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Now you can earn money by displaying contextual ads on your pdf documents. It has been made possible by a combined effort of Adobe with Yahoo. You have to use a special plugin "Ads for pdf" of Adobe PDF Acrobat 9, which will allow you to serve context based ads related to your content, when any user reads your pdf document in his PC. If he clicks on these ads, then a browser window opens and he is taken to the advertisers website. The advertisers pays money, and you are given a share of that.

Ads for Adobe PDF is a new opt-in service that enables publishers to monetize their PDF content through advertising. The advertising service, powered by Yahoo!, automatically matches and displays dynamic, contextual ads in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat when a user views the PDF. Publishers that sign up to participate in this program are eligible to be paid for valid clicks on ads. In this unique advertising relationship, Yahoo! helps connect advertisers from its extensive network of online advertisers with publishers that are distributing content through Adobe PDFs. Yahoo! will incorporate this new advertising inventory into its portfolio of online advertising opportunities.

There are a total of 10 different ad sizes and a variety of ad color palettes, including a combination of border, background and text colors. The Ad formats are similar to hugely popular Adsense ads.

This will surely pave a new income stream for offline publishers and content developers.

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Regular Internet Users are today bombarded with boat-laods of Emails each day, and it sometimes becomes difficult to search for the important emails.

Last week Microsoft Office Labs announced a new MS Outlook addon, which  assigns priorities from 0 to 3, to the arriving emails. This priorities is assigned based upon your preferences. There seems to be many factors taken into consideration while deciding the priorities, including the name of the sender, whether the receiver is added in ‘To, or ‘CC’ or BCC’. You can also change or assign the priorities.

Email Prioritizer also has a DO NOT DISTURB feature, which allows you to restrict receiving new emails for a specifies time from 10 minutes to 4 hours.

The product is still in development stage, and Microsoft is collecting User Data to further improve upon it. 

Email Prioritizer is a plug-in for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 (running on Exchange Server) that helps you manage email overload. This concept test provides a “do not disturb” button that temporarily pauses new email arrival, and prioritizes email with a 0-3 star rating system. We hope this prototype helps you focus on the emails that are most important to you.

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If you are on the lookout for a trusted source for advice or review of a computer item, then ComputerShopper.com is a useful website. Today it is one of the largest tech review sites on the web with daily reviews and blog entries about the latest entries in the computer industry. If you do a modest search, you will notice that there are lots of computer review sites on the Internet. The prime purpose of these sites to sell computers and related items, and make money by earning commissions on these sales. The review lets the viewer understand the intricacies of the product and allows him to compare its features and prices vis-a-vis other similar offerings in the market. This seems to the way to sell computers online and ComputerShopper.com seems no different from this model.

But a visit to them quickly tells that something is different here.

The reviews are in-depth. They are neatly arranged and categorized. There are multiple ways to search for a review on your desired product. The site structure is neat with easy navigation. And the best part is that they are not restricted to computers only. Here you can find the tech reviews on every thing techie, right from Computers to peripherals to Cellphones to GPS tools to Software to MP3 players and even HDTV and home theatre systems.

They seems to be having a special association with Dell Computers. Here you can find special mention of Dell Laptops including Dell XPS m1330. For the benefit of newbies, they have an extensive pool of How-To and Buying Guides, which are real helpful even for some of computer nerds. Like a true professional site, they are running a decently updated blog, where they discuss the latest trends and new products and also run a forum, with an active user participation.

Over a decent useful tech review site, which you may consider to visit, if you are seriously looking to buy online something techie.

If you are a music buff, and often search Internet for mp3, mp4 music clips, video for download, then you will surely love to have MP3Videoraptor on your desktop. This great tool is provided by RapidSolution Software AG, who are the leader in this field.

What is MP3Videoraptor: It is basically a music search engine, which allows you to search for your favorite music or video, by the name of artist or album, and allows you to download the same in your hard disk. Thus you can make a personalized album of your favorite music very easily. It’s an Internet media search program that records music and video from a number of websites, including, Last.fm, YouTube, and SoundClick. It also has a ringtone maker to generate ringtones for your cell phone, an ID3 tag editor, and a built-in CD burner.

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But isn’t it illegal: No, it’s not. Because when you search for a particular music, they actually search for the that music on the many Web 2.0 webradio sites and play that file in the background. While playing, they record it and then serve you to download. This way, you are not copying something and infringing upon somebody’s copyrights, but instead you are considered to be recording the personalized music of your own, and hence legal.

What are its feature:

• Music and Video Search: Just type the name of your favorite artists or album and start search. It is incredibly fast to search what you want. You can select the media type, whether music or video. You can also just click on the Artists button which brings up a list of genres and suggested artists. Once the list comes up, just click on any of the search results to start the download process.
• Autoload: If you want to avoid clicking and downloading each file individually, then it is ideal for you. It makes full use of your Internet bandwidth to quickly build your media library by downloading the selected files one by one on its own. If you are a bit worried about your download bills from your ISP, then you can configure the number of files you wanna download, default is a huge..100.
• Surf & Catch: This Tab lists links to many sites like Pandora, Last.fm, MySpace, and YouTube. When you click on them, they are opened in your Internet Browser. As you surf these sites and play some file, that file is automatically downloaded onto your hard-disk. This feature also has links to some adult sites, so parents are advised to use the parental control feature here.
• Built-in Player: Although it is just a basic media player, but still quite useful with all the basic features included.
• CD Burner: It makes it a complete tool.
• Ringtone Maker: This is the bonus feature. With the downloaded mp3 file, you can make cool ringtones for your mobile phones with just one click of your mouse button. You can download these to your mobile phones through WAP or through your hard disk.

