Looking for an easy way to turn your WordPress powered blog into a book? Anthologize is a plugin for WordPress that will turn WordPress into a platform for publishing electronic text.  Anthologize gives you all the tools you need to publish your work in a new and exciting way.

Once you have this plugin installed, you can grab your own posts, import feeds for other websites or create new content within Anthologize.  Then all you need to do is edit your work, put it in a basic outline format and then publish.  You can export your masterpiece as a PDF, ePUB, or TEI based file.

If you have ever dreamed of publishing some of your blog posts together, in an easy to download format, Anthologize gives you all the basic tools to get the job done.

As somebody who did this the hard way with Word and a few select plugins and work arounds, I wish I had Anthologize handy when putting together my Everyone is a Marketer eBook.  It probably would have saved me a lot of time. I will definitely be giving Anthologize a closer look when it comes to any future publishing I might do.

You can pick up Anthologize for free and start turning your blog into a book today.

While working on a new eBook, I needed an easy way to get Microsoft Office Word 2007 to export my writings as a PDF file.  After doing a little searching around, I found an add-in that will do just that.

This simple download allows you to export and save files in the PDF format in Microsoft Office 2007.

This download works with the following Office programs:

• Microsoft Office Access 2007
• Microsoft Office Excel 2007
• Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007
• Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
• Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
• Microsoft Office Publisher 2007
• Microsoft Office Visio 2007
• Microsoft Office Word 2007

You can download the add-in here.

After you install this download open the document you want to publish and then, depending on the program you are using, select Save to PDF from the Office or File menu.  Hope this comes in handy for anybody else looking for an easy way to save files from Microsoft Office Word 2007 to the PDF format.

Working with WordPress is almost like learning a new language.  Not only do you need to learn some of the basic fundamentals of PHP, but you also need to learn what WordPress tags go where, and what they do. Since nobody has the time to do that these days, I thought it would be about time to break out my WordPress cheat sheet collection.

This first WordPress cheat sheet comes from Ekin Ertac’s blog:

It covers a lot of the basics for your template and theme creation tags, and can also be downloaded at blog.ekinertac.com.

The WP Help Sheet is the next one I want to show you.  Rather than downloading a PDF, everything is stored on one single webpage you can bookmark and save for later.

Last, but not least, we have a cheat sheet for template tags to use in WordPress from DBS Interactive.  If you have a hard time remembering that one tag that pulls the data you need, this website is the perfect reference tool for the occasion.

Hope these three cheat sheets help out the next time you dive into WordPress template editing, and get a little lost.

A new online tool, JustPaste.it makes it easy to share text and graphics over the Web.  This service allows you to quickly paste text directly from your word processor of choice onto the online page.  You can then spruce up your documents with text formatting, colors and more.

By using “Upload images” module you can easily add new graphic to your notes. You can embed videos by using [video] marks, for example: [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOXvdfcct8g[/video].

There really isn’t much more to say – it is a simple tool that gets the job done. Two other features worth mentioning are:

• Easily Export to PDF
• Easily Import from MS Word

Also, each page can be assigned a custom name, such as justpaste.it/anything.

So if you are looking for a tool to help you quickly share your writings with others, JustPaste.it is the way to go.

Looking for an online resource where you can put together your resume?  If you are looking for a new job, or perhaps just wanting to organize your previous work experience, one unique place to get the task of organizing a resume is JobSpice.

This web site allows you to sign up and then easily create a resume in minutes.  All you do is fill in the blanks, and add more information when needed by clicking the add new section link.  Some of the details you can list include:

• Contact Info
• Objective
• Education
• Experience
• Achievements
• Affiliations
• Skills
• Publications
• Custom Information

Once you get the basics filled out, you can then preview the resume and pick the style you want to use for it.  Each one is different, but they all give your resume that professional look and feel.  When finished, you can share your resume, save it, print it, or save it as a PDF file.

Write up your own resume today with JobSpice, it makes organizing your thoughts during this sometimes tedious task a lot easier.

Ever been browsing an article or guide online that you wish you could print out, without all the junk that the web site provides?  Print Friendly offers to make any web site out there easier to print.  You can use their web site tool to enter the URL you wish to simplify for your printer, or use the bookmarklet to gain access to the tool at any time. 

You can then e-mail the printer friendly version to your friends, tweet about it, or edit the document removing pictures or blocks of text. 

Want to add this interactivity to your own web site layout, maybe under each article that you post?  You can do that too by grabbing the Print Friendly button code.  For WordPress users, there is even a plugin you can install to add it to all your blog posts automatically.

Overall, Print Friendly is a pretty nice service, if you are looking to do a little article simplification, perfect for print. 

