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 [...]
A Look Inside Secunia Software Inspector
I’ve found a great tool that examines my computer to make sure that it has the latest updates of the most common software packages — not all the updates, but the security updates for the versions I’m runninng. It’s called Secunia Software Inspector, from the Danish security firm Secunia (www.secunia.com). Secunia offers three versions of [...]
A Look at Foxit Reader | Foxit Reader Review
Recently, one of my subscribers wanted to know about a free program to let him fill in PDF forms. I made a quick check and realized that the free PDF reader Foxit Reader would do this. While Foxit Reader also has a Pro Pack available to add additional functions, the free version does almost everything [...]
Accessing and Reading Usenet Newsgroups
Reader Greg H. wrote recently to ask for help solving his inability to access the Usenet newsgroups on Verison’s servers. For those not familiar with Usenet newsgroups, think of them as a mailing list type of system that has been around for well over 25 years. Rather than emails sent to our computers, though, the [...]
Software Review: 7-Zip Compression Utility
Program: 7-Zip, version 4.57 Publisher: Igor Pavlov www.7-zip.org Category: Compression/Decompression Archiving Utility 7-zip is open-source software and is licensed under a user-friendly license. You can download it for free and use it for free, including redistribute it (as long as you include the license with it). I’ve been trying 7-Zip recently as an alternative to Filzip — [...]
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