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AddThis Button Tips : Printing, eBook, PDF tools

AddThis Button has Printing, eBook and PDF featuresThis AddThis Share button is used on web sites all over the Internet but few people know about the printing, PDF and eBook tools. The printing and eBook tools in the AddThis Share button can save you time and money. Of course, it also has “sharing” for services like Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo Mail, Amazon, AOL, Baidu, Blogger, and more.

(If you are a blogger then you might like Curate.us, W3C HTML Validator and Quantcast.)

Everybody can benefit from PrintFriendly, JoliPrint, KindleIt, PDFmyURL and Whois Lookup.

You will find the AddThis Share button in our sidebar on the right. When you click on the orange button, you will see a long list of services that you can use for sharing, printing and converting web pages to eBooks. The names of the services are in alphabetical order. Scroll down the list until you find each of these services and then click on them to try them out on our web site. Read the rest of this entry »

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Top 10 ways to check if a web site is safe and useful

There are many free ways to check if a web site is safe (BTW webmasters and bloggers – check out your own web site!). Here are the Top 10.

If you are looking for free ebooks, free audiobooks, free music and other information on the web then it is a good idea to check out the web site before you go and visit the web site. When your search engine gives you a list of links, you can Copy and Paste the link of the web site into free online web sites like Norton Safe Web, McAfee Site Advisor, Google Safe Browsing, WOT Web of Trust and Virustotal. (We usually start with Virtustotal!)

Web sites like WebPagetest and domaintools can show you a lot of information about the web site and the exact files that the web site will put on your computer.

Finally, you can check out the popularity and usefulness of a web site at Hubspot and Alexa. Read the rest of this entry »

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