Thursday, December 31, 2009

How to Access iGoogle


This time, the new iGoogle places the tabs on the left side of the page instead on the top. It allows you to expand the tabs to see the list of gadgets in a tree view. This new structure works similar with Google Reader to me.


Another big improvement is each gadget has an expanded interface aka canvas view. Within canvas view you’re able to check for more information and deeper functions will be provided too like we can directly read an email or a subscribed feed.



How To Access The New iGoogle

To accession the unofficially release version of the new iGoogle, try the steps below:
  1. Visit http://www.google.com/ig
  2. Paste this in the browser address bar:
    javascript:_dlsetp('v2=1');
  3. To go back to the original version, click “Leave the sandbox” on top of the page or paste this in the browser address bar:
    javascript:_dlsetp('v2=0');

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Add Feedburner Subscriber Count In Text

Step 1

Copy paste the following code into your template, replace feedburner-id with your Feedbuner username. This script will grab you the feed count in numbers.

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//get cool feedburner count
$whaturl="http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=feedburner-id";

//Initialize the Curl session
$ch = curl_init();

//Set curl to return the data instead of printing it to the browser.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

//Set the URL
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $whaturl);

//Execute the fetch
$data = curl_exec($ch);

//Close the connection
curl_close($ch);
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($data);
$fb = $xml->feed->entry['circulation'];

//end get cool feedburner count

//get cool feedburner count
$whaturl="http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=feedburner-id";

//Initialize the Curl session
$ch = curl_init();

//Set curl to return the data instead of printing it to the browser.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

//Set the URL
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $whaturl);

//Execute the fetch
$data = curl_exec($ch);

//Close the connection
curl_close($ch);
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($data);
$fb = $xml->feed->entry['circulation'];

//end get cool feedburner count

Step 2

Paste this anywhere you want and it’ll display a Feedburner subscriber count in text.
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echo $fb;

To style it nicely with your website or blog’s theme, add or and tweak the CSS accordingly.

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

PDF - Free Tools, Tips and Resources

PDFTextOnline – Extract text from PDF and makes these text copy-able.

ShowPDF – A PDF-to-HTML converter.

FreePDFConvert – Convert MS Office, Images, Web Pages, Vector Graphic Formats files to PDF or Convert PDF to Word (doc) or Excel (xls) document, extract Images from PDF.



Document Converter eXPress – Convert files to PDF or Image without the need of installing special software.



Web2PDF Online – A free HTML to PDF Conversion service for your websites that allows your visitors to quickly save useful information in your blogs and websites to PDF files.



Lettos – DOC to ODT & PDF, ODT to PDF a DOC, PDF to TXT

PDFIt – A Firefox extension that allows you to convert any page into a PDF through a online service provided by Touchpdf.com.

htm2PDF – A service to convert your webpages to PDF

Zamzar – A free online file conversion that able to convert PDF to many document formats.



PDFOnline – Convert documents to PDF, PDF service for iPhone, web to PDF and PDF to word.

KoolWire – Just send your documents to pdf@koolwire.com, then you will receive a converted file in PDF format.



HTML2PDF.BIZ – Web Service & API that converts your Website into PDF.

ExpressPDF – ExpressPDF is an online service that lets you convert your Microsoft Office documents to PDF.

Online PDF Converter – You can convert you PDF file to text or image (JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF) absolutely free.

PDFText – Converts your PDF (Acrobat) file to plain text.

RSS2PDF – Free Online RSS, Atom or OPML to PDF Generator.

PDF-o-matic – A simple PHP script that uses HTMLDOC to convert the web page of your choice.

LOOP – A free web-based service that allows you to convert and combine files to PDF.

FeedJournal – Convert RSS and Atom feeds into PDF newspaper.

BookletCreator – A free online tool that allows to create a booklet from a PDF document.

Offline Tools

doPDF – With one click you can convert your Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint documents or your emails and favorite web sites to PDF files.



PDF995 - Pdf995 makes it easy and affordable to create professional-quality documents in the popular PDF file format.

BullZip - BullZip PDF Printer works as a Microsoft Windows printer and allows you to write PDF documents from virtually any Microsoft Windows application.

PrimoPDF - Create PDF files from 300+ file types and optimized for print, screen, ebook, or prepress.



PDFConverter Desktop – PDFConverter Desktop is Windows software which allow to convert your files to PDF directly from your desktop.

OmniFormat - A free document conversion utility which allows dynamic conversion and image manipulation of over 75 file formats.

PDF to JPG – A complete solution for the conversion of PDF documents into JPG, TIFF or other graphical files.


PDF Image Converter – An easy-to-use application that converts PDF pages to image files with excellent quality.

PDF to Text Converter – Easy PDF to Text Converter can extract text from pdf files — it does NOT need Adobe Acrobat software.

PDF Ripper – Extract image, text, chart, formula from PDF files.



PDF to Word Doc Converter – A desktop document conversion tool to convert Adobe PDF file to Microsoft Word Doc file.

PDF Creator – An application for creating PDF documents from almost any windows application that is capable of printing.

Some PDF Convert Tools – Convert PDFs to DOC competently and in batch.

SWF Printer PRO –Convert documents (DOC,XLS, HTML etc) into both standalone flash movie (.swf) presentations with navigation and/or PDF document format with security options support.