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Archive for October, 2008

Create PDF Files for Free

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

One of the easiest ways to document web pages and other printable content is to “print” them into a PDF file. Adobe’s Acrobat program provides a printer driver to create such files from anything that you can print.
Of course, Acrobat is out of reach for many people, or at least, we don’t have any desire [...]

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Why Back Up Your Computer?

Monday, October 13th, 2008

As a long-time personal computer user, I learned the importance of backing up my data long, long ago.
There are just too many things that can go wrong when you’re working on your computer. Whether it is a hard drive that goes bad (or a floppy, in the old days), or a mental lapse on the [...]

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