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TQT: New Fonts…

Written by The Digitante on April 28, 2010 - 1 Comment
Categories: TQT, computer

The internet can be a scary place. The most terrifying thing you can do is type the word “free” into Google. An excellent example is if you want a few font on your computer and you end up searching for “free fonts”. There is an excellent chance that if you proceeded to the resulting links, [...]

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Printing PDFs…

Written by The Digitante on November 13, 2009 - 0 Comments
Categories: Adobe, computer, productivity

You’ve probably seen PDFs everywhere you go on the internet these days. They are very popular and with good reason. But did you ever wonder how people make PDFs? We’ll cover a bunch of information related to PDFs and by the end, you’ll be a professional PDFer. PDF basics PDF stands for Portable Document Format. [...]

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Acrobat.com Preview…

Written by The Digitante on October 6, 2009 - 1 Comment
Categories: computer, internet

Tonight I had a phone conversation with Mark, a guy from the marketing department at Adobe. Someone over there had seen my write up on Google Docs from a couple of weeks ago and they wanted to give me a tour of their similar online offerings, Acrobat.com. During the 35 minute conversation, Mark showed me [...]

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Google Docs…

Written by The Digitante on September 10, 2009 - 0 Comments
Categories: Google

Microsoft Office owns a lion-share of the word processing (Word), spreadsheet (Excel), and presentation software (PowerPoint) market. These tools have great feature sets and can perform tasks from the mundane to the complex. There were a number of drawbacks to Microsoft Office, including the big two: file sharing and the cost. Google Docs has managed [...]

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