I think I've made my dislike of Adobe known previously, but there are plenty of reasons to look for alternatives to Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader: Price, bloat, load time, and interface. Make anything a PDF: There are a lot of programs that use the same approach of a printer sub-system. I've listed a few of them and my notes below. Essentially where you would normally save a … [Read more...]
General Knowledge Base
General Knowledge Base is exactly as it is titled. It is a general-use knowledge base. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. It could be also be called Generic KB. This is not meant to bash the program. It is general enough to be flexible enough to address plenty of needs but it doesn't really specialize in one area either. General Knowledge Base by BaltSoft requires a … [Read more...]
Highlighting with Paint.NET
If you have a text heavy image and want to draw the reader's eye to a particular location, you can add highlighting just like in real life. In just a few steps: Start off by opening your image in Paint.Net Now we'll need to add a new layer. We'll do all our highlighting in a new layer to keep it separate from the original work. Click the 'New Layer button' on the layer … [Read more...]
HP Smart Web Printing – Reducing paper and toner waste
Comparable to the previous post about GreenPrint, HP offers a similar product to help reduce paper and toner waste. HP Smart Web Printing allows you to highlight what you want to print and basically crop from webpages what you want to print. You can then rearrange the clips to print how you want or to fit onto one page instead of multiple. It's less intrusive than GreenPrint … [Read more...]
Make Thunderbird check all folders for new messages
I have my e-mail filter into a few different folders based on who the sender is. This lets me keep my inbox a little more organized and keeps listserv conversations separated into their own folders. The only problem with this setup was that I wasn't being informed that there were new messages arriving in these folders, only the inbox. I would have to manually click on each … [Read more...]