Adobe PDF Guide – Everything You Wanted to do with PDFs

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSGuAJxP-YxOnocF1q46onpNK-yNo9-luX29SkR5fYiRcOPdmxYTQ" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSGuAJxP-YxOnocF1q46onpNK-yNo9-luX29SkR5fYiRcOPdmxYTQ" /></a></div><br />Adobe PDF is probably the best format for sharing documents as the layout and formatting is preserved across all platforms, the documents are read-only and also because most computers and mobile devices can easily open PDF files.<br /><br /> This guide shares a host of useful things you can do with the PDF file format with the help of software tools and web apps that don’t cost a penny. You can edit PDF files (no Adobe Acrobat required), combine multiple PDFs as one, extract pages from PDFs and so much more. Let’s get started.<br /><br /><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"> The Best PDF Tools & Apps</span></span><br /><h4><em>1.</em> How do I create PDF documents without Adobe Acrobat?</h4>You can use Google Chrome to print web pages as PDFs (<a href="http://www.labnol.org/software/save-web-page-as-pdf/21153/">see how-to</a>) without any extensions. Mac OS has PDF printing capabilities built-in while Windows users can install a virtual PDF printer like <a href="http://www.labnol.org/software/free-pdf-writer-reader/17915/" target="_blank">Nitro Reader</a> to create PDF files from any Windows application using the regular Print command – just choose Nitro from the list of available printers.<br /><a href="http://www.saveaswwf.com/en/home.html">SaveAsWWF</a> from WWF is another PDF printer that creates <a href="http://www.labnol.org/software/printless-pdf-for-windows/18398/">printless PDFs</a>. The other popular alternative is <a href="http://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php">BullZip</a> for Windows.<br /><h4><em>2.</em> I don’t want to install any software. Are there any web apps for converting a bunch of documents to PDFs?</h4>Sure. You can upload your documents to Google Drive and then export them as PDF files using these <a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/direct-links-for-google-drive/28356/">special links</a>. Alternatively, you can email the documents to <em>attachconvert@pdfconvert.me</em> and perform the <a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/convert-email-pdf/28330/">conversion by email</a>. The latter options comes handy when you need to convert documents to PDFs on a mobile phone without any apps.<br /><h4><em>3.</em> How do I convert a PDF file to another format like Word or HTML?</h4>Upload the PDF document to <a href="http://www.zamzar.com/" target="_blank">zamzar.com</a> and you’ll be able to the convert the file to other formats like doc, html, text, and more. Or you can use your Gmail account to <a href="http://labnol.blogspot.com/2005/12/convert-doc-xls-ppt-rtf-pdf-to-html.html">convert PDF to HTML</a>.<br /><h4><em>4.</em> Someone sent me a PDF document in Chinese. How do I translate the PDF into English?</h4>You can easily <a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/tools/translate-pdf-word-documents-online-google-translate/3553/">translate PDF</a> files from one language to another using Google Translate. Go to <a href="https://translate.google.com/?tr=f&hl=en">translate.google.com</a>, upload the PDF file, choose the destination language and hit the Translate button. The document text is translated though the formatting won’t be preserved.<br /><h4><em>5.</em> How do I edit a PDF document?</h4>PDF files are essentially read-only documents but there are workarounds to help you <a href="http://www.labnol.org/software/edit-pdf-files/10870/">edit PDF files</a>.<br /><h4><em>6.</em> What is the easiest way to extract text from a scanned PDF document and use it in a Word document?</h4>You can easily extract text from regular PDFs using the text selection tool in Adobe Reader but for scanned PDFs, <a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/perform-ocr-with-google-docs/10059/" target="_blank">Google Docs OCR</a> is a good choice. Upload the scanned PDF document to Google Docs, select the option that says “Convert text from PDF and image files to Google documents” and then choose File – Download as Word to save the extracted text.<br />Alternatively, you can download <a href="http://www.paperfile.net/download.html">FreeOCR</a>, a Windows-only app for extracting text from PDFs.<br /><h4><em>7.</em> How do I merge two or more PDF files into one? Can I also change the page order in the PDF?