Having tried a bunch of PDF writers like Acrobat Standard itself, and PDF Creator, PDF 995, Desktop PDF etc, many of which sit as Acrobat Distiller printer modules, here is a simple tip.
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Remember the Windows error reporting screen? Apparently, it's success has prompted Microsoft to adopt a whole new quality management program designed to allow its Windows programmers to share users' pains. Hence the "We Share Your Pain" or WSYP program.
Read MoreNifty little desktop widgets that put information at your fingertips, and look pretty to boot.
Read MoreIf not to make things simpler for you, then for the sheer delight of it, it's kind of fun to make your Windows PC look like a Mac. A full theme from FlyakiteOSX, sounds and all, makes it a breeze.
Want a Mac look on your Windows machine? Skins and themes would be nice, but there's more to that when you want to REALLY emulate a Mac OSX interface entirely. There are plenty of programs available to emulate specific features of OSX, e.g. Finder, icons, etc [example].
But Flyakite OSX is a project that's looking mature, and it comes with a very complete theme, including sounds and mouse cursors and Explorer customization, things you don't typically expect from a simple 'theme'.
The website goes for a Mac look itself, which is a bit painful, but it's worth the download.
Before you go for it, some caveats
- The performance of your machine in general may be affected, of course. Not too much though.
- The theme does fundamentally change some core files like Explorer.exe but (a) it makes a backup so you can go back with a simple uninstall, and (b) it doesn't screw up any additional functionality like my Groove button on my Explorer bar.
- I don't like shadows under my windows, but that seems to built-in in the skin.
- Some things like Windows Media Player will not change. WMP has its own skin, which remains untouched.
Interesting technology for user interfaces. Check out the link and the video
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Read MoreNYT is running a misleading (to put it politely) article titled "Corrupted PC's Find New Home In the Dumpster" which basically advocates throwing out your old PC and getting a new one if you get infected by worms or viruses. Yeah right and so forth
Read MoreRobert Cringley of PBS isn't happy with merely a tech column. He wants his own TV show, downloadable from the PBS website of course in true geek spirit.
Can't get enough nerdiness on Slashdot and Kuro5hin? Starting Sept. 6, PBS will broadcast a Web-exclusive downloadable series featuring the best of the nerd lot.
Dubbed NerdTVâ„¢ ?, the series of 13 one-hour shows will be hosted by technology columnist and industry insider Robert X. Cringely.
Cringely, author of "Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date," will interview such nerd notables as Pay-Pal co-founder Max Levchin, original Macintosh programmer Andy Hertzfeld and Bill Joy, father of Berkeley UNIX.
In a column on pbs.org last week, Cringely offered a bunch of nerd-friendly production and format specs for the series and stressed that NerdTV will be distributed under a Creative Commons license, which means viewers can redistribute the shows at will. Which is an interesting development, the CC license is beginning to be heralded among music circles as well, because it affords an artist the ability to remix and mash licensed songs as they see fit for non-commercial purposes. Personally, I can't wait to make my own 'remixed' versions of Cringely's show for my own nefarious purposes.
Read MoreCombination of Gmail's RSS reading functionality and Bit Torrent files available through RSS files. So you have no excuse now not to use all that gaping storage space in your Gmail account.
Read MoreIf, like me, you're tired of running into loads of spam on Technorati and Feedster these days, you know how exciting the prospect of blog-only searching by the two big tyke search engines is. Well Yahoo's making overtures (no pun intended).
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