Using HP Scan & Capture To Create PDFs From Your Scanner

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...

Windows 8 Tip: How To Delete PDFs Without Throwing Your Computer Out The Window

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...

Windows 8 Tip: How To Play DVDs In Windows 8

Nov 11, 2014 | software, video, Windows tips, Windows8

Windows 8 does not include built-in support for playing movies from a DVD. If you can’t play a movie, your options are different than you might expect. It was easy with Windows 7. Windows Media Player isn’t a very good program but at least it can play a movie in...

Crazy Eddie Sale On Microsoft Office–They’re Giving It Away!

Nov 7, 2014 | Android, Apple, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, OneDrive, phone, software, tablet

Microsoft unexpectedly announced that the Office apps on iPad, iPhone and Android devices can now be used for free without an Office 365 subscription. There are new versions of the core Office programs – Word, Excel and Powerpoint – for iPhones, updates for the...

What The Deal Between Dropbox And Microsoft Really Means

Nov 6, 2014 | Android, Apple, Box, Dropbox, Google, Google Drive, iPad, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, OneDrive, Outlook, software, tablet, web_services

Dropbox and Microsoft unexpectedly announced a partnership to allow Office users to access and edit files stored in Dropbox directly from Office apps on phones, tablets and the web. The announcement comes just a week after Microsoft eviscerated Dropbox’s business...

Price Reduced For New Office 365 Business Plans

Oct 27, 2014 | Microsoft, Office, Office 365, software, web_services

Small businesses can now choose new, cheaper plans for Office 365. Making a choice is not a well-organized experience at the moment, though, because a long list of plans includes all the previous overlapping and confusing versions. There are three new plans. All of...