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Take Control of Your PDF Documents With PDFTK
Mar 31st
There’s a good chance that you use Adobe Acrobat documents in your daily work, school or personal life. They’re very useful for keeping a nicely formatted copy of your information, especially manuals and educational material.
But what if you only need part of a really large PDF document? Or what if you if have a collection of related PDF documents you’d like to merge into a single document? PDFTK will handle these for you, as well as rotate, add a watermark or stamp and (possibly) repair damaged PDF files.
There are several flavors of PDFTK: More >
August 11, 2009 – Next Microsoft Patch Tuesday, including 5 Critical Updates
Aug 8th
This “Microsoft Patch Tuesday” (incidentally, the latest a “Patch Tuesday” can occur because August, 2009 started on a Saturday) includes 9 updates, including 5 critical updates for Windows operating systems.
Most of the critical updates are related to the ATL (ATL or Active Template Library, which allows developers to write ActiveX controls). Windows users will want to be sure to install these updates to address this serious flaw.
jkDefrag is now MyDefrag — and now, even faster!
Jul 24th
MyDefrag version 4.1 is a hard disk defragmenter and optimizer. If it looks familiar, that’s because it was previously called jkDefrag, which we covered last year. Because it uses the same API (application programmer interface) built into Windows that Microsoft’s own Disk Defragmenter uses it is safe to use. Unlike Microsoft’s utility, MyDefrag works much more quickly.
One reason for MyDefrag’s effectiveness is that it moves files to the physical “start” of a hard drive. Accessing files from this area of a hard drive is up to 200% faster than from other areas.
Using MyDefrag
To get the most of out MyDefrag: More >