SCANNERS LIVE IN VAIN

Our friend Carol has an old printer-scanner combo with the worst scanning software we’ve ever seen. It was enough to tick off the Good Humor man…. Read more

A BETTER PDF READER

Adobe Reader is the free program most people use to open “PDFs,” which are documents that retain their original look (all the formatting and… Read more

FREE PDF TOOL ADDS DIGITAL SIGNATURE

Gone are the days when you needed expensive software to fill out a form on your computer. Even if the form comes in as an uneditable PDF, the free… Read more

HANDWRITING RECOGNITION

We tried out a new pen, the “Anoto penDocuments ,” designed to read your handwriting. There have been several devices of this type over the years… Read more

CONNECTIFY.ME AND OTHER SITES

Crocodoc.com is a free service that lets you mark up, fill out, and highlight PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint slides, and web… Read more

PDF PARADISE

Joy has recently been plagued with this message: ““Cannot  use Adobe Reader to open PDF in your browser. Please exit your browser and try… Read more

PDF PARADISE

The new PDF Reader from Nuance PDF is a free program that opens “PDFs.”  These are documents that retain their formatting no matter what program… Read more

THE GODZILLA OF PDF EDITORS

Anyone who has the free Adobe Reader can open a PDF, which is the most widely used method of saving documents in their original format. PDF stands… Read more

TO PDF OR NOT TO PDF

Two new $99 programs from Nuance and ABBYY take dead aim at Adobe’s $499 Acrobat Professional and offer to do nearly the same thing for much less…. Read more