I guess this is not something we all need to do on a daily basis, but many of us have been faced with the need to occasionally join pages from separate PDF files together or extract specific pages from multi-page PDF document. There are quite a few free pluggins out there that help with creating PDF files in the first place, my personal preference is CutePDF, but I’ve always struggled with the join and extract stuff - like many of you I don’t want to spend my hard earned cash on one of Adobe’s expensive professional products.
That’s why 
was really keen to share my recent discovery of the ILovePdf website – such a simple website, “does exactly what it says on the tin” as they say in that well known UK advert, and makes the job of combining PDF files or extracting one or more pages so simple.
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The strange thing about writing a WordPress blog is that the posts and the feedback your receive is never quite always what you expected. In my case, I couldn’t understand why I kept getting search hits for queries about Windows 7 users obviously looking for hint and tips on how to access there Plus.Net web mail. Turns out this blog has all the right words to trigger a high search engine ranking, but unfortunately for passing visitor not the right content.
Well the good news now is that thanks to this post, they will (hopefully) be able to find out what they are looking for.
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Just come across a great free resource for tracking real-time website activity – FootPrint – 
that really complements the normal tools used to analyse website visits such as Google Analytics. It only takes a few minutes to sign up and you then immediately get new information about visitor session – as they take place!
- Real-time website traffic analysis
- Individual visitor clickpaths
- Visitor profiles; search term, referer, IP address
- A complete picture of your website traffic.
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One of the main headaches for hard pressed Internet savy business professionals is finding available meetings slots with similarly hard pressed colleagues, as we all have packed agendas and little free time available. This is typically made even more difficult when trying to arrange meetings with business partners who may not be using the same email or corporate diary system – we’ve all been there with endless emails cyclying backwards and forwards to find the “right-slot”.
Thankfully there’s a relatively new Internet start-up on the scene, Tungle.Me, that offers a free solution to solve the frustration and efficiently allow meeting diaries to be shared. Surveys suggest that for some meetings, more time is actually spent arranging and scheduling the meeting than actually spent at the said meeting.
Tungle.me users can personalize their page by choosing days/times they want to make available, adding contact information, photo, links to other online profiles
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In today’s hectic business world the topic of real-time collaboration, where colleagues, client and business associates can share screen remotely to review presentations or key documents, is hot on the agenda. Not only do these tools provide a quick and easy way to interact, they can enable making smarter decisions, help win the deal and save you both time and money in doing so – what more can you ask!
Even better a number of the established players in this market space offer FREE – yep it’s that word again – for hard pressed 
businesses, consultants and entrepreneurs to take advantage of enterprise class tools to helping you getting instant productivity-boosting results. For example, how many miles do you drive each year for those 30-60 minute meeting walking through a presentation – when a teleconference and desktop sharing can achieve the same thing, with environmental benefits too.
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I’ve recently been made aware of a great new job-board IndustryJobs.co.uk that both helps job-seekers, to find their next position, and particulary recruiters, to advertise their vacancies whether permanent roles or short-term contracts.
There is a free introductory offer on at the moment for all posts of new jobs, which make it a great solution for small and large businesses alike. As well as jobs advertised on the site itself, there is also a dynamic feed showing jobs from other leading UK job boards as well. The key advantage this site might have for your roles is the great domain name from a search engine optimisation perspective – it will be interesting to see where it ends up in Google and Yahoo’s results lists
IndustryJobs is based on the free open-source JobberBase solution and 
looks a great implementation.
Just upgraded my desktop PC to Windows 7 and had no problem setting up a shared printer, in my case Canon IP4500 inkjet.
My problem arose when I tried to get an older XP laptop to access the shared printer attached to the Windows 7 desktop PC.
The trouble was down to my Windows 7 desktop PC having new 64 bit drivers that were not compatible with the older 32 bit XP operating system on my laptop. I could find the printer from the laptop – via Control Panel>Printers>Add Printer>A Network Printer.., but the software drivers were not compatible with my old PC and, to make things worse, my Windows 7 desktop wouldn’t allow me to install the older drivers either.
The solution turned out to be first installing the required printer drivers on the XP laptop as a locally installed (even though it wasn’t!) and then changing the port attached to this new printer to a new network port equivalent to the address of the Windows 7 shared address. Read more…
Many small businesses and their employees can still work from home, if only they had access to their work PC.
If you are in this situation LogMeIn Free could be just what you are looking for to keep you working and avoid costly time off or loss of business. This is especially the case in the UK right now as we are in the grip of this winter’s hash weather.
LogMeIn are leading providers of professional remote access software, often
used by big business. Not enryone knows however that they also have a free solution that can provide remote access to any PC or Mac from any other Internet connected computer – so long as their software has previously been installed on the computer you want to access. Read more…
More than 1 in 20 of the 
people who read this blog are likely to suffer a data loss in the next twelve months. These are the startling statistic quoted by the company behind my preferred off-site, on-line backup solution – Mozy.
6% of all PCs will suffer an episode of data loss in any given year ?
Unfortunately, there are numerous ways you can lose vital information, 
hard disk failure, laptop getting dropped or stolen, accidental deletion and data corruption to name a few.
That’s where automated online backup solutions such as Mozy provide great piece of mind, especially as their FREE accounts provide up to 2GB of storage. Read more…
Need to edit those photos, but can’t get your hands on a top-notch editing suite like PhotoShop, well Pixlr may be the answer. What’s more there is nothing to install, you can use it anywhere you can get an Internet connection with a Flash enabled browser as it a cloud-based application.
Images can either be started from scratch, uploaded from your computer or from another website when you begin. Read more…