</h4>You should use <a href="http://www.download.com/PDFill-PDF-Tools-Free/3000-2075_4-10435051.html">PDF Fill</a>, a versatile PDF editing tool that lets you combine multiple PDF files into one. PDF Fill can also be used for rearranging pages of a PDF file or for rotating pages – a handy option for fixing the orientation of scanned PDFs. And if you prefer online apps, a good option is <a href="https://pdfmerge.w69b.com/">PDF Mergy</a>.<br /><h4><em>8.</em> I have a restricted PDF document that neither allows printing nor can I select text from the PDF. Can these restrictions be removed?</h4>You can use online services like <a href="http://www.pdfunlock.com/">PDFUnlock.com</a> or <a href="http://www.freemypdf.com/">freemyPDF.com</a> to remove all common restrictions around a PDF file – such as print, copying, etc. – without requiring any passwords.<br /><h4><em>9.</em> Some PDF files on our intranet are password-protected and the employee who created those PDFs is no longer with the company. How can we open these PDFs?</h4>There are several workarounds to help you <a href="http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/01/how-to-open-password-protected-pdf.html">open password protected PDFs</a>. The PDF Unlocker app from <a href="http://appnimi.com/apps/mac-os/viewdownload/2-windows/2-appnimi-pdf-unlocker">AppNimi.com</a> tries to guess passwords for your PDF using the Brute Force algorithm.<br />Alternatively, you can completely <a href="http://www.labnol.org/software/remove-pdf-password/20017/" target="_blank">remove passwords</a> from PDF files that are frequently viewed and instead place these files inside a <a href="http://www.labnol.org/software/password-protect-folders-files/14323/">password-protected folder</a> of your computer.<br /><h4><em>10.</em> How can I apply annotations or add text notes to my PDF documents?</h4>You can use the free Adobe Reader app, available for both Mac and Windows, to annotate and comment inside PDF files. Go to the View menu and choose Annotations under the Comments menu. The toolbox has tools for highlighting text, you can add text blocks, create freehand drawings or even add sticky notes to the document.<br />Alternatively, use <a href="http://www.pdfescape.com/open/">PDF Escape</a> to add annotations, call-outs and text to your PDFs online in the browser without requiring any software.<br /><h4><em>11.</em> How can I fill PDF forms online without Adobe Reader?</h4>Go to <a href="http://www.pdffiller.com/">PDF Filler</a>, upload the PDF form and start typing. You can even pull PDF forms from your Dropbox or Google Drive.<br />PDF Filler will convert your PDF form into images and the user can type right on top of these images. When you have filled the form and are ready to print, the images and user text are combined into a single image. The other good option is <a href="https://www.fillanypdf.com/">FillanyPDF.com</a> that is free as well.<br /><h4><em>12.</em> How can I add watermarks or even my signature to a PDF document?</h4>First draw your signature in Paint (or other photo editing tool) and save it as an image. Now open Adobe Reader and choose Tools – > Place Signature. Copy-paste that signature image anywhere on the PDF page. You can use the same technique to insert watermarks inside the PDF.<br />If you are on a Mac, open the PDF file inside the Preview app and choose Tools – Annotate – Signature – Create Signature from Facetime Camera. Sign your name in blank ink on a piece of white paper, hold the paper up to your webcam to scan the signature and you can then place it anywhere in the PDF.<br /><h4><em>13.</em> I have a PDF ebook that contains 200+ pages. Is there a way to extract selected pages from the PDF and save it as another smaller PDF?</h4>You can use the free <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfsam/">PDF SAM</a> (split and merge) utility to extract one or more pages from a PDF document and save them as separate PDFs. The tool, available for both Mac and Windows, can also be used to merge multiple PDFs into one file.<br /><h4><em>14.</em> How can I protect my PDF documents with a password?</h4>Upload the PDF file to <a href="http://www.pdfprotect.net/">pdfprotect.net</a>, set a security password and export it as PDF again. The service can be used to password-protect files up to 10 MB in size.<br /><h4><em>15.</em> How do I embed PDF files on my blog?</h4>You have several options. Upload the PDF file to Google Docs and then <a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/how-to-embed-in-html-webpages/6365/">embed</a> it in your web pages using the <a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/read-powerpoint-and-pdf-online/9992/">Google Docs Viewer</a>. Alternatively, upload the PDF to document hosting sites like Issuu, Scribd or SlideShare and use their Flash based viewer for embedding PDF into your web pages.<br /><br />Source: www.labnol.org<br /><br />

