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How many times have you opened up a file or email and been prompted as to whether you have the latest Acrobat Reader?  Millions of users and and businesses use PDF (Portable Document Format) but the cost can be a little out of most people’s budget so I went in search of a more affordable way to convert my documents into PDF’s.

A PDF is the “file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange” according to the definition offered by Wikipedia.  As of right now it is an open standard but is being prepared to be submitted to ISO (International Organization for Standardization) for approval as a formal open standard.  There are over 200 million PDF documents out there on the web.  It is becoming the standard for electronic document exchange especially for government agencies and large corporations around the globe.  The benefits of using PDF is that (more…)

Online marketing is the constant pursuit of the “golden ring” and the hope is not to spend too much money to make some money.  If you are attempting to do some online marketing without spending too much of your hard earned cash then here are a few ideas.

Reciprocal links, or backlinks, are basically you link to my website and I’ll link to yours.  You should do about five or ten of these a week.  Remember though (more…)

Many people think Web 3.0 is science fiction or even fantasy but I quickly found out that it is scientific fact and that if you are  not prepared for this brave new world you will be left behind. Information and how it is gathered and how we use it is all in store for a major over haul. With this in mind, businesses are going to have to rethink their online presence and how they want to utilize this dawning of a new age.

First off we need to define Semantic Web (more…)