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Sumatra 1.0 Is A Blazing Fast Replacement For Adobe Reader
8:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: The Sumatra PDF Viewer is a tiny, open-source, portable, and most of all, lightning-quick replacement for the bloated Adobe Reader we’ve all learned to replace. It’s only a 1.2MB download, so why not give it a try? More »
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Microsoft’s Free Windows 7 Ebook Details Deployment Nitty Gritty
11:00AM Adam Pash | Earlier today we showed you the practical steps you should take to prep your PC for Windows 7, but if you want to get all kinds of detailed, Microsoft’s free, 332-page ebook might be worth a download. More »
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Automatically Open PDFs, PowerPoint Presentations With Google’s Doc Viewer
8:00AM Adam Pash | Most web browsers: Google’s Doc Viewer allows you to view any PDF, PPT, and TIFF directly in your browser without downloading the file and launching another heavy desktop application. This user script automatically redirects any link to such files to Doc Viewer More »
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12:30PM Angus Kidman | There are numerous formats for e-books and other electronic documents, but PDF remains the most common and popular. Here’s the tools you need for reading and working with PDF without spending a fortune or succumbing to Adobe bloatware. More »
Best Tools For Reading And Creating PDFs
12:30PM Angus Kidman | There are numerous formats for e-books and other electronic documents, but PDF remains the most common and popular. Here’s the tools you need for reading and working with PDF without spending a fortune or succumbing to Adobe bloatware. More »
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OnlineOCR Converts Your Scanned Documents To Editable Text
12:30AM Jason Fitzpatrick | A page of printed notes from an instructor, an old proposal you want to edit, a letter your boss wants turned into a template, OnlineOCR can help take an image of text and turn it into an editable copy. More »
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CeeVee Creates Clean-Look Resumes For Web Or Print
2:00AM Kevin Purdy | Resume-making tools are a dime a dozen, but free webapp CeeVee has notable advantages. Auto-filling from Facebook profiles, easy print and PDF export, and simple editing tools make it more convenient than manhandling Word for an hour. More »
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Quick View Puts PDF Search Results In Google’s Viewer
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Yesterday we shared a handy, link-converting bookmarklet that pulls up any PDF in Google’s lightweight, web-based viewer. Now Google is inserting a “Quick View” link next to any PDF file in search results, offering the same quick document glance. More »
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Google Docs Viewer Bookmarklet Makes PDFs Less Freeze-y
10:40PM Kevin Purdy | Clicking a PDF and waiting, waiting, waiting for it to load, or possibly crash your browser, is an inescapable web annoyance of bad-stand-up-comedy proportions. Unless you convert all of a page’s PDF links to open with Google Doc’s streamlined viewer. More »
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STDU Viewer Is An Impressive Tabbed Document Reader
4:30AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Free application STDU Viewer is an all-in-one tabbed reader for electronic documents, supporting everything from your standard PDF to the less common comic book archive (CBZ/CBR). It’s free, fairly lightweight and snappy. More »
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