Adobe PDF Guide – Everything You Wanted to do with PDFs

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How to Get Refunds from the iTunes App Store

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://appletoolbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/itunes-problem.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://appletoolbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/itunes-problem.png" /></a></div><br />The iTunes Apps Store policy states that all sales are final but did you know that if you have a genuine and valid reason, Apple will gladly issue a refund. If you are wondering why would anyone want refunds for apps and games purchased from the iTunes store, consider the following situations:<br /> You ordered an HD movie from the iTunes store but after making the purchase, you realize that it would take several hours to download that massive file to your computer. You can stop the download but your credit card will still be charged.<br /><ul><li>You have an iPhone but you accidentally bought an iPad version of some app which is obviously of no use to you. You can ask Apple for a refund.</li><li>You wanted to buy a game but there were at least a dozen similar titles on the iTunes store (remember Flappy Birds?). The app you finally bought is not the one you were originally looking for and you therefore want to return it to Apple.</li><li>You purchased a song from the iTunes store but there’s some problem with the audio format and it won’t play on your iPod or iPhone. You would like a refund in this case as well.</li><li>You have two or more iTunes accounts and you purchased an iPhone App using the wrong iTunes account. You can’t transfer apps across accounts so a refund followed by re-purchase makes more sense.</li><li>The 1-Click ordering system, that Apple licensed from Amazon, makes it easy for anyone to buy apps, songs, movies and games from the iTunes store with a single click but this can sometimes lead to accidental purchases especially when kids have access to your devices. They may make in-app purchases without your knowledge.</li></ul>These are just some of the legitimate reasons why   people may want to return their iTunes store purchases and request refunds from Apple.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.labnol.org/di/itunes_receipt.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="318" src="http://img.labnol.org/di/itunes_receipt.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /> Source: www.labnol.org

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How to Create Mail Merge with Gmail and Google Docs

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tuesdaytactics.com/htmlemail/images/tt191-3gmail.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.tuesdaytactics.com/htmlemail/images/tt191-3gmail.jpg" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"></span><br />Mail merge program helps you send personalized email messages to multiple contacts in one go. The individual messages have the same content but some parts of the message can be customized. For instance, you can greet each recipient by their first name, you can include their postal address in the message body while the other parts stays the same.<br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">Mail Merge is for all. If you are organizing a party at your home, you can send personalized email invitations to all your friends with the help of mail merge. A business owner can use mail merge to inform customers about upcoming deals and offers. Teachers can send individual assignments and reports to students through mail merge.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gk4KR7tH54Y?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><h3 id="free" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 1.75em; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.25; margin: 20px 0px 0.809em; padding: 0px;">How to do Mail Merge with Gmail</h3><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.05em; line-height: 1.618em; margin-bottom: 1.618em; padding: 0px;">With Mail Merge for Gmail, you can send rich-text (HTML) emails to multiple people and the messages can also include file attachments. Let’s get started:</div><ol style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin: 1em 0px 1.4em 24px; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aofk8L6brI_edHBkZjlFYWktbThrTlp5c20zaEtQaFE&newcopy=true" rel="nofollow" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Google Docs for Mail Merge">Click here</a> to create a copy of the Mail Merge sheet in your Google Drive. It internally uses <a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/google-scripts/28281/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Google Apps Script</a>.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Under the new “Mail Merge” menu in the sheet, click on “Reset” to clear the canvas and also authorize the sheet to access your Gmail and Google Contacts.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Open <a href="http://www.google.com/contacts" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Google Contacts</a> and create a new Group with all the contacts who you would like to send a personalized email. Alternatively, you can enter the names and email addresses of recipients manually in the Google Sheet.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Under the Mail Merge menu, choose Import Google Contacts and select the Google Contacts group that you created in Step 3. Google Docs will now automatically import all the relevant Gmail contacts into the spreadsheet.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Fill-in the various fields of the email template. (<a href="http://img.labnol.org/videos/simple-mail-merge.mp4" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">video</a>)</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">You can compose an email template in rich text using the <a href="http://ctrlq.org/html-mail/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">HTML Mail</a> tool and then copy-paste the generated HTML code into the message body field of the Google Sheet.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">If you would like to add an attachment to your email messages – say a PDF file or a Word document – just upload that file to Google Docs and copy-paste the ID of the file into the Attachment ID field. You can find the ID of a Google Docs file in its URL.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Go to the Mail Merge menu again and click “Start Mail Merge” – the status column will change to “OK” for all email messages that were successfully delivered.</li></ol><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.05em; line-height: 1.618em; margin-bottom: 1.618em; padding: 0px;">That’s it! You’ve just completed your first mail merge through Gmail and Google Docs. Please note that Gmail has a <a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/email/gmail-daily-limit-sending-bulk-email/2191/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">daily sending limit</a> and you can send a maximum of 100 messages in a day.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.05em; line-height: 1.618em; margin-bottom: 1.618em; padding: 0px;">Source: www.labnol.org</div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span>

