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Great Find: Eyes on Design Photoshop Tutorials

December 16, 2006 by Liz

Expert or Beginner?

I know I need some of these.

Great Find: Eyes on Design Photoshop Tutorials

Permalink: http://www.eyesondesign.net/pshop/tuts.htm

Target Audience: Photoshop users

Content: I need them. If you don’t, you’re probably not reading this. If the ones at the top sound too hard for you, look at the ones at the bottom. Click on the screen shot below to go there.

I hope you have time to try some. I hope that I have time to.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Great Find: Google Docs as a Blogging Tool

October 26, 2006 by Liz

So Why Not Try?

When I went to write about Thord Hedengren’s article in The Blog Herald, I found he had so convinced me that I had only typed three characters into WordPress before I thought, Why not write this post in Google Docs to see if you agree?

Great Find: Docs & Spreadsheets as a blogging tool
Permalink: http://www.blogherald.com/2006/10/24/docs-spreadsheets-as-a-blogging-tool/
Target Audience: anyone who uses word processing or blogging software

Content: I’m only this far, and already I’m saying, “Thank you, Thord.” This is so cool. The screen is brighter. I can see. I’m enjoying the experience like kid with a new toy. I can link to a URL, an email, a bookmark, or another Google Doc or Spreadsheet. You’ll be pleased to know THERE IS EVEN A SPELL CHECKER — it’s fast and painless.

As Google says I can “Create and share your projects online and access them from anywhere.” I can also post right from here to my blog, if I want. There’s even a Preview Screen. My only wish was that it didn’t save automatically, quite so often. Here are some screen shots of what I was looking at making this document. Click to enlarge the images to full size.

Read Thord’s review, believe what he says, and leave him a comment that says I agree.

— ME “Liz” Strauss

Fun Find: Blog Juice Anyone?

October 20, 2006 by Liz

Another Blog Value Calculator

I decided when I saw this the third time that I had to bring it back to share with you because it’s such fun to play with. So here you go. It’s the one with no pulp!

Great Find: Blog Juice Calculator

Permalink: http://www.text-link-ads.com/blog_juice/index.php?url=www.successful-blog.com&cat=technology
Target Audience: Bloggers who like to keep score

Content: It’s pretty simple really. TextLink Ads has developed their own algorithm for determining a blog’s authrority, revelance, importance, validity, value, — you choose the word — they chose juice. Click the logo and find out how much juice your blog has.

If you want to review a site ad, it’s Buy Links> Blogs> Business> Successful and Outstanding Bloggers.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Great Find: PDF Online — Free

October 7, 2006 by Liz

Writer Girl, Not Techie Girl

I can’t hide it. I’m a bit of a software maven, but no one in their right mind would ever call me a techie . . . That makes for so many reasons that I value my techie friends so much. One is they know where to find cool widgets, plug-ins, and online tools that I haven’t discovered. TechZ mentioned this one among a whole list of cool links on his blog TechZOnline.net last week.

Great Find: PDF Online

Permalink: http://www.pdfonline.com/

Audience/Topic: Anyone who wants to share ebooks, white papers, or other documents

Content: PDF Online is a free service that offers more than you might have hoped for — a quick and free PDF conversion online service, which means it works from wherever you might be. The process is simple. There is no installation. Submit documents to their server. PDF.Online generates and emails you the finished file.

What’s their rationale for providing a free service?

First of all, it doesn’t cost us anything to run this service. Developed using easyPDF SDK (our proprietary PDF Engine), PDF Online server can process thousands of PDF conversions per day (with 99% success rate) and runs 24×7 with no human operator.

Secondly, it’s our way of saying thank you for helping us improve our easyPDF SDK’s performance and value to a level no one, not even AdobeÃÂ®, can match.

Of course, they also want you to buy their server and desktop applications, their printer driver, and their other products. Still there’s no heavy sales pitch — just presentations.

Take a look. Click the title below. You never know when you need a quick .pdf file.

Now I need that .pdf plug-in. . . .

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Great Find: Library Thing

October 1, 2006 by Liz

Catalog Your Books Online

Cat Morley of Designers Who Blog found this one for me. I have a feeling I know a few follks who are going to love it. . . .

Great Find: Library Thing

Permalink: http://www.librarything.com/

Audience/Topic: Everyone who reads

Content: Imagine your own Library of Alexandria, a personal wonder of the world. Then imagine you wouldn’t have to pack and move it each time that you changed where you decided to live. Heaven. Yes?

Library Thing boasts over 3.8 million books on member bookshelves for you to peruse. It can search Amazon, the Library of Congress, and 45 other world libraries. It’s a social network of people with similar libraries to yours. Tag your books as might on Flickr. Import and export titles. Library Thing even has it’s own blog! Click on the title shot below to check this wonderful use of technology to match readers with great books and people who love them.

It’s so much fun to see what’s there!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Great Find: ABCs of Blogging Part 1

September 20, 2006 by Liz

It’s September

Do you know your ABCs? Let’s start with A-L . . .

Great Find: The ABCs of Blogging by Self-Help Daily

Permalink: http://selfhelpdaily.com/the-abcs-of-blogging/

Audience/Topic: Everyone who blogs

Content: Leave behind the Endless Septemberness. Get a refresher of the blogging basics. Slef-Help Daily is offering just the right things — the real things that bloggers care about written with that Self-Help Daily touch. Click the ABCs below to go on over. It’ll help you remember why you’re blogging. I promise.

Thanks Joi, for reminding us!

–ME “Liz” Strauss