Tag Archives : pdf

Automator is one of my favorite applications on OS X. Wait … scratch that ! It is my favorite automation tool. Period. Now, there are automation tools available for all consumer operating systems but as far as I know there isn’t any that makes automating tasks as easy as Automator. It’s...

As a child, my parents used to present me with an encyclopedia every year on my birthday. It started around the time I was in the second grade or so and continued till I was around 14. I still remember the joy I used to get reading up those thick books crammed with information about this wonderful world...

Almost all search engines support searching inside PDF files and almost all of them have special keywords that the user can pass if you want them to return only PDF related results, but by default the results that you see for any query are mixed with regular web links as well PDF files. If you’d...

The PDF file format has always been an integral part of the Mac OS X user interface because of the fact that the underlying technology behind the graphical interface, Quartz, is based on PDF. That is why, while other operating systems needed third party tools to enable things like printing a file to...

The Amazon Kindle is an extremely capable and versatile e-book reader. It has been a runaway success from the time it was released about an year back. Last month Amazon released version 2.0 of the Kindle and that has also been recieved very well. The only problem with the Kindle is that it doesn’t...

FreePDFCards is a nice web application that can help you design your business card online for free. If you’ve been dying to have your very own business card with your own blog’s logo on it, but were afraid of the costs involved, now is the time to give this site a try. To get started, just...

PDF is a file format created by Adobe for exchanging documents. The good thing about PDF is that the files retain the formatting and fonts even when viewed on a system different than the one they’ve been created on. That is the reason, PDF has become the de-facto format for sharing documents over...