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PDF Converter Professional 7 – A First Look

January 2, 2012 By terry

PDF Converter Professional 7 – A First Look

Program: PDF Converter Professional 7.0
Publisher: Nuance Communications, Inc.
License: Commercial
Price: List $99. Price on Apr. 3, 2011 at Amazon: $48.59
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Every once in a while, a program that’s designed for business use is so helpful and priced so reasonably that it’s useful for home users, too. That’s the case with PDF Converter Professional 7. I quickly bought my own personal copy.

I use it at the office to convert PDF documents into Word documents so that I can do redline edits ("Track Changes") to them.

I had been using Adobe Acrobat Professional 8 for this purpose until recently. However, for some reason, Adobe Acrobat Pro was starting to convert documents using Word’s text boxes. If you haven’t ever dealt with them, text boxes are some of the most frustrating and useless functions in Word, at least in my opinion.

I found that some other people were using PDF Converter Professional, so I decided to give it a try.

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A Look at Acronis True Image Home 2012

October 19, 2011 By terry

Acronis has released their latest version of their hard drive imaging backup program, Acronis True Image Home 2012 (ATIH 2012). I wasted no time in purchasing my new copies. Although I could have upgraded at a significant discount (40%), I preferred to purchase new licenses for ATIH 2012, so that I had copies for additional computers.

The new version has some neat new features — I’d read about the new features, but, even then, I really didn’t realize their impact until I started to use the new program.

Of course, there are also the bug fixes and optimizations that make existing functions better -— like the new function for setting “credentials” (user ID and password) to be used when backing up to a network drive. The function was there before, but now it’s in the right place, is much more obvious, and it worked smoothly. Yes!

New features include the ability to synchronize files and folders across multiple computers, multiple hard drives, or even to flash drives. Obviously you wouldn’t do this for the entire hard drive, but for critical files, it should be a nice feature.

The Non-Stop Backup function seems a lot friendlier now. It will make backups of changed files every five minutes. With some common programs like Outlook, it will back up the changes in the .PST file rather than the .PST file itself (which might be huge). However, the key is that you’re…

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