I love looking at bookmarklets.  These handy bookmarks that allow just about any browser to do even more amazing things are really handy to have.  Want to convert any web page to a PDF to read later?  I have found a bookmarklet that does that too.

The people behind PDF Download have produced their  own bookmarklet to convert web pages into high-quality PDF files free from any browser.  Just drag and drop this link to your bookmarks toolbar, and click it when you want to export to PDF:

Save Page as PDF

Here are the setup instructions for all the various browsers out there:

• Google Chrome
• Safari
• Firefox (also see full add-on)
• Internet Explorer (also see full add-on)
• Opera

Only negative I could find is I got the “server is too busy” message more than a couple of times.

Know of anymore bookmarklets that will allow you to export a page into an entirely different format?  Me neither,  but if you do – please share.  PDF Download’s solution will work for the time being though.  Save on paper and export to PDF.  That tree outside your window will thank you.

• FilesTube.com
• FileField.net
• Rapidshare1.com
• OplaHol.com
• Shareminer.com
• FileCrop.com
• FilesBot.com
• RapidshareData.com
• MegaDownload.net
• 4shared.com

What About Google? Of course, the ultimate alternative to all of these would be doing a file search in Google.  How do you do so?  Well, just start any Google search with filetype: and then put in the file type you want to search for.  Taken from Google, here are the most popular file formats you may want to search for using this trick.

• Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf)
• Adobe PostScript (ps)
• Lotus 1-2-3 (wk1, wk2, wk3, wk4, wk5, wki, wks, wku)
• Lotus WordPro (lwp)
• MacWrite (mw)
• Microsoft Excel (xls)
• Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt)
• Microsoft Word (doc)
• Microsoft Works (wks, wps, wdb)
• Microsoft Write (wri)
• Rich Text Format (rtf)
• Shockwave Flash (swf)
• Text (ans, txt)

So if you are looking for a .txt file about hosting, you would type into the Google search box… 

filetype:txt hosting

So, if you are searching for a file on the web – you might try these resources or this neat Google tip.  Either way should get the job done for you.

Better PDF Editing Abilities

Need an easy way to edit PDF files without the expensive PDF editor?  In the past, I have told you about creating PDFs via Open Office.   However, what if you could convert those PDFs to Word doc files to edit instead?  Pickup the Free PDF to Word Converter for Windows to get the job done.

Better PDF Browser Support

How about better PDF support for the browser?  PDF files are notorious for crashing your modern web browser.  So with that said, what tool can you use to make the experience better?  A browser add-on named PDF Download.  It’s features include:

• Convert Web pages to PDF. (NEW) Convert any Web pages to great looking PDF files, and then save, share, print or archive them.
• View PDF as HTML. View the contents of PDF files faster and eliminate browser problems by instantly converting any Web-based PDF to a browser-friendly HTML Web page.
• Control PDF files in Firefox. Stop crashes and get the upper hand on Web-based PDF files by automating and controlling how your Firefox or Flock browsers deal with them.

PDF Download works with Firefox 2 & 3, Flock 1, and Internet Explorer 7 & 8 (beta) web browsers.

Better Printing Abilities to the PDF Format

Now this one isn’t really PDF’s problem, however I do have a solution.  If you are wanting to cut down on the paper you use, printing to the PDF format can save you some cash in the long run as well as conserve that printing paper.  All you need to do is grab PrimoPDF for Windows.  It will add the ability for you choose “Print as PDF” from any print screen.  All you have to do is select it as the printer of your choice.

So what other things bug you about PDF files, or have you found any other solutions to your PDF powered problems?  It might not be the best standard in the world, however it can come in handy from time to time.

For some reason, PDFs remain a popular file format.  Created back in 1993 by Adobe Systems, PDF (the Portable Document Format) makes it easy to share a document with text, specific fonts, 2-D vector graphics and images.  Instead of downloading the PDF to view (as most of us do) I want to introduce you to a new way of dealing with these files without the need of any download.

PDFMeNot.com is a free Online PDF viewer. All you do is give them the URL to the PDF in question, and they will make it viewable for you using their online tools.  They also allow for you to upload a PDF too.

If you like the service, you might be intersted in the fact that you can use it in a number of different ways too.  From Firefox extensions to bookmarklets, they have many ways you can take advantage of the service.

• Learn More About the PDFMeNot.com Tools

The easiest way to use it would be to include “http://pdfmenot.com/view/” before your PDF link.  As an example, try this link out:

http://pdfmenot.com/view/http://www.webhostingshow.com/includes/HostingGuideEbook.pdf

So add PDFMeNot into your web developer’s toolkit.  This is one of those services that you might not need everyday, but you will be happy to have it when you do need it.