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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.  

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Despite the improvements Adobe has developed for Acrobat and Reader, it’s still tough to stay on top of creative hackers who love to use the PDF.  

To that end, security researchers like Didier Stevens finds ways to hack into an application in order to anticipate potential vulnerability points and any associated security risks that can occur.

Well, he found one last week for the PDF.  And this one can get you more easily than you think.

While Google may be the first search engine you run to on a day to day basis, it isn’t always the most efficient way to find something online. 

Think about it. Even though you can sift through the 1,000,000,000+ results, by the 10 th page, if you can’t find any other enlightening information on your topic, you’ll stop and type in different keywords that’ll yield the same process. Google’s search engine results can only go so far. 

There has to be a better way to crawl around on the web, right?

With DIY tools anyone can create and personalize a simple HTML webpage.

But as you may know, that simple HTML page can be made up of content coming from different types of formats, which means dealing with content like JPEG images, Word document text, and even the hard-to-edit PDF file.  

Photoshop can do almost everything when it comes to digital image editing. So it’s no wonder that there are more tutorials, tips, tricks and add-ons than one might be able to read in a lifetime.  So we’ve compiled a handy list of them to make it easier.  

Below, you’ll find a listing of Photoshop sites, tutorials and books; free resources, help resources and inspirational resources; brushes and patterns, actions and plug-ins, even a list of stock image sites!

We’ve picked the best, the coolest and the most useful.

F-Secure, a  global company specializing in online software services for securing digital content, has crunched the numbers and has announced the results: Adobe Reader is the most exploited application of 2009, ousting Microsoft Word from the top spot.

It’s sometimes taken for granted that the default.docx format can be used by all. Simply clicking on the Save icon, or pinky-middle fingering CTRL + S on the keyboard comes naturally and on instinct.

However, without the Office 2007 plug-in or viewer, you’re at a loss for opening, editing—or heck, even simply viewing, a .docx file on the fly. A real problem indeed if you’re at a public computer or on the go with a mobile device.

Well, no need to look any further for a solution because we’ve been hard at work and have developed a fully functional .Docx to .Doc converter. 

Aspiring webmasters beware. . . .Creating your own website can be appealing, but it’s also a major undertaking.  Having done some preliminary research, you may have already learned that maintaining it alone can be difficult.

Yet, never fear—there are efficient ways of doing it.

Wordpress is one of the major blogging platforms online. This is because Wordpress is not only free, but it can also be catered to the individual needs of its users.

As a result of continuous efforts of the large community of Wordpress developers, there is a huge collection of Wordpress plugins from which you can choose and embed on your blog.  You can customize your own personal space according to your own personal taste.

Moreover, Wordpress developers have created many plugins that can also take advantage and integrate the features of other digital documents, like the PDF, right on your blog. If you’re looking for some handy PDF plugins, here they are.

Let’s have a look at the top 10 PDF plugins for Wordpress blogs.

Security issues are at the center of tech news this week.

First, great news for Adobe Reader and Acrobat users everywhere: security patches for the vulnerabilities that surfaced near the end of 2009 is now available.

Looking to keep up with PDFs in 2010?

With the speed at which documents are making their way online— file hosts, document search engines, online processing, and real-time collaboration, you might want to get your PDFs browser-friendly. 

Admittedly, the PDF format isn’t well received when it comes to viewing it in a browser.  Download times, a heavy GUI, and an overly long scrolling document are the top 3 turn-offs users are looking to avoid. If you need a quick solution to any one of these, here’s a neat tool that’ll take your PDFs and turn them into viewer-friendly file.