How to Edit a PDF on Windows

PDF-XChange Editor

If you have a PDF and you want to edit it you can use PDF-XChange Editor which is one of the best programs around.  

Features

• View PDF pages and files
• Very fast to open files, no long loading times