I used to have all of the time in the world to make, edit, and upload videos to my YouTube channel. But when I would publish… I would just sit there… waiting… for "something"… Out of 10 views, maybe 8 views came from friends. I was totally lost.

And then I had an epiphany. They were the worst. They were random screenshots of the video. There was no way people would want to click on that. Your thumbnail on YouTube is like the cover of a book. If it looks boring then no one will bother reading it no matter how good the story is.

Reasons Your Thumbnails Might Not Be Working

I see many beginners go wrong. They have loads of copy on the image. No one wants to read ten words on a phone screen. Keep it snappy. And if the colors are rubbish and dull, people will just keep scrolling. You only get a second to grab their attention.

My Simple 3 Rules

• Say as little as possible. Use no more than three or four words. More is not better!
• Pop it out: Colors. If the background is dark use white to write.
• Show a face. People like faces. If you can insert your face in the picture and you can have an expression of happiness or anger. It's magic.

I recall one client sent me a 50page PDF report. He wanted me to extract some text and place it into a Word doc. I tried to highlight the text and copy it. The formatting was all over the place. It was a disaster.

Just like everyone else I went to google and searched for "PDF to text converter" and clicked the first link. I uploaded my document, received my text and continued on my day. Then a friend of mine who works in cybersecurity said something to me that horrified me.

The Dirty Secret of "Websites

He explained to me that quite a lot of those free tool websites actually hold your files on their servers. Just think of it. You might be uploading your bank statements, the ID card or private contracts.. They are stored somewhere on a random server. They even sell you data to marketing companies. Madness.

Why I Built This Tool

That's exactly why I created the Tool Kit Pro PDF to Text tool. I was looking for that. Here's how it works. It reads the PDF right there in your browser. It doesn't upload anything to my server. Your files stay on your computer, right where they belong.

I freelance a lot. For a while I was just pasting invoices and proposals into the body of the email, I thought "Why go to the trouble of opening Word?" frankly it looked very unprofessional. Your clients want to see a document.

I loathe having to open a Word file. The software loads painfully slowly and formats sometimes lose everything for some reason. All I wanted was a simple tool to convert some text into a PDF.

The Quick Fix

I made this Text to PDF converter. It is so simple it feels practically dumb. Just paste the text into the box. Upload a.txt file, hit a single button and instantly a PDF downloads. Nothing to set margins on, no fonts to choose.

I recently discovered this recipe and decided to give it a go. It came from a blog and I noticed it said "Bake at 350°F" which as a Celsius country I had no idea how hot that was!

I was trying to estimate. I turned on the oven at what I thought was the right temperature. Very quickly the cake turned into a piece of burnt charcoal. It was a total failure.

Just Use the Tool

I created this Temperature Converter just for this. Now I never have to guess. I just enter the Celsius value. It spits out the Fahrenheit value instantaneously. It is quick it is correct.

When I designed my website I was very happy with it. I had big images with high definition on the homepage because I thought it look so nice. When I tested the speed of my website it loaded in around eight seconds. That is to slow.

The Easiest Fix Ever

You don't need to delete your images. All you need is to compress your images. I've created the Image Compressor tool to do it. It compresses your JPGs and PNGs by eighty percent and trust me you really won't see any difference.