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BETA. Am I Last To Find Out You Can Circumvent PDF Usage Restrictions. I expect many of you already were aware of this, but I can imagine at least some of you aren’t yet, so here goes: apparently you can lift the usage restrictions from Adobe PDF files by simply forwarding them as attachments to your Gmail account and opening them in HTML mode right from your inbox. That way, you can copy whatever the ‘secured’ PDF contains to a text editing program and do whatever you want with it. For your reference: PDFs (Portable Document Format) can be encrypted so that a password is needed to view or edit its content, and they can also contain embedded DRM restrictions that provide further controls that limit copying, editing or printing.

Turns out the “View in HTML” feature in Gmail can display an HTML version of the encrypted file, stripping out the restrictions. Part of the layout might be lost in the process, but the text can easily be extracted with a simple copy/paste command. In case the original PDF file had printing restrictions, those are stripped as well. 9 Must-Try Adobe AIR Apps for Better Productivity. Elliott Kosmicki is the founder of GoodPlum.com, a productivity and personal development blog for home business owners. You can also follow Elliott on Twitter. Adobe AIR came along and changed the application world overnight. Developers could now use their web app knowledge and translate that to an application that ran on a PC, Mac or Linux desktop. For users, such as myself, we all of the sudden had the ability to find desktop apps that we loved, and use them across all of our systems in the exact same way. With this new age of "application neutrality," I wanted to take a brief look into some Adobe AIR apps you have to at least try. 1.

For the business owner, blogger, or developer, Twitter has become a must-use tool to maintain a healthy network and customer base. View your feed, all replies, trends, and even searches in just a single window! Tip: Instead of using the standard reply section in TweetDeck, setup a search for variations of your username, full name, business name, etc. 2. 20+ Great Adobe AIR Apps for Photos & Videos. Adobe AIR is proving more and more useful all of the time. A slew of tools are targeted towards designers and developers, but AIR apps can also be used for photo and video enthusiasts.

Whether it be for video editing, simple playback, or organizing and browsing your photos, there seems to be an application to suit everyone's needs. Take a look through the 20+ apps we've gathered for you, and you are sure to find something useful. What are some of your favorite Adobe AIR apps for working with photos and videos? Photo Albelli Photo Book Creator - Assists you in creating photo books from images on your hard drive or from online resources such as Flickr, Smugmug, Photobucket and Picasa. CleVR Stitcher - An easy way of joining photos into a panorama by just dropping in all of the required photos.

DestroyFlickr - DestroyFlickr is all about finding other ways to view Flickr photos that emphasize the photos, and not what is around them. Video Miscellaneous. Adobe PDF Guide: How to Do Everything with PDF Files. This PDF guide explains how you can create PDF files, merge multiple PDF files, save web pages as PDFs, file forms online, add e-signatures and more. Adobe PDF is probably the best format for sharing documents as they are preserve the formatting, the documents are read-only and also because most computers, mobile phones and ebook readers can open PDF files. Here you’ll learn how to do just about everything with PDF documents without Adobe Acrobat. You can edit PDF files, combine multiple files as one, add signature images to PDF pages, fill PDF forms online, extract individual pages from PDFs, add clickable links to existing PDF documents and so much more.

Let’s get started. Q: First things first – How do I create PDF documents on my computer without Adobe Acrobat? A: You can download and install a virtual PDF printer like Nitro Reader on your computer. Q: I like the cloud and don’t want to install software just for converting a bunch of documents to PDFs. A: Sure. Q: Can I edit PDF files?