The best part, which I liked about mp3videoraptor was the excellent quality of its downloads. It is really outstanding.

Update: All of the 10 FREE MP3Videoraptor License Keys, which we have mentioned earlier, have already been sent. The offer has now ended.

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With the crashing of prices of Laptops, the difference in the prices of Laptops and Desktops is reducing day by day. More and more people are turning towards Laptops for their computing needs. Laptop manufacturers are also responding to this demand by bringing out newer models with more features and at lesser prices. In such a situation, it sometimes becomes difficult for an average Laptop buyer to select the best option for meeting his requirements and he wishes to have a trusted Laptop buying guide.

Laptopical.com is a website, which satisfies this demand. It is primarily a blog, which is dedicated to everything about Laptops. A compact PR5 weblog, with neat interface for a nice user experience. Besides the usual stuff, here you will find

• Laptop News: About upcoming laptops, new technology, and exciting gadgets that could affect your mobile computing life. They are basically the blog posts, written by the qualified team behind Laptopical.com.
• Laptop Reviews: Of the latest laptops from all leading manufacturers like Acer Laptops and others. The reviews may not be going into too much of the details, but are well written and provide comprehensive information sufficient for an average buyer to choose the best option suitable for his needs.
• Laptop Opinions: The personal user experience, which matters.

Their reviews are neatly organized and easily comprehendible. First they give the technical specifications of the Laptop. Then they go into the details of the processor, memory, HDD, OS, screen size, battery longevity, pricing of the laptop and the best part is their Pros and Cons sections, where they give their opinion in crisp and lucid manner.

Like most of the websites on the Internet, the primary aim of this weblog is also money making. That is understandable also. Laptopical makes money by providing you links to some of the best quality cheap laptops, right from the trusted online marketplace of BizRate. Here you can find a few best deals happening. So, go ahead, use their services and buy through them.

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Today there are many file synchronization and file sharing utilities available for users, but when it comes to ease of use, most of them are not very user friendly.

But Syncplicity, is a great file synchronization utility, which has a neat user interface and is easy to use. It seems to be a nice tool for collaborative working, where more than one users are involved on same files. You can synchronize, share or backup your files, both offline as well as online. It provides an ideal platform, where you can store and share your files and documents with your friends and colleagues in a secured and user friendly manner.

Features:

• Real-Time Backup
• Sharing made Simple
• Access anytime, anywhere
• Multiple Computers, One View
• An Elegant Experience
• Bridges the Online and Offline Worlds Secure

Syncplicity backs up all your files, keeps them synced and up-to-date across all your computers and computers of people you’ve shared them with, allows you and your friends to access them online (even if your computers are turned off), and can even sync them with Facebook and Google Docs.

At present, Syncplicity is Free for individual personal uses of data storage upto 2GB and use on two computers. For more than that you will have to upgrade your account for $9.99 per month.

For all my Media Player requirements, I had been using the built-in Media Player of Windows and Real Player till now. They were almost doing all the jobs, which I required and I was sort of happy till the time I was contacted for a review of the powerful Media Application Blaze Media Pro, which is an all-in-one media converter, editor, burner, and ripper software application supporting all popular media formats.

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Blaze Media Pro offers you a complete Media Solution. It allows you the video conversion, DVD ripper, editing, recording, burning, playback, and many more functions. With Blaze Media video converter and audio converter, the CD burning is just a cake-walk. It supports all forms of video data CD, VCD, SVCD, and DVD. There are a lot of other advanced features which make it a complete media solution software. For instance..

Video capture and video creation

Combining and extraction

Video editing

Audio and video merging

One click copying of music CDs

MusicID audio recognition

Lyrics search

Audio tag editing, FreeDB support, and much more.

Extraction of sound files

Creation of video from still images

Support to all audio formats like MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG, MPEG-4, AIFF, M4A, AAC, AC3, FLAC, and ALAC

Support to all video format like MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI, WMV, ASF, Flash (SWF and FLV), iPod, PSP, 3GP, and MOV

The Blaze Media Pro offers you a comprehensive full-featured audio editor. The capabilities include Amplify, Null Amplitude, Insert/Delete Silence, Insert Noise, Insert Pulse, Insert Sinus, Fade In/Out, Invert, Normalize, Reverse, Delay, Flanger, Vibrato, Stretch, Mix. Mix from File, Paste from File, Paste from Clipboard, Copy to Clipboard, Delete Selection, Save Selection, Zoom, Convert, Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Crop, Filters (Band Pass, Low Pass, High Pass, Low Shelf, High Shelf), Input/Output Volume Control, Audio Information Read/Write, and much more.

That is too big a list of features, and most of the common users might not be requiring many of them. But if you are professional or a true media enthusiast, then you may consider to use Blaze Media.

The trial version if FREE to use, but the Full licensed version is available for $50.