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Today, we published our first Google Gadget. LOOP to PDF for iGoogle combines the flexibility of user-defined homepages on iGoogle with our free LOOP service making it fast and easy to convert and combine multiple files to PDF. LOOP to PDF for iGoogle is available today by adding it to your homepage.

We want to provide Google users with a more convenient way to convert files to PDF within their personalized iGoogle Homepage. We are also excited to introduce a quick and easy way to document Internet browsing and research. By allowing the user to add multiple URLs and then convert those pages to one combined PDF, we will help simplify the Internet research and browsing experience.

We expect to have our new Gadget formally listed under Google Gadgets in early December. You can start using LOOP on iGoogle today by clicking here to add it to your iGoogle homepage.

We wanted to share a recent email summary from one of our LOOP users — we asked him to explain how he has been using our Add URL function on LOOP to PDF for Firefox:

“I am a graduate student, and I spend a lot of time doing research on the Internet. I found your LOOP service on Firefox which has allowed me to document web research more efficiently. I can now capture web pages and convert them to PDF files by clicking the add URL button. Even better, it allows me to quickly package them into a single PDF, bookmark each website and then name the new combined PDF file. When LOOP converts the web page to PDF, it automatically places the web address at the bottom of the page so I have record of where I found the information. I also discovered that it allows me to create PDF files from a variety of file types and package them into one PDF file, including my web pages. Not only did LOOP save me a TON of time it also helped me better organize my web research. Overall, this tool is WAY COOL! Thanks Drawloop!”

Today, we announced the Alpha 50 Program to our thousands of LOOP users. We are looking for alpha users to test and build Dynamic Document Packages (DDPs) on our new service called LOOP Exchange. LOOP Exchange is a simple yet revolutionary way for you to web-enable documents for file sharing (learn more). We are opening the Alpha 50 Program to our first 50 users requesting to be part of our alpha user group. If you are part of the first 50, you will be one of the first people to experience LOOP Exchange.

We are excited to have 50 of our users be the very first people other than internal developers at Drawloop to run, build and deploy web-enabled document packages on LOOP Exchange. We want to make sure that the LOOP Exchange experience is high-quality, easy-to-use and a powerful tool to web-enable your Microsoft Office documents. We thank you in advance for your participation.

To joint the Alpha LOOP Program, send an email to alpha@drawloop.com.

We look forward to seeing you soon on LOOP Exchange!

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