I guess I got very used to working for the man and the perks that come with it. I have had Adobe Professional on my desktop and laptop for a long time now. When I had to create a quick PDF from a word document on a client’s site - after my laptop suffered from battery drainage I had some issues.
I quickly Googled around looking for a free, easy solution. Lots of places claimed to do what I wanted but the first one that did it EASY and FREE was doPDF.
I personally hate printing content directly from the web - even if the page “has been formatted for printing.” This is because it seems web designers and corporations alike do not care about the environment or your wallet (ink is expensive!).
They wind up printing advertisements at the bottom of your printouts or some times even (gasp!) in the middle of your content.
I found a site via the Make Use Of Directory this morning that has greatly improved my quality of printing. With this nifty little site you can either use their website or save a bookmarklet that lets you launch PrintWhatYouLike on the site you are viewing by clicking it.
I’ve been offline for the past few days doing a complete re-install of Windows XP on my PC. Although the actual installation of XP is rather fast (it only took 45 minutes), what actually takes up a huge amount of time is installing the extras - the drivers and the software which you need. his has taken me the best part of 2 days - and I am still not finished yet.
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