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This show originates from www.weeklywebtools.com This is show #47
Doc Metrics Blends Flash and PDFs to Provide Analytics for PDFS.
You can put flash forms into your PDF and get information about how each reader is using your pdf (how long, what they’ve read, if they’ve printed it, and much more). It can be as low as 99 a month. That was the one thing I did NOT like about the service is there is no pricing sheet. You HAVE to sign up to get that information. You can see it at . http://www.docmetrics.com/
Viral PDF Tool
If you have affiliates you may want to look into this tool. It allows you to make brandable ebooks in pdfs. You put some code into your word document, and later the viral pdf tools replace those tools with the affiliate links. So an affiliate opens the branding tool, point it at the pdf, enter their information into the prompts and “poof” the same ebook now has their affiliate links in the pdf.
This could be very useful if you have an ebook that is a teaser for a product. Your affiliate can promote the book with this free ebook (that contains their links). You can provide the rebranding tool to all your affiliates. It’s only $37 in July 08. Check it out at viralpdf.com
Free PDF Printer Allows You To Control Web Links
http://www.pdfprinter.com/
PDF Printer is a free tool to create PDFs. This free tool allows you to Convert documents—text and/or graphics—to PDF from any of 250 different formats. Create clickable hyperlinks, quickly and easily, to transfer viewers elsewhere.
Make Your Own Comics
One way you can help your viral efforts is to make something funny and outrageous that people want to forward to their friends. Over at http://comiqs.com/ you can add “bubble text” in minutes to pictures and more. It’s free, and its easy to use.
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SmartDD is a awesome looking tool that allows merchants to sell digital products without people sending the download link to all their friends (or worse, posting it at digg.com ). What it does it when someone purchases the product, it emails them a dynamic link. When the download is done, the link is inactivated. The following the smartdd follows up via email to make sure the download was successful. The best part of this software is there is a free version for those who only have a few items. You can try it and in the event you need more flexibility you can upgrade to the full version for around 75 bucks. Sign up for Free Version
Ticket Desk Pro
Another cool script I am now using is Ticket Desk Pro. This is an amazing piece of software for the price (less than 20 bucks when I purchased it). This has a ticketing system, a F.A.Q. feature, a “frequent responses” feature, and a LIVE HELP option. I really figured it was too good to be true till I saw it on the Download Guard site (and I know Sam wouldn’t use it if it wasn’t quality). Check it out at ticketdeskpro.com They are using an interesting script that raises the price by a nickel (.05) every time someone purchases the script. Very interesting. That script will become available on Thursday 5/16/ at www.frankhaywood.com
Make WordPress Themes From Scratch
I found a great article in Website Magazine (it’s free, and its awesome subscribe today). It has a list of online (and offline) WordPress Theme generation tools.
http://www.cssez.com/
http://templatr.cc/
http://www.yvoschaap.com/wpthemegen/
http://www.wppal.com/
http://www.wordpressthemegen.com/ (offline tool).
The WordPress Theme Gen tool allows you to create themes offline. The rest of the tools provide you with the ability to create WordPress themes online quickly and easily.
Debut Free Video Capture Screencast Software
NCH makes a number of free titles all intended to get you to buy their “next level” software.
You can find debut at http://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/index.html
