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!
November 3, 2011
Out of all the common file types found in our computing world, PDF is probably one of the most restrictive ones, while at the same time being available for everyone to use (primarily to read). Indeed, the world of PDF reading is full of sunshine and rainbows, but once you want to create your own PDFs it seems as if you’ll be leaving with an empty wallet – if anything.
November 1, 2011
When it comes to smartphones, many of us want to be able to use them to do all manner of useful home office tasks just to make our lives easier. So it’s a phone, a camera, a handy email client, social networking centre and all the rest. But what about a scanner? Well, it can do that extremely well too. CamScanner is an exceptional application for this.
September 23, 2011
Picture this. You have a really important meeting at work today, one that you’ve been up most of the night preparing for, creating documents, spreadsheets, and what not. You’ve been tasked with making digital copies of your physical notes to send to your colleagues to help prep them for this meeting, which starts in about [...]
April 18, 2011
Lately, I’ve been trying to scan my class notes and handouts, and transfer some e-textbooks so I can view them on my Kindle to save myself carrying too much in my backpack. This is something that Calibre could help convert easily to ebook reader-friendly formats, but the resulting PDF files are often huge, have several [...]
February 8, 2011
Amazon has just announced that sales of its e-books have already surpassed printed books. Even though the news could be the sign that digital publications have started to hold its ground, e-books (and e-documents) still have a long way to go before they can completely replace their printed counterparts – if ever. Kindle, iPad and [...]
November 22, 2010
A recent inquiry from a MakeUseOf reader asking for suggestions on an inexpensive PDF tool that allowed resizing and optimizing PDF files, prompted me to search for suitable PDF editors. While there are many PDF reading applications that are handy alternatives to Adobe Reader, applications that allow you to make simple edits to PDF files [...]
September 27, 2010
If you’ve been thinking about creating an eBook but aren’t sure where to start, why not take a look at your blog? You probably already have a ton of carefully written content, that could make for an interesting eBook. And there are a few free online services that make it as simple as possible to [...]
April 29, 2010
Adobe’s PDF (Portable Document Format) has been in the limelight ever since it came into existence in 1993. However, Adobe made it ridiculously expensive for end users to create PDF documents. While the PDF Reader was free, the creator itself was very expensive. And the story hasn’t changed one bit in all these years. PDFCreator, however, [...]
March 19, 2010
Among the different types of documents that exist today, PDF is one of the most used. PDF is popular because it can hold the consistency of the document. Publishing a document in PDF is like printing it on paper. So the document’s appearance will stay the same wherever you look at it. That’s why many [...]
