April 21, 2012
What do you do when you need a PDF but your scanner and the software that comes with it only gives you images? Hexonic ScanToPDF can take care of those problems quickly and easily. The great thing about this program is that it almost does a direct conversion from an image format to a PDF.
February 20, 2012
I’ve been calling Linux Mint my main OS, an experience which has absolutely blown my mind. Linux Mint simply works beautifully, without any of the quirks that drove me up the wall in Ubuntu. However, I have observed that there are no alternatives (yet) for some of the programs that I call indispensable and have grown to love in Windows.
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!
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.
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.
August 5, 2011
Though Apple’s PDF reader and image correction application, Preview, is a highly used default program on the Mac, a third-party alternative reader, Skim, pushes Preview to the side when it comes to advanced study and annotation tools and features. A slew of additional annotation tools and document management features have been added.
June 21, 2011
PDFs are great, there’s no argument there. But reading and editing PDFs can get quite cumbersome, especially when the main contender out there is Adobe Acrobat, which you might need to sell your house in order to buy. Nitro PDF Reader is an awesome free option which we’ve covered here in the past, and today, Nitro is getting a younger brother in the form of Nitro PDF Reader 2.
May 4, 2011
Nitro PDF Professional, Sticky Password PRO 5.0, Zoner Photo Studio 13 HOME, MaxTo and IObit Advanced SystemCare PRO 3. Those are the amazing Windows apps featured in this limited edition charity bundle. Worth over $200 in Windows software, you have the opportunity of purchasing this bundle for $30 and to top it off, all $30 will be donated to the Japanese Red Cross. There are only 300 copies of the bundle available so you might want to buy it now it before it runs out.
April 28, 2011
Paper costs money. Save both by printing your PDFs on half-pages. Whether you want a booklet or side-by-side copies, a free tool for Windows not only makes this possible but also simple. Stop messing around with printer settings and get the document exactly how you want it. If you use your printer often, this is a tool you should probably know about.
March 19, 2011
Crop margins out of PDFs to them reader friendly for your Kindle, Kobo or other e-reader device. Briss is a cross-platform program that makes a format, designed with printing in mind, work a little better on e-ink devices. The PDF is a fantastic document format, looking the same across all platforms and including all fonts [...]
