Leveraging Your Tools
SIDEBAR: URLs -- A Handful Of Tools And Services

By Daniel P. Dern -- May 10th, 1999

		In This Article
			• Leveraging Your Tools  • Turn The Tool Into    A Product?  • Making The Source    Available (Open    Source)  • A Few Bucks Here    And There: The    Shareware Approach  • Free Use = Free    Testers, Free Test Data  • Some Scratch No Itch    Nor Fill Any Niche    SIDEBAR  • URLs -- A Handful Of    Tools And Services

 • Convert a PDF file to text format, provided by Adobe -- Send e-mail to pdf2txt@adobe.com with the (publicly accessible) location in the body, e.g. http://www.website.
com/filename.pdf

 • Several hundred free, JavaScript utilities, by Steve Kangas, implemented as bookmarks, will do things such as stop a page's background music and remove images. http://www.bookmarklets.com/

 • Matt's Script Archive: Including guestbook -- visitors sign in and get added to Web page. Free for All Link Page -- Visitors add links to any website onto list. WWWBoard -- Web discussion board and message forum. Simple Search -- Perform keyword searches of website. Counter -- Graphical count of visitors to website. TextCounter -- Text-based count of visitors to Web page. FormMail -- get the contents of any form mailed to you.

 • Philip Greenspun's services for Web publishers.