Apr 20, 2015 | Adobe, Office, software
Adobe has released Acrobat DC, a new version of Acrobat with a completely revamped look and lots of Features You Probably Won’t Use™. Let’s see if we can answer some of the basic questions about what’s new, where you can get it, and how much it costs. But we’ll start...
Feb 17, 2015 | Adobe, HP, Office, software, Windows8
HP Scan and Capture is a free app for Windows 8.1 that can create PDFs from scanned documents – if your computer and scanner meet the requirements. It may help some of you avoid paying Adobe’s expensive subscription rate for Adobe Acrobat. The takeaway • HP Scan and...
Nov 22, 2014 | Adobe, software, Windows tips, Windows8
Here’s a trick that may keep you from going crazy one day. I wish I’d known it before I gouged this nasty dent in the top of my desk with my forehead. It’s such a simple thing. Open up File Explorer in Windows 8. Find a PDF that you don’t want. Highlight it. Press...
Sep 10, 2014 | Adobe, Microsoft, Surface, updates
It’s Patch Tuesday and your computers are dutifully installing the usual crop of Microsoft updates and restarting overnight, or asking you to restart when you log in Wednesday morning. It’s a modest collection of Patch Tuesday updates this month. Surface Pro 3 owners...
Jun 29, 2014 | Adobe, hardware, OneDrive, shopping, software
Offices are stepping up their efforts to go paperless by scanning and recycling paper files and incoming documents. For years I have told clients that the Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 (previously the ScanSnap S1500) is the best tool for desktop scanning. I knew that from...
Jun 9, 2014 | Adobe, shopping, software, web_services
Adobe Acrobat is almost as prevalent in businesses as Microsoft Office. Almost all office workers now outgrow the free Adobe Reader and need access to the full Acrobat program to create PDFs, scan documents, fill forms, convert PDFs to Word format, and more. Acrobat...
