One of my "Killer Apps" for my Smartphone is Mobipocket Reader. I’m an avid reader of ebooks, mostly science fiction. I’ve bought several hardback books from Baen Books that have included CDROMs of a lot of their books in HTML, text and PDB format for easy reading. If you’re a science fiction fan, check out [...]
Top Web Design Books
I’ve looked at, and bought a lot of web design books. These are the three best I’ve found for ease of use and good discussion of basic topics. Web Site Usability First, there’s Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think. Its subtitle is "a self-proclaimed common sense approach to web usability" — and it’s right with [...]
Read Ebooks on your Computer or PDA
If you are a PDA user like I am, you keep your personal digital assistant with you at all times. What could be a better way to have a good book for those short dead-times in your schedule? I’m on my fourth PalmOS® PDA. With flash memory, I have 128MB of space for my ebooks [...]
A Look at ClickBook for Windows / ClickBook MMX / ClickBook 2010
Product: ClickBook MMXPublisher:BlueSquirrelVersion Reviewed: 13.0.2.0Class: Pseudo-printer. Creates banners, booklets, flip charts, brochures, greeting cards, posters, PDF files and more. License: Commercial product. Free trial. Upgrade pricing (from earlier versions) available.Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows Vista , Windows 7 (32- and 64-bit) For years, my choice of programs to create PDF files was BlueSquirrel’s Click2PDF. Ever [...]
Adobe Reader 8 Problems – And a Change to Foxit Reader
I started having a bunch of problems this week with my notebook jumping to 100% CPU usage. It wasn’t just a temporary problem either — at one point, I walked away for 30 minutes. When I returned to my computer, the problem was still there — and my computer was virtually useless. After a couple [...]
Adobe Acrobat Reader 8 Review
Adobe Systems Incorporated(www.adobe.com) has released a version 8 of their Adobe Reader program. While the software giant publishes many other premium-level programs, Adobe is best known for the its creation of the PDF document format that is used on almost all computers. Almost all electronics manufacturers, and many other manufacturers, too, now make their manuals [...]
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