PDF documents and eBooks are widely available on the web. Nowadays you can find great business-related, educational, entertaining or informative resources online that you can download for free in PDF format. Not only that, you can often find multiple interesting PDFs on a single web-page. All you need to do is to download each of them. If there are only two or three PDFs of interest available on the page, it is not a big deal. But if you come across a page with a dozen or more documents that you simply must have, downloading each of them individually may become a time intensive and mundane chore.

Let’s take for example one Google search query:

[business tips filetype:pdf ]

This search will return many great PDFs for free download. If you are just starting a business or writing a paper or article, or preparing a lesson for your students, you may want to check out as many resources as possible. If you start downloading each resource separately, you may end up doing this for hours, right?
But don’t worry. If you are a Google Chrome user, there is great news for you. There is a free Chrome extension for downloading all files linked on the page called Download Master.

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Presentations play an important role in different spheres nowadays. Business professionals, freelancers, small businesses and corporations, teachers, students, public speakers, project managers, and many others use presentations on a regular basis. Microsoft PowerPoint is probably the best known and most popular software program for creating and editing slideshows. It is packed with tons of powerful features which allow for creating and publishing striking and effective presentations. However, most professional presenters are always on the lookout for additional tools that will help them differentiate their presentations and make best possible impression. If you are one of them, here are three easy to use and free tools that will help you spruce-up your .ppt and .pptx files.

1. Convert presentations into 3D slideshows

SlideShare 3D is a fully free web-based tool that enables users to easily turn any Slideshare presentation into a 3D slideshow. These 3D slideshows work on all modern browsers, mobile phones and tablets, including touchscreen devices. The tool is very easy to use.

In the case that you aren’t already using SlideShare for hosting and sharing your presentations, the first thing you need to do is to open a free SlideShare account and upload your PowerPoint or PDF presentation.

Once you do that, you can start transforming your static slides into dynamic 3D slideshows.

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It is practically unimaginable to conduct any kind of research without the Internet these days. No matter if you are a student, educator, professional researcher, or simply a curious person, when you want to explore a certain subject chances are you will start your research on the World Wide Web. As far as we know, the Web is the best source of information on a wide range of topics.  Actually, you will most likely come across tons of great resources and materials that you can use for your project, paper, presentation, report or anything else.

However great and awesome it is, you will need a way to mark up and annotate all these amazing web pages in order to properly manage and moderate your research. Thankfully, there are numerous web applications that will enable you to add notes to web pages and much, much more. Today we share with you seven great apps for annotating the web and managing information online.

1. WebNotes

WebNotes lets you highlight and add notes to web pages directly from your web browser for free. Users can easily and quickly highlight text, create sticky notes and add comments to web pages. All notes can be searched, tagged for easy reference and organized into folders. Another handy free feature is that all your notes can be shared with others via email, Twitter or hyperlink. This is great news for teams of students and professionals working together on a project.

WebNotes Pro, which is a paid plan, allows users to view and mark up PDF documents as well. Not only that, but you can also automatically create slick reports from collections of notes. This feature diminishes the need to copy and paste the text from web pages to Microsoft Word or any other text processing program.

2. Diigo

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