May 7, 2013
Apple doesn’t offer an all-in-one office suite, so users who want to handle these tasks on their tablet must turn to a third-party solution. One of the most popular is QuickOffice Pro HD, a $19.99 iOS productivity suite that is actually owned by Google. The app promises the creation and editing of Word, Excel and Powerpoint files and lets users save documents to .PDF. All of which sounds great – but does it actually work?
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February 25, 2013
If you have amassed several hundred or thousands of PDF documents like I have, you probably have experienced the challenge of managing and accessing them in various folders on your computer. Since I have gone practically paperless in my day-to-day workflow, an application like PDF Stacks ($39.00) is one I should have started using a long time ago. We're giving away 25 copies of PDF Stacks for both PC and Mac. Find out how you can win one after the review.
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February 7, 2013
When the Internet was small and young, file formats were pretty much limited to image types and media file types that the browsers of the time could handle. At the very beginning, text was almost exclusively meant to be presented on the Internet in HTML format, or provided as a file download via FTP protocol. Pictures were JPG or GIF across the board, and sound files were these strangely embedded WAV files and those pathetic electronic MIDI files.
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August 20, 2012
iCloud has been most useful for updating email, contact, and calendar data across Mac and iOS devices. But now it includes additional features for document files, for both Apple native and third-party applications. In this article I explain many of the pros and cons of saving text documents to iCloud.
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June 25, 2012
Most of us don’t have the tools to easily create PDFs – particularly with advanced options -- and don’t want to learn a complex application like Adobe Acrobat to do so. Softland's novaPDF is an easy-to-use tool to create PDFs from any application that supports printing. This week we’re giving away 25 copies of novaPDF Professional Desktop 7 worth a total of $1250! Read on for your chance to enter our giveaway and win your own copy!
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March 29, 2012
When you create PDFs for business purposes there are a number of security concerns you may have, ranging from who can view it to how the content can be re-used. It's therefore vital to understand your PDF security settings well and to know what protection features are generally available. Here are some of the top PDF security tips.
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March 19, 2012
Believe it or not, some people still print documents to physical pieces of paper. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software takes those printed documents and converts them right back into machine-readable text. We've found some of the best free OCR tools and compared them for you here. No OCR program is perfect, so you'll have to double check the results and fix a few problems.
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February 20, 2012
LibreOffice, an off-shoot of OpenOffice founded by former contributors to the OpenOffice project in 2010, has just been updated to 3.5. Several new features are part of the update including a new grammar checking tool which is included in Writer. The goal of the new utility is to check sentences for grammatical errors more accurately. [...]
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February 9, 2012
During your work week, there are probably lots of times that you find yourself copying and pasting information from Excel into Word, or the other way around. This is how people often produce written reports based on data that’s accumulated and updated in an Excel spreadsheet. In this article, I’m going to dive a little more into the background VBA scripting that allows you to actually program connections between data in Excel and Word.
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February 6, 2012
Windows 7’s Homegroup feature makes sharing printers on your local network easy, but what if you want to share a printer over the Internet? This has traditionally been very complicated, involving print drivers, firewall rules and IP addresses. Google Cloud Print, built into Google Chrome, simplifies online printer sharing.
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February 6, 2012
In the next two week, we're giving away 50 free copies of Nitro Pro 7 worth a whopping $6000 in total!
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February 3, 2012
Make simple changes to any PDF file in Linux. Move pages around, edit the bookmarks, add pages from another PDF or remove pages altogether. It's a snap with PDF Mod, a simple Linux program that does one thing and does it well. If there's something PDF files aren't really supposed to be, it's editable. The format, originally created as a way to transfer data from a computer to a printer, is essentially a digital piece of paper.
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January 26, 2012
Edit any text file in your Dropbox from your browser. It's easy to with TextDropApp, a web-based text editor that uses Dropbox for storage. Whether you want to edit text documents from Chrome OS or just want a simple way to do some writing while on the go, TextDropApp is easy to use and quick. TextDropApp isn't just useful for programmers. It's also perfect for the writer on the move.
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January 16, 2012
We had taken an earlier look at 6 Ways To Convert A PDF To A JPG Image. But over here, I am looking for something specific – extracting images only from PDF files. The solutions offered in the previous article are full-fledged converters. Here, the focus is more pinpointed. Let’s check out a few ways to extract images from PDF files.
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January 9, 2012
The one thing that strikes a discordant note when I am using the free Adobe Reader X is the absence of a bookmarking feature. Just how the heck am I supposed to start from where I left off reading a 1000 page ebook? Why Adobe would nix out such a basic feature is beyond me, but that forced me to look for solutions as a workaround.
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