PrimoPDF – Free PDF converter

Are you looking for a free PDF creator/generator? You don’t have to spend high prices to create a decent PDF document.

PrimoPDF (http://www.primopdf.com/) is a free to use PDF converter program. When installed, it works like a printer device that you can print documents from any Windows Application such as Microsoft Word and Firefox Web browser.

For example, if you would like to create a PDF document for a Yahoo Website, visit Yahoo.com in your favorite Web browser and click on the Print menu.

Print Window
When you see the Print Popup windows , select ‘PrimoPDF’ from the Printer selection list. Then click on the ‘OK’ button to print.

Then a new PrimoPDF window shows such as below.
PrimoPDF print window

Now you can just define the new PDF file name to save as by clicking the “…” browse button. After selecting the filename, you can finish by click on the ‘OK’ button.

Here is the captured image of the PDF file opened with Adobe Reader 8. You can click on the image to view the enlarged image.
Opened with Adobe Reader

Another great thing about PrimoPDF is that it does not print any kind of Watermark in the generated PDF file unlike some freeware/shareware PDF softwares. So you get the exact document that you want to print.

Here is the actual PDF file , Yahoo!.pdf, created with the PrimoPDF.

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Desktop Widget Comparison

There are several similar products when it comes to Desktop Widgets. There are

  • Apple DashBoard
  • Microsoft Vista Gadget
  • Google Desktop Gadget
  • Yahoo Widget

Here is the article from Yahoo Widget Blog The Ever-Changing Widget Landscape with the comparison and the explanation between the different version of Widgets or similar products.

I agree with the blog in regards of Apple DashBoard and Vista Gadget that they are heavily depended on the OS. I can’t even try Dashboard and Vista Gadget cause I don’t have the OS (Mac OSX or Vista). With the current Windows XP, I have two options Google Gadget and Yahoo Widget anyway. But since Goolge Gadget is much less dynamic and intuitive, so my only option is Yahoo.

There are about 4000 widgets in yahoo widget gallery. That is just too many and I already wasted quite amount time browsing and testing one by one.

I hope that there is some featured articles or guides to introduce only few outstanding widgets everyweek or so.

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