New “Office on a Stick” from Corel.
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Adobe invented the PDF, so understandably the granddaddy of PDF editors is Adobe Acrobat. But at $300, it does a whole lot more than most people need or want. Recently we found something cheaper. It’s “PDFZilla,” the Godzilla of PDF converters. We got it for $30 from pdfzilla.com.
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Tis the season for accounting programs, and some QuickBook users may be wondering if it’s worth updating to Quickbooks 2009. We had a chat with Bonnie Biafore, author of “Quickbooks 2009, the Missing Manual.”
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A new enhancement to GoToMeeting software makes it possible to include many people, from nearly anywhere in the world, at no charge.
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Moli.com is a free business networking site created by the founders of Etrade, the online discount stockbroker. It went live this past January and already has 237,000 members.
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Webcards lets you create small web sites, about the size of large index cards, for businesses that don’t have the time or money to build and maintain their own. Just fill in a form and it’s done.
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A Windows utility called “eXpresso” allows a number of people to collaborate on the same spreadsheet, online at the same time. Now that businesses have employees scattered across the world, such collaboration can be very useful.
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We remember the first time we saw a clerk at a fast food restaurant press a finger on a picture of a sandwich to ring up a sale. Now, just about any business can be set up to do that with a touch screen and some appropriate software.
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Here’s an update to a service we covered last year. Instead of plastering “for sale” fliers on car windshields, you can send digital notices to major Web services like craigslist, eBay, Google Base and others.
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BillMeLater.com is an alternative payment system for people who are leery of giving out their credit card information over the Web. (Click the blue link above for the full review.)
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