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Communicating Using Technology
Vol. 2 Issue 14 July 8, 2003
Published and Copyright by Dave Paradi
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In this issue:
1. Searching the Web
** Special Offer for subscribers **
2. Free PDF Creators
3. Useful Resource - Indezine.com
Notice for Toronto, ON area professional speakers
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Are you frustrated trying to find that e-mail, file or
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Learn how to quickly find an e-mail in your e-mail
folders, a file on a local or shared drive or specific
text in a document with this new e-book:
http://www.communicateusingtechnology.com/findinfo.htm
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1. Searching the Web
If you get frustrated trying to find a specific e-mail, a
file or text in a document, the next few issues of the
newsletter will be particularly relevant for you. I will be
sharing excerpts from my latest e-book titled "The 20% You
REALLY Need to Know About Finding Information on Your Windows
PC". Today I want to explain the differences between web
search sites so you can decide which one would be best for
you. The first type of search site is known as a portal. A
portal site is one where people submit sites for review and
if the search site staff think the site is of value, they add
it to their index of sites. The best examples of portal
sites are Yahoo!, MSN and dmoz. The advantage to portal
sites is that they tend to exclude many of the useless sites
out there. The disadvantage is that you will only find sites
that have been submitted, so many useful sites may be missed.
Some portal sites now charge to be listed, so you may be only
seeing those who have paid to be listed. The second type of
search site is known as a spider. A spider site is one where
their computers search across the entire web (known as
crawling the web) for all sites that exist. When they find a
site, they index it based on the content and keywords
supplied by the site. The most common spider sites are
Google, AltaVista, Inktomi and AllTheWeb. The advantage to a
spider site is that it includes the vast majority of the web
(no spider can include every web site that exists) so you
have more sites available to your search. The disadvantage
is that the searches will return many more sites that are not
relevant and it will require more time to evaluate the
results. Whichever type of site you decide to use, check out
this article from PC Magazine that rates the search engines
and shares some strategies for using them:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1047718,00.asp
** Special Offer:
Whenever I release a new book I always like to give my
subscribers a special offer for purchasing it. Until the end
of July, if you buy "The 20% You REALLY Need To Know About
Finding Information on Your Windows PC" online through
powells.com, here is my offer to you. E-mail me the order
number on the receipt you receive from powells.com and I will
send you a special report on how to send large files via e-
mail by splitting them into smaller files. This special
report includes complete instructions on how to do it, the
free utility that does it and a set of instructions you can
e-mail with the file pieces so the receiver can put it back
together. Offer expires midnight July 31st! Click here to
check out the book and place your order:
http://www.communicateusingtechnology.com/findinfo.htm
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2. Free PDF Creators
When you create Adobe PDF documents, I always suggest you use
the real deal - Adobe's software. But some people are
looking for a cheaper way to create PDF files and don't mind
losing some of the features or tools that Adobe offers. Here
are two free PDF file creation programs that I have heard of.
The first is at http://site3.pdf995.com. They offer a free
PDF creator that installs a print driver allowing any
application to create a PDF file. If you pay $9.95 you can
register and remove the nag screen that comes up. Another
free PDF creation tool is at http://www.neevia.com/express/.
It claims to support many file formats, converts via e-mail
if desired and can convert to version 3 for compatibility.
While these may the a low cost way to go, if you are creating
files for others to see and use, I still recommend the
control of the Adobe Acrobat software. The ideas in my "How
to Make Your E-Documents Stand Out From the Crowd" special
report are only tested on Adobe's software. Click this link
for more information on the special report:
http://www.communicateusingtechnology.com/edocuments.htm
3. Useful Resource - Indezine.com
This is another good PowerPoint site, offering articles,
ideas and a great links page. Geetesh Bajaj also publishes a
newsletter which I find valuable. Check it out at:
http://www.indezine.com
Notice for Toronto, ON area Professional Speakers:
I will be a special PowerPoint resource at the upcoming "Get
Better, Get Busier" professional speaker boot camp August
15-17, 2003 (I will be there on August 16th). For more info,
call 1-888-866-3603.
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Would you like me to speak to your professional association
or chapter event? I am always looking for opportunities to
share my information with others and would consider speaking
to your group if you are in or near the following areas:
Rochester, NY, Buffalo NY, Detroit, MI, Cleveland, OH,
Pittsburgh, PA or Toronto, ON. Just e-mail me at:
dave@communicateusingtechnology.com for more info.
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Check out the books, e-books and other learning tools at:
http://www.communicateusingtechnology.com/tools.htm
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