PDF Editing & Creation: 50+ open source/free alternatives to Adobe Acrobat : Codswallop. Posted by nitzan on Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 Adobe Acrobat is expensive, but that doesn’t mean you have to live a life without portable documents.
What many people don’t realize is that PDF is a Federal Information Processing Standard, which means the specifications behind the format are widely published. Delicious alternatives and similar software. AlternativeTo AlternativeTo is a free service that helps you find better alternatives to the products you love and hate.
The site is made by Ola and Markus in Sweden, with a lot of help from our friends in Italy, Finland, USA and contributors from all over the world. That's right, all the lists of alternatives are crowd-sourced, and that's what makes the data powerful and relevant. 28 delicious alternatives to Delicious. Well, we've all seen the news that the single most insane idea of the year award can go to Yahoo who are apparently going to be closing Delicious.
Quite why they're not prepared to ask people to pay for access, or even to offer it to someone like the Library of Congress to take over defeats me, but clearly straightforward thinking isn't their forte else they wouldn't be taking this stupid step in the first place. So, if you want to choose a different bookmarking resource, what options are available to you? The good news is that there's quite a lot. A1 Webmarks.