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Friday, September 3. 2010
Last week on this blog you read about turning your tweets into a PDF e-book with Twournal. A great upcoming service for Tweeters, Twournal lets you set your ever-growing stream of 140 character messages in stone.
But what if you’re a blogger?
Although blogs can’t be updated as quickly as tweets can, blogs usually contain more engaging content that needs more than just a quick scan. There are many bloggers out there with blogs already full of compelling thoughts, fun links, and eye-catching images.
As an online journal, a blog is a great way of looking back at what you’ve done or learned about in the past. Thus, it would be fitting to get that content into a format you can read as an e-book.
So how can you get your blog content into a PDF?
Continue reading "How To Turn Your Blog Into A PDF E-Book With BlogBooker"
Friday, August 27. 2010
If you’re addicted to Twitter, you probably tweet more than 20 times a day. When you constantly tweet, you eventually end up creating a story made up of interesting content, personal thoughts, and spur-of-the-moment pictures. Before you know it, you’ve actually created an online journal.
Although Twitter is great for capturing those spontaneous moments, it isn’t so great when it comes to re-visiting them. It isn’t like Facebook where you can click around on your photo albums; Twitter requires A LOT of scrolling down.
And if you’d like to look back and keep those moments easily accessible, you’d be hard pressed to find a way of exporting those tweets into a fun and reader-friendly format.
Well here’s a great tip off on how to get those tweets off the stream and into digital format.
Continue reading "Get Your Tweets In PDF Format With Twournal"
Thursday, August 19. 2010
Admittedly, it hasn’t been great for Adobe and its flagship PDF software for the past two weeks. Adobe Reader and Acrobat flaws have made it next to impossible to trust any incoming or web published PDFs.
In response, Adobe has been rushing to push out an update, which was slated for --and has been released, today.
Continue reading "Adobe Releases Emergency Update Patch"
Monday, August 9. 2010
Lately, news in the PDF industry hasn’t been too good.
Thus far, the PDF issue at the top of the list has mainly been focused upon the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. Since jailbreaking became legal, many users have “freed up” their devices through a visit to the Jailbreakme.com site.
But as it turned out, malicious users were hacking into Apple devices via PDF (the common tool of choice) with the same method Jailbreakme.com was using to break Apple’s security barrier.
As if that weren’t bad enough for PDF users out there, there's yet another PDF security issue which Adobe is now rushing to fix.
Continue reading "Adobe Rushes To Fix New PDF Vulnerability"
Thursday, July 29. 2010
As a company bent on providing PDF users with the best conversion solutions, we've gone one step further and developed another solution to your PDF woes.
Today we release SlimPDF, a PDF viewer with the smallest download size—and it’s available for free.
Continue reading "SlimPDF: The Smallest PDF Viewer Available"
Monday, July 19. 2010
As of today, we’re happy to announce that our website got a full makeover and is looking better than ever!

Wish we could say that other than a new design, not much has changed. But we’ve made some new additions which you’ll definitely like.
Continue reading "Investintech.com Gets A Makeover"
Friday, July 16. 2010
When it comes to social media tools, the aim of the game is sharing. One could argue that, Twitter, one of the most popular social tools online, does it best. With one click, you can instantly send out a message to over a thousand people in your network.
Now, you normally don't think "social media" when you say "PDF". But believe it or not, you can. Here's a way to make your PDF more social by adding a Twitter button to your PDF files.
Continue reading "Awesome PDF Tip Off: How To Make A Twitter Button For Your PDF "
Friday, July 2. 2010
A couple of weeks ago Adobe announced a serious security issue involving Flash and before that, a few vulnerabilities for Reader and Acrobat. While the Flash update has already been released, the Reader and Acrobat flaws remained unpatched.
This week, Adobe has finally released the update for Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Here are the details.
Continue reading "Adobe Patch Fixes Critical Flaws in Reader and Acrobat"
Friday, June 25. 2010
We’ve always heard about the PDF format being used and relied upon by millions of users on the web every day, and I think it’s safe to say that a good chunk of that number accesses PDF files within a web browser.
However, if you’re a Chrome user you may not have been part of that chunk. Opening PDF files in Chrome wasn’t as great as one would hope when it was geared towards speed processing and browsing.
But last week, Google announced that the Chrome developer team is working on upgrading PDF support for the browser.
And as improvements for PDF support will put your user experience on a whole new level, you can definitely use a new arsenal of PDF resources to match.
Continue reading "PDF Support In Chrome Is Due For Some Improvements—And So Is Your PDF Toolbox"
Friday, June 11. 2010
This week we've got a short security bulletin and update for you.
Just last week, Adobe announced a security advisory warning concerning their popular Adobe Flash Player. Naturally, the exploited vulnerability also had an impact on both Adobe Reader and Acrobat products.
Continue reading "Have You Updated Your Adobe Flash Software Lately? "
Tuesday, June 8. 2010
Social networking sites are arguably the best way to share information among your friends. When you have a network that contains more than a thousand people, links and user generated content can go viral in a matter of seconds.
This is perfect when promoting your own blog post or videos, but when you start to share content which is a bit more controversial it can result in a partial or blanket ban to restrict users from gaining access to that content.
And these days, social networking sites are getting banned more frequently.
Continue reading "The World Social Networking Ban Race"
Friday, May 28. 2010
If you’re looking for random, but quality content online, chances are you’re looking for a PDF file rather than a regular webpage. The only problem is finding PDF it.
Typing in a category with the PDF search tag attached isn’t efficient in major search engines like Google. While PDF specific search engines are more efficient than simply Googling for PDFs, somehow it doesn’t seem to be as efficient as it can be.
For instance, when you look for a file using one, a single PDF file seems “lost” among a sea of files. It's still a regular search process with regular results, but the actual written entry for the PDFs are listed up in the same way the entry results for a website would be written up.
Would your click on a PDF be determined by the same amount and type of data you're given when you search for a website? A mere description? Searching for PDF files is not the same as searching for a website.
So while trying to find another way of looking for PDF files, I came across another PDF resource, PDFoo.com, which might be a better fit for searching PDFs.
Granted, there are differences in database sizes, content sources, PDF content being selected, indexing—the list goes on, but the approach the site takes makes a significant difference.
Well, you be the judge. Here’s a quick overview on PDFoo.com.
Continue reading "PDFoo.com: Your PDF Search Made Easy"
Friday, May 21. 2010
It’s been a busy month over here, but I’ve managed to keep an eye out on a few interesting bits here and there.
So it’s a short, but interesting speedlink post for this week.
A preview: Adobe’s response to the Flash-iPad feud, an overview of the openness of the PDF, and a couple of new PDF tools to add to your toolbox.
Read on.
Continue reading "PDF Speed-Linking for May"
Friday, April 30. 2010
When we took a close look at Adobe and PDF exploits, F-Secure, a global company specializing in online software services for securing digital content, determined that the PDF was the most exploited application in 2009, and moreover, that the number of PDF exploits was continuing to grow heading into 2010.
Hearing about Adobe and PDF exploits is, unfortunately, nothing new. But what is new is Adobe’s approach to tackling the issue once and for all.
Continue reading "Adobe Looks For Another Solution"
Friday, April 23. 2010
When you want to jazz up your PDFs with some eye catching media, chances are you would think of embedding a Flash video file.
They offer a great way of presenting your content in an interesting manner whether it’s an interactive Flash game or a simple product demo.
What more could you ask for?
Well, in addition to Flash videos, you can now add YouTube videos to your PDFs.
Continue reading "How to Stream YouTube Videos in a PDF File"
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