January 21, 2009
This will be a big year for new operating systems. Apple (AAPL) plans a new version of its Macintosh operating system, to be called Snow Leopard. Palm (PALM) plans an all-new smart phone operating system called Palm WebOS. But the new release that will affect more users than any other will be Window...
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Walter S. Mossberg
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December 13, 2008
I love Adobe PDF files. I love the format, the features and their ease of use.  But I have never really bonded with Adobe Reader or FoxIt and to be honest, I am not a big fan of overloading my computer with too many bloated software programs in the first place.  If I can find an online equiv...
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Mark O'Neill
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November 05, 2008
Somewhere between the laptop and the smart phone, the computer industry has long believed there could be a small, low-cost device that would please consumers and sell well. The device would be more versatile than, say, an iPhone, but much cheaper and more portable than, say, a ThinkPad. The trouble ...
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Walter S. Mossberg
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July 03, 2008
Gotta hand it to Adobe. they truly know how to protect their products. with the advent of PDF readers and writers superior, easier and cheaper to Adobe Reader like Foxit Reader, Adobe knows the only way to protect the PDF business is not only to add better support and more options with the too...
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April 28, 2008
The PDF file format was created by Adobe Systems to facilitate document exchange. Many users still find the need to convert PDF files into other formats, like Word and HTML. The most common question of PDF users is how to convert PDF document to an ordinary Word document. Why is there a need for PDF...
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April 26, 2008
Foxit Reader 2.3 supports tabs, that was the headline on many blogs that I read regularly, for instance at Cybernet News and Download Squad. My first thought was that surely no one but die hard pdf users would need tabs in a pdf reader. I don’t need tabs, I need a fast tool that displays the p...
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April 22, 2008
Prompted by Jamie Phelps’ post about Adobe Reader’s aggravating hijack of PDF viewing in browsers, I finally got inspired to track down Adobe’s feedback page and left them this: Installing Acrobat Professional CS3 apparently hijacks Mac OS X’s default PDF viewer in my browser...
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December 26, 2007
I think we can all agree on the fact that the Adobe Reader is bloated if you only use it for opening PDF documents. It comes with so many plugins that the loading time is sometimes longer than the reading time of the document that you opened. I have been using a software called Adobe Reader Speedup ...
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