Archive for September, 2008
A GreenPrint White Paper on reducing printed pages
GreenPrint Technologies have written a White Paper on how GreenPrint can be used to reduce the number of pages that you print to paper from PDF. The idea behind GreenPrint is simple — it reviews your document before printing and highlights any pages to you that it thinks you may not want to print. You can [...]
Pear Note: not a bad apple here…
Useful Fruit software, a relatively new company run by Chad Sellers, a former system-level security developer who worked in the Linux environment — has just released their Mac-based software, Pear Note — which is designed “… to help users take and understand notes”.
In detail, Useful Fruit say that:
Pear Note records audio and/or video while you take your [...]
NeatReceipts tidies its name, and wants to tidy your desktop too!
Cnet news is reporting that NeatReceipts has decided that using the word receipts in their company name was a little too restrictive, and that from now, they’d prefer to be known as The Neat Company.
Along with the branding change, The Neat Company also released a new product called the NeatDesk (photo below).
NeatDesk includes a 50-page document [...]
Extra, extra — read all about it, textbooks given away free (well, cheaply)!
An up-and-coming company, Flat World Knowledge plans to go live in January 2009, offering an alternative way for students to purchase their textbooks (in mostly digital form). Online versions will be free, PDF versions will be cheap, and print on demand versions will be modestly priced. You’ll be able to view these on devices such [...]
The Xerox Travel Scanner 100 is cool
One thing I’ve never liked about scanners is their size — they aren’t exactly portable in the laptop sense of the word. But that looks like it’s starting to change, with Xerox releasing the Xerox Travel Scanner 100.
It’s small, it’s powerful and it’s portable. More details from Xerox:
The Xerox Travel Scanner measures only 2″ x 1.5″ x [...]
The Future of Newspapers
Thad McIlroy (The Future of Publishing) has written a detailed analysis on The Future of Newspapers. Overall his rating for the future of the newspaper industry is negative. Here are some excerpts:
On the surface, newspaper publishing in North America appears to be in big trouble; but then, the newspaper industry been in ever-increasing trouble for a [...]
iRex Digital Reader 1000 series released (and it bounces!)
iRex Technologies has released a new version of their electronic reading device — the iRex Digital Reader 1000 series. The iRex 1000 series features a unique 10.2 inch electronic paper display and increased memory, as well as a durable design, which was demonstrated when the device was dropped from a height of 1 meter, and survived to tell [...]
The office of the 90s
My old work-buddy Kurt Foss, Online Editor of Adobe Acrobat User Community, wrote a short piece on a video I’ve been trying to track down for some time.
The video is centered around a typical “office of the 90s ” and is included on page 24 as part of a Flash-presentation that celebrates “25 Years of Innovation” [...]
10 tips for a happier PDF life
Reena over at Investintech.com has come up with an innovative list of 10 tips that can make working with PDFs easier. My top 3 favorite tips are:
4. Add bookmarks to your PDFs.
Bookmark lengthy PDFs. There’s nothing more irritating than having to blindly scroll and Ctrl +G your way through a PDF you just created. Toggling back between [...]
Watch eSeminar on PDF and Flash now for free
Don’t frett if you didn’t see our note about the eSeminar on PDF and Flash in time to watch it live — the eSeminar is now available for on-demand viewing. The free one hour seminar covers:
Incorporating Flash Player-compatible content to make rich, engaging PDF documents
Adding Flash Player-compatible video to PDF documents, including FLV and H.264-encoded [...]
Acrobat 9 an “emergence into adulthood”
Back in November 2006, Thad McIlroy, publishing consultant and analyst from The Future of Publishing sent a scathing letter to the Planet PDF Editor, Dan Shea:
I think that Acrobat 8 is one of the weakest upgrades I’ve seen in years. Adobe is apparently angry with me for saying so, but that’s just Adobe getting all imperial, [...]
