December 13, 2010
Converting PDFs to editable documents is no easy feat. You’ll be hard pressed to find an application that does it, and does it well. More often than not, if there are images or formatting in a PDF, the formatting goes out of the window once you convert it to an editable file and you’re left [...]
December 4, 2010
Google Docs has long been my preferred collaboration and note taking tool. I did try some alternatives but I always came back to Google Docs. There are plenty of reasons to love Google Docs: the tool is quick and reliable. It has a set of features that allows you to play with it for multiple [...]
November 23, 2010
Microsoft Office is kind of a big deal. Yes, there are some pretty nice free office suites available these days. But if you’re creating documents for use in the professional world it is difficult to get by without them. Businesses almost universally use Office, and it’s hard to tell how your stuff will look without [...]
November 17, 2010
“Play On Linux” may sound like a toy, but if you want Microsoft Office working on your Linux machine it’s a seriously useful program to have around. User generated scripts make light work of the usually complicated process of installing Office in Linux: there’s no manually installing DLLs, no figuring out which version of Wine [...]
November 5, 2010
Desktop publishing and graphic design applications have been around for years now. Programs like InDesign, QuarkPress, Apple’s Pages, Microsoft Word, and The Print Shop have made it easier for many computer users to create professional looking documents and with a modest amount of graphic and computing skills. Recently, Adobe, the makers of Photoshop and various [...]
August 13, 2010
Take a look at the Character Map in Windows and tell me your best “˜font friends’ on it. Usually, it doesn’t go beyond the Arial font family, the Times New Roman font family, and a few neighbors like Comic Sans coming into your circle. But even then, are you pally with all the members of [...]
August 3, 2010
Yes, MS Office has a quite a few add-ins (plugins) of its own. They do a lot to enhance work productivity when it comes to extending the way we work with documents and presentations. Do you use any of the 3 Microsoft Word Plugins to Boost Your MS Word Experience? Then there was the one [...]
July 15, 2010
As I pointed out in an earlier post about Microsoft’s new Office Web Apps, there is an undeniable push towards storing document data online (in the cloud). This puts traditional Office suites in a bit of a sticky situation. They do retain a superior interface for editing documents, but they lack a built-in way to [...]
July 5, 2010
I was wondering to myself, there has to be an easy way to do this on a Mac. I knew that by owning a Mac, I didn’t have to resort to additional applications to help me get this menial task done. And I was right! Merging and splitting PDF documents on a Mac is just [...]
June 29, 2010
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the process of converting text captured in an image into a text document. This procedure is rarely flawless since little irregularities in the image, think of a newspaper scan, may cause the OCR software to make mistakes. Hence, spell checking is an indispensable step in completing any OCR job. Unfortunately, [...]
