out that the younger crowd has almost completely turned to Facebook or MySpace for communication – including emailing. In a way, it’s understandable. It’s a little bit like living in a gated community, at least you have to be a member and I have to approve you as a friend before we can communicate. My normal inbox doesn’t work that way and wading through email is probably one of the biggest time wasters we deal with in a workday.

“If it’s not in my Outlook – it doesn’t exist.”
That was life in 2001 or so, but now I have completely weened myself from Outlook. I stopped using Outlook due to the spam I received. I hate learning new software, so it’s always easier to hang on to what your familiar with, and I’ve been doing just that for years. I used Word, Excel, Act and Outlook when I worked for Big Biz. So when we started our own business, we just used familiar software. First Act had to go, and guess what – in just a few years Outlook followed, and recently I decided not to install Microsoft Office either.

Open Office is free, and I don’t really use it that much any more. Most of my conversations is email, twitter or IM based, and if I need to write a text document I often end up using Google docs so I can share it with my group. I have installed Irfan and Gimp, but I still use Photoshop. I just don’t bother to open Photoshop to just resize a picture for example. And the other day, I started thinking about getting rid of my old, trusted friend Quickbooks. A small business like ours doesn’t have pay roll, we don’t keep inventory and Quickbook is probably overkill.

Now I don’t think everything can be free, but lately I find myself more open to trying a new solution instead of going with the old familiar choice. Things change so quickly in technology. It’s hard to believe that once upon a time I actually had sleepless nights over the fact that we had to switch to Adobe InDesign for our graphics work instead of using my old friend Quark Xpress.
Please…

Nowadays I tell my kids “if it’s not in the Family Google Calendar, it doesn’t exist”!

* How to Make Facebook Useful Again on www.readwriteweb.com by Sarah Perez

Collaborate with Google Docs

admin — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:31:19 +0000

When you work on a project with a group of people it’s easy to get lost when documents constantly get revised and changed. It’s easy to get bombarded with emails, changes and updates and loose track of which version is the correct version.

For us, Google Docs has been the solution to keep our projects on track and the group informed. It’s easy to share documents and work on a piece of text together. You can also share the action item list so that everyone can access it. Nowadays, we rely on Google docs to keep all our projects organized.

Watch this short video to quickly find out how easy it is to get started.