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The Best Services for Sending Large Files over the Internet

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.maclife.com/files/u12635/large_WaysToShareOnline.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.maclife.com/files/u12635/large_WaysToShareOnline.jpg" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">If you have to share a large file with someone over the Internet, there are generally two options – you can either put the file </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">in an email message as an attachment or, if the file is too big to fit inside email, you can upload it to an file </span><span class="jm2ad" id="jm2ad_2" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; border-style: none none solid !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; height: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px; list-style: none; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important;">hosting service</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"> and then share the </span><span class="jm2ad" id="jm2ad_1" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; border-style: none none solid !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; height: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px; list-style: none; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important;">download</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"> links with the recipient.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.labnol.org/di/share-large-files-table.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="280" src="http://img.labnol.org/di/share-large-files-table.png" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">Web email services like Gmail and Outlook allow you to send files up to 25 MB in size. For sending even bigger files, you can use a file-splitting utility like HJ-Split that will break the large file into smaller chunks of 25 MB each and you can send these in separate email messages. The recipient can download and join these parts to restore the original file.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">You can use online storage services like Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive for sending really big files. Microsoft OneDrive lets you upload single files up to 2 GB in size while the individual size limit is 1 TB (yes 1000 GB) in the case of Google Drive. For even bigger files, you can use Dropbox – here the files have no size limit if you upload them to Dropbox through the desktop application.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">There’s also </span><a href="https://www.wetransfer.com/" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">WeTransfer</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"> — a freemium web app that lets you send files up to 2 GB in size from the browser. You don’t have to register for the service and all it asks for is the recipient’s email address. The uploaded file stays on the server for 7 days.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.05em; line-height: 1.618em; margin-bottom: 1.618em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 1.05em; line-height: 1.618em;">All the options discussed above have one thing in common – you have to upload your files to the Internet before someone can download them.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.05em; line-height: 1.618em; margin-bottom: 1.618em; padding: 0px;">If you would like to send a file directly to someone without having to upload it anywhere, <a href="http://www.justbeamit.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">JustBeamIt</a> is a good option. This is peer-to-peer app meaning the <span class="jm2ad" id="jm2ad_6" style="border-bottom-width: 1px !important; border-style: none none solid !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; float: none; height: 17px; list-style: none; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important;">file transfers</span> happen between your computer and the recipient’s computer directly. You can drag and drop a file on to the JustBeamIt website and it will instantly create a shareable link. When someone clicks this link, the file will begin to download on their machine directly from your computer.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.05em; line-height: 1.618em; margin-bottom: 1.618em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://infinit.io/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Infinit</a> is another impressive desktop application that also uses peer to peer file transfer and it allows you to send files of virtually any size to anyone. All you have to do is drag the file on to the Infinit app, choose any recipient from your contacts and the transfer will begin once they accept the incoming file request.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.05em; line-height: 1.618em; margin-bottom: 1.618em; padding: 0px;">Infinit is available for both Mac and Windows and is probably the easiest way to send files big and small. It supports resumable downloads meaning if the Internet connection breaks during the file transfer, the app will pick up from where it left off after the connection is re-established. If you are sending files to another computers on the same network, Infinit uses your local area network and thus the transfers happen extremely fast.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.05em; line-height: 1.618em; margin-bottom: 1.618em; padding: 0px;">That said, the sender and the recipient would need to install the Infinit app to use peer-to-peer transfer. Also, it is currently not possible to send files from the desktop to mobile devices.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.05em; line-height: 1.618em; margin-bottom: 1.618em; padding: 0px;">The popular Skype app can also be used for sending documents, photos, videos and other large files of any format to your Skype contacts. Just initiate a chat session or a audio / video call with a contact and choose the Send File option to initiate a transfer. The service imposes no limit to the size or number of the files you can send or receive using Skype and since it is peer-to-peer, no centralized server is needed for the file transfer.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.05em; line-height: 1.618em; margin-bottom: 1.618em; padding: 0px;">Source: www.labnol.org</div>

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25 Ways to Make Money on the Internet

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWibqut5hKGkFsEX_Q-4zZMMcR-fBN-w3w6T3JctiunT7-QEdk00fj_qHg1Uky1waYiuy8kwCjGttkK2vJGHkViQezrZ18PjYVaJt_u7XxEE9UmzYU9YPxCV6fDMhyphenhyphenQHdez_9DTp0LKeA/s1600/internet4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWibqut5hKGkFsEX_Q-4zZMMcR-fBN-w3w6T3JctiunT7-QEdk00fj_qHg1Uky1waYiuy8kwCjGttkK2vJGHkViQezrZ18PjYVaJt_u7XxEE9UmzYU9YPxCV6fDMhyphenhyphenQHdez_9DTp0LKeA/s1600/internet4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><br /><a name='more'></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">You may have a well-paying job but it wouldn’t hurt if you can earn a few extra dollars every month utilizing the knowledge and skills that you already have. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">There are no shortcuts but if you ready to put in the effort and time, here are some “legitimate” ways to help you make money on the Internet.</span><br /><ol style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin: 1em 0px 1.4em 24px; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Start a website or a blog and earn revenue through <a href="http://digitalinspiration.com/ad-networks" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">advertising networks</a> like Google AdSense and BuySellAds. You can even sell your own ads directly through <a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/google-dfp-tutorial/14099/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Google DFP</a>.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Launch a curated email newsletter using <a href="http://eepurl.com/NnPRT" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">MailChimp</a> and find sponsors or use a subscription model where people pay a fee to receive your newsletter.  <a href="http://www.hackernewsletter.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">HackerNewletter</a>, <a href="http://nowiknow.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Now I Know</a> and <a href="http://launch.co/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Launch.co</a> are good examples.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Create your own YouTube channel and become a YouTube partner to <a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/music-to-monetize-youtube-videos/28590/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">monetize your videos</a>. You may use <a href="http://www.oneload.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Oneload</a> to distribute the same video to multiple video sites.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Make something creative – like handbags, jewelry, paintings, craft items – and sell them on <a href="https://www.etsy.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Etsy</a>, <a href="http://www.artfire.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">ArtFire</a> or eBay.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Build your own online store with <a href="http://www.shopify.com/?ref=labnol" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Shopify</a> or <a href="http://www.squarespace.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">SquareSpace</a> and sell both physical goods and <a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/sell-digital-products-online/28554/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">digital downloads</a>. Sell everything from furniture to clothes to food.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Create t-shirt designs and put them on <a href="https://www.threadless.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Threadless</a>, <a href="http://www.zazzle.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Zazzle</a> and <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">CafePress</a>.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Write a book and publish it on the Kindle store, Google Play and iBooks. You can also sell your ebook to other retailers through services like <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Smashwoods</a>and <a href="http://www.bookbaby.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">BookBaby</a>.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Become an instructor at <a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=pwLvAigSe20&offerid=323058.7&type=1&subid=0" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Udemy</a> and <a href="http://www.skillshare.com/teach" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">SkillShare</a> and get paid for teaching your favorite subjects – from guitar to literature to yoga to foreign languages – to a worldwide audience.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/learn-coding-online/28537/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Learn how to code</a> and you can then hunt for software development projects at<a href="http://www.guru.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Guru</a>, <a href="http://elance.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">eLance</a> or <a href="https://www.freelancer.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Rent-a-Coder</a> (now Freelancer.com).</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Become a virtual office assistant and offer administrative or technical assistance to clients remotely from your home office. Head over to <a href="https://www.elance.com/r/jobs/cat-admin-support/sct-virtual-assistant-10243" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">eLance</a>, <a href="https://www.taskrabbit.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">TaskRabbit</a> and <a href="https://www.odesk.com/o/profiles/browse/min/5/?q=personal+assistant" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">oDesk</a>for finding work.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Offer one-on-one help to anyone worldwide over live video using <a href="https://helpouts.google.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Google Helpouts</a>. You can do live cooking classes, teach maths or even offer fitness and nutrition tips.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Write <a href="http://ctrlq.org/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">scripts</a>, browser extensions, plugins or mobile apps for iOS and Android and sell the source code of your software on <a href="http://codecanyon.net/?ref=labnol" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">CodeCanyon</a>, <a href="http://www.chupamobile.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Chupa</a> or <a href="http://www.binpress.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">BinPress</a>.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">People are outsourcing petty computer jobs – like data entry work, transcribing text from business cards or performing web research – and you find these jobs at<a href="https://www.mturk.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Mechanical Turk</a>, an Amazon service.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Creative professionals can scan marketplaces like <a href="http://www.crowdspring.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">CrowdSpring</a>, <a href="http://99designs.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">99Designs</a> and<a href="http://www.designcrowd.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">DesignCrowd</a> for projects involving logo design, web design, brochures and other marketing material.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Do you have a good voice? Sign-up as an audio narrator at <a href="https://umano.me/community" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Umano</a> or become a voice over artist at <a href="http://voicebunny.com/voice-over-jobs" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">VoiceBunny</a> and <a href="http://voice123.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Voice123</a>.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Record your own music and sell it on music stores like Amazon MP3, iTunes, Pandora or Spotify through <a href="https://distrokid.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">DistroKid</a>, <a href="http://www.tunecore.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Tunecore</a>, <a href="http://loudr.fm/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">loudr.fm</a> and <a href="http://members.cdbaby.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">CDBaby</a>. You can also sell your audio files directly on marketplaces like <a href="http://audiojungle.net/?ref=labnol" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">AudioJungle</a>, <a href="http://www.pond5.com/?ref=labnol" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Pond5</a> and<a href="https://bandcamp.com/artists" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Bandcamp</a>.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Become an affiliate for <a href="https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/?tag=ctrlqorg-20" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Amazon</a> and various <a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/make-money-online/18293/www.labnol.org/internet/online-stores-international-shipping/28607/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">online stores</a> and earn a commission on sales. You can use programs like <a href="https://www.viglink.com/?vgref=727" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Vigilink</a>, <a href="http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=44&u=986916&m=47&urllink=&afftrack=" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">ShareASale</a>, <a href="http://cj.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">CJ</a> or <a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=pwLvAigSe20&offerid=311675.10000071&subid=0&type=4" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">LinkShare</a> to know about the various vendors that offer affiliate programs.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Educators and teachers can help students with homework or offer on-demand teaching class over the Internet. Apply to become an online tutor at <a href="http://www.tutor.com/apply" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Tutor.com</a>,<a href="https://instaedu.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">InstaEdu</a> and <a href="http://www.tutorvista.com/teaching-jobs" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">TutorVista</a>.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Got an empty room in your apartment? You can list the property on <a href="https://www.airbnb.co.in/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Airbnb,</a> host people and make some money. The other alternative is <a href="https://www.couchsurfing.org/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Couchsurfing</a> but the service forbids from charging guests.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/sell-photos/28203/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Sell photographs</a> that you have taken on <a href="https://creativemarket.com/?u=labnol" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Creative Market</a>, <a href="http://photodune.net/?ref=labnol" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">PhotoDune</a>, <a href="http://www.istockphoto.com/sell-stock-photos.php" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">iStockPhoto</a>or <a href="http://imgembed.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">ImgEmbed</a>. The latter lets you easily license photos you have uploaded on Facebook, Flickr or Instagram for online use.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Sell the stuff you no longer use – like old <a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/buy-books-cheaper-online/10908/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">books</a>, children’s toys, gadgets, DVDs, furniture, etc. – on sites like eBay, Craigslist or, if you are in India, OLX.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Apply to become a website tester at <a href="http://www.usertesting.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">UserTesting</a> and get paid to review and test websites from the usability perspective.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">If friend’s look at you for <a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/tools/provide-tech-support-from-home-using-screen-sharing-software/922/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">tech support</a>, there’s no reason why you can’t offer similar services on the Internet. Get Skype (for calling) and Chrome Remote Desktop (for screen sharing) and you are all set to offer <span style="color: #454444; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">remote tech help from anywhere.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Create an account at <a href="http://www.fiverr.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Fiverr</a> and <a href="http://www.peopleperhour.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">PeoplePerHour</a> and offer a wide range of services from translation to graphic design to writing to SEO.</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">You can make money by flipping websites. <a href="https://flippa.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Flippa</a>, <a href="https://auctions.godaddy.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">GoDaddy Auctions</a> and <a href="https://www.sedo.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Sedo</a> are popular marketplaces for buying and selling registered domains while<a href="http://www.leandomainsearch.com/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">LeanDomainSearch</a> is a good tool for finding available <a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/domain-name-research-tools/17881/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">domain names</a>.</li></ol><br /><ol style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin: 1em 0px 1.4em 24px; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Source: labnol.org</li></ol>

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How to Sell your Music on the Internet

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.real.com/resources/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/streaming-MP41.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="236" src="http://www.real.com/resources/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/streaming-MP41.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"></span><br /><a name='more'></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">It is now easier than ever before to sell your music to a worldwide audience. I’ve been a musician since childhood, and while education, travel and then working </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">for a living got in the way of my dream of becoming a guitar hero, I have never given up hope. Indeed, I’ve spent the last couple of years writing and recording an eclectic mix of songs.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">The next obvious step was to find some way to get them heard, which is where the advent of social media came into its own.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 1.25;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 1.25;">Where to Sell your Music Online</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 1.25;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">While MySpace is something of a musical backwater these days, despite Justin Timberlake’s intervention, it is still a place to post one’s songs and updates for a musically oriented audience. Much stronger and with a better sense of community though is </span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">SoundCloud</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">. I began uploading instrumentals and songs to Soundcloud several years ago, but then opted for a paid account to get more comprehensive statistics as well as pretty much unlimited space for audio files.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">Followers on SoundCloud are commonly fellow musicians and, as with all the other social networks, you get more out of them the more you put in — follow others, listen to their music and leave comments and more people will reciprocate. There is importantly also the option to add “buy” links to other services through which your listeners, audience, fans, even, might pay to download a track or two.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">The first potentially profitable option I came across was </span><a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">ReverbNation</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">. It is very similar to SoundCloud — you can create a profile and start adding your music, you can set a price or make it free to download. Also, you can either take all the profits after the site’s commission, or opt to share with a charity of your choice. In my case, I give a proportion of every sale to the Fender Music Foundation.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">It may just be my experience, but ReverbNation seems a lot quieter in terms of community than SoundCloud and although I get a steady stream of profile views, few people seem to listen there. Moreover, ReverbNation messages users quite frequently with offers of music promotion, which seem to rely on one having paid for a “press pack” up-front.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">The next site that appeared on my radar was </span><a href="https://bandcamp.com/" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">BandCamp</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">, which also lets you upload your songs and artwork and set a price. The big advantage is that your fans have the option to show their true devotion and pay more than the asking price if they really like a track or album. I have had some success with marketing on BandCamp, although, again I don’t think I’m ready to give up the day job just yet.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sell Music on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.25;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">Of course, in the music download world, iTunes, Google Play, Amazon MP3 and Spotify are the primary paid outlets and the most well-known among legitimate downloaders. Getting your songs and music album on to these music sites generally requires you to have proper music management and a record label but there are other ways to get listed as well.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">The likes of music distribution platforms like </span><a href="http://members.cdbaby.com/" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">CDBaby</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"> and </span><a href="http://www.tunecore.com/" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">TuneCore</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"> take an upfront fee and will act as a proxy for a record label to get your music on to iTunes and other online music stores. Your music uploads will appear in stores worldwide. These services, like </span><a href="http://www.audiam.com/" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Audiam</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"> also have a partnership with YouTube and you are paid a share of the ad revenue whenever your </span><a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/music-to-monetize-youtube-videos/28590/" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">music is used on YouTube videos</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><a href="https://distrokid.com/" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">DistroKid</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"> on the other hand charges an almost negligible annual fee, does not take a cut of the profits and nevertheless allows you to upload as many songs as you like each year. It takes a few days for your tracks to propagate to iTunes, Google, Amazon, Spotify, Deezer and Rdio, but it is a very slick and simple process.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">In addition, there is </span><a href="http://loudr.fm/" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">loudr.fm</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"> which is similar to DistroKid for getting your songs on to iTunes, Amazon, et al quickly and seamlessly, but with one important difference — it lets you upload and sell “cover” versions of other people’s songs by taking care of the licensing and royalties for the songwriter. The service charges no upfront fee but takes a relatively large cut of any profits from the download stores.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><br /><h4 style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 1.125em; line-height: 22px; margin: 20px 0px 0.809em; padding: 0px;">Music Distribution Services – Comparison</h4><table style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><thead style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><th style="line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 15px;">Service</th><th style="line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 15px;">Upfront Cost</th><th style="line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 15px;">Sales Commission</th><th style="line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 6px 15px;">Supported Music Stores</th></tr></thead><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 15px;">BandCamp</td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 15px;">None</td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 15px;">15% of the total sales</td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 15px;">None</td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 15px;">ReverbNation</td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 15px;">$19.95 per month</td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 15px;">None</td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 15px;">iTunes, Spotify, Google Music, et al</td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 15px;">CD Baby</td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 15px;">$12.95 per single</td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 15px;">9% of the revenue from music sites</td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 15px;">iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Beats Music, <a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/find-name-of-songs/12316/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Shazam</a>, Facebook, YouTube, et al</td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 15px;">DistroKid</td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 15px;">$19.99 per year</td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 15px;">None</td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 15px;">iTunes, Spotify, Beats, Rdio, Deezer, Google Play, Amazon MP3</td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 15px;">Loudr.fm</td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 15px;">None</td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 15px;">15% of the sales revenue</td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 15px;">iTunes, <a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/access-pandora-music-anywhere/20976/" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Pandora</a>, Spotify and Google Play</td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 15px;">TuneCore</td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 15px;">$9.99 per year per single</td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 15px;">None</td><td style="border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 15px;">iTunes, Amazon MP3, Google Play, Spotify, and more.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">Source: www.labnol.org</span>

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How to Schedule your Gmail Messages with a Google Sheet

<h1 class="post-title entry-title" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 38.4000015258789px; margin: 0px 0px 7px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><a name='more'></a>Microsoft Outlook has a built-in scheduler to help you delay the delivery of email messages. After you are finished writing an email message and hit the Send button, the message isn’t delivered immediately — it stays in your outbox and is sent at the specified time automatically.</span></h1><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">Gmail doesn’t let you schedule a later delivery of email messages but there are browser extensions — like Boomerang and Right Inbox — that let you specify a future send date for your outgoing email messages.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">These are however subscription based services that allow you to send only a limited number of scheduled email messages for free per month. The other concern is privacy – you will have to grant read and write access to your entire Gmail account to a third-party to use scheduling inside Gmail.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">If you are reluctant to provide access to your Gmail account to another service, there’s an alternative – Google Sheets.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">What you can do is compose all your emails that you would like to be delivered later in Gmail and then specify the exact delivery date and time for these messages in the Google sheet. The messages would be delivered automatically at the time chosen by you. Internally, there’s a little </span><a href="http://ctrlq.org/code/19716-schedule-gmail-emails" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Google Script</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"> that takes care of sending the messages at the appropriate date and time.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.labnol.org/di/schedule-gmail-messages.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="273" src="http://img.labnol.org/di/schedule-gmail-messages.png" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><br /><h3 style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.25; margin: 20px 0px 0.809em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Schedule your Gmail – Step by Step</span></h3><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">Go to your Gmail mailbox and compose a few test messages that you would like to be delivered later. Your draft messages can have rich formatting, you can add attachments, signatures and even inline images. Make sure that you have included the recipient’s email address in the <b>TO</b> field of the drafts</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">.</span><br /><ol style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin: 1em 0px 1.4em 24px; padding: 0px;"><li style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aofk8L6brI_edGg1NmNEY29SVjdfNnR0a0ROYi1OZlE&source=labnol.org&newcopy=true" rel="nofollow" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Click here</a> to make a copy of the Gmail Scheduler sheet (v2.0) in your Google Drive.</li><li style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Change the <a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/schedule-gmail-send-later/24867/#timezone" style="color: black; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">default timezone</a> of your Google spreadsheet. The emails will get scheduled in this timezone.</li><li style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Inside the sheet, choose Authorize under the Gmail Scheduler menu and grant the necessary permissions. This script is running in your own Google Drive and none of your data is accessible to anyone else.</li><li style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Choose <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Gmail Scheduler -> Fetch Messages</i> to import all the draft messages from your Gmail account into the Google Sheet.</li><li style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Set the scheduled date and time for individual messages in column D of the sheet. You can double-click a cell and use the date picker or you can manually enter the date and time as <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">m/dd/yyyy h:mm:ss</i> in 24 hour format.</li><li style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px;">Go to <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Gmail Scheduler -> Schedule Messages</i> and run the scheduler. You can close the spreadsheet and it will send messages at the specified time automatically.</li></ol><b style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 1.125em; line-height: 22px;">How to Change the Spreadsheet Timezone</b><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">The scheduled date and time that you specify in the cells use the default timezone of the spreadsheet. If you wish to send mails in a different timezone, open the spreadsheet and pick a different timezone under </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">File -> Spreadsheet Setting </i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">menu.   </span></span><br /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 27.1823978424072px;">Source: www.labnol.org</span>

How to Schedule your Gmail Messages with a Google Sheet

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