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Losing Money Due To High Canadian dollar

It’s so sad!

I’m Canadian and in case you aren’t aware the Canadian dollar is actually worth more than the American dollar right now. It’s the first time in decades that our dollar has been higher than the US dollar.

I just looked it up and our dollar is worth 1.01775 in the US. OK I didn’t say it was a lot higher.

Still … since most of the money that I earn via the internet is paid to me in American dollars through my Paypal account I’m actually losing money. Paypal takes a small fee, I believe it’s 3% when they exchange money from US currency to another currency and of course, when I transfer my money to a Canadian bank account I end up losing money.

I think I’m going to look into getting an American bank account. I think I can. Then I’ll use that as my main Paypal bank account and transfer my money to my Canadian bank from the US bank account. I must look into this.

I’m sure there must be several Canadians out there in the same position that I am. Have you thought of any ways to cut the lose a bit?

Split large PDF files with A-PDF Size Splitter

by Tricia

Have you ever had a PDF file – perhaps one that you’ve created on your own or one that you need to send by email to someone else that’s just huge? Some people have very small or almost full mailboxes. Send a file that’s too large and they won’t get it at all. Your email will bounce back to you.

Lucky for you there’s a simple desktop utility called A-PDF Size Splitter which will let you split any Acrobat PDF file or group of files into smaller PDF files.

The great thing about this program is that you can control the size of each of your split files as well as how they are named.

This is a stand alone program which means that you do not even have to have a copy of Adobe Acrobat or Adobe reader for A-PDF size Splitter to work. You can use it for batch operations if you have multiple files or splits to create.

A-PDF Size Splitter supports both user and owner password protected PDF files and allows the keeping of the original file encryption.

Documents created using A-PDF Size Splitter are compatible with Adobe Acrobat Reader Version 5 so you can be assured that whomever you are sending the smaller size PDF files too should be able to read the documents.

If you think that this is a program that you could use you can download the program and use it for a 15 day trial. After that if you’d like to continue using the program you’ll need to buy a copy for the low price of only $27 USD.

Afordable PDF Tools carries a whole line of software that can be used with PDF files. Take a look at the various programs on the purchase page.

Adsense tips – Adsense section targeting

by Tricia

Are you dissatisfied with how your Adsense ads are performing on your site?

Well one way to safely view the ads on your site the way people from other areas and countries might be seeing them is to use the Adsense Preview Tool. On the Adsense site you’ll be able to find the tool for Internet Explorer. You can also download this aAdsense preview tool for Firefox if that’s your preferred browser.

If you decide that you don’t like the ads that are being served to your pages you could go into your Google adsense account and block certain advertisers if you’d like, but there might be a better way to get ads that truly fit your sites content.

Try using Adsense Section Targeting.

When you use Adsense Section Targeting you can tell adsense to only draw ads from the contents in your posts. Plus you can use the adsense targeting code to block out your sidebars and or your sites header.

I’ve blocked the sidebars on all of my sites because there are so many things that say blog in the sidebars that for a while it seemed that all the ads had something to do with blog or blogging no matter which site I had them on or what was being discussed in the posts.

If you want to try it out for yourself go to the Adsense help pages and visit the Adsense section targeting information.

If that link doesn’t work for you try:

Look in the adsense help section when you’re signed in – help -> working with my ads -> improving performance -> Using features wisely -> Emphasize important content with section targeting -> click the link in the description in that page that says “The Full Instructions” to learn how to add some code to your template to target certain sections for ads or how to block other sections of your site or page.

If Adsense section targeting doesn’t give you enough control over your ads try using Adsense referrals as well. You can have ads that display Google products and or products from 100’s of other companies and services. You can even pick each product.

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