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Jon Stewart: What’s Black And White And Completely Over?
As Trevor Cook pointed out today in his Crikey blog, it wasn’t so long ago that people were predicating newspapers would only last another few decades — now of course that predication looks rather generous. On top of all the gloomy talk on blogs and in the media about the decline of newspapers, Jon Stewart [...]
The Amazon Kindle - a real firestarter? Top five comments…
Now about 10 months from its release in mid-to-late November in 2007 — enough time has passed to see what people really think of Amazon’s Kindle.
For those who haven’t owned one, used one, or otherwise seen one - you can find a floating copy of the original introduction video here on YouTube - The Amazon Kindle.
I’ve [...]
Upcoming seminar - PDF & Flash
Drum roll please!
On Wednesday, September 17, 2008, The Acrobat User Community Team will be hosting an eSeminar on how to drop a flash file inside a PDF without the need for any additional media players.
It’s an interactive 75-min eSeminar, sign up here, get some popcorn, an ice-cream and come along!
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
10:00 am US Pacific / 1:00 pm [...]
Project Paper-less
Despite decades of talk about the fabled paperless office, consumption of paper has continued to grow exponentially. In Australia, 1.4 million tonnes of printing and fine paper are used every year, with the average paper document being copied 19 times. And to add insult to injury, it’s estimated that only 11% of office paper is [...]
PDFescape - free online PDF editing tool
A number of online PDF editors are starting to emerge, and I believe it’s a trend that’s only going to continue, perhaps culminating in Adobe releasing a truly online version of Acrobat.
Previously we’ve looked at PDF Hammer and now we’re going to look at PDFescape. I found PDFescape generally pretty easy to use and the [...]
A PDF experts initial relections on Google Chrome
Long-time PDF expert Duff Johnson has shared some of his initial thoughts on Google’s new Chrome browser:
I had wondered if Google was going to (try to) write their own PDF viewer for Chrome. Not this time; the installer seems to find and use the Acrobat/Reader plugin, assuming it’s already installed into Firefox or (presumably) IE. That’s [...]
PDFHammer.com: free online PDF editor
There’s a few online services that offer free PDF creation, but there are barely any that offer free online PDF editing, like PDFHammer does. It allows you to merge PDF files together, reorder and delete pages, apply password-based security and add and edit document metadata fields like author, title, subject and keywords.
All from the comfort [...]
Convert web pages to PDF with Ubiquity
Mozilla Labs have just released Ubiquity, an experiment in using command-like calls to interact with web services. Users of the Google ‘command-line’ — if you don’t know what I’m talking about at this point type time in new york into Google — will most likely find this tool pretty useful. By the way, it’s a [...]
Go Paperless
When I stumbled across a YouTube video called The Paperless Office - A Business Saga a few days ago, I also stumbled across a bunch of other “paperless office” themed videos, to which I’ll post links over the next couple of weeks. The one I have embedded into this post is somewhat special. It appears [...]
Dear Adobe: love it or hate it - a little user feedback
No matter how much you like a particular piece of software, there’s almost certainly something about it that irks you, whether it be the installer, the start-up time, a bug that never gets fixed or featuritis. Enter Dear Adobe, a place where you can vent about Adobe products until your heart’s content.
Submit your own gripes or rate [...]
The Paperless Office — A Business Saga
…and now for something completely different. I guess these guys (omtool) must have read all those books on viral marketing. Anyway, good on them for spicing things up a bit — you don’t see much of this in the document management space — check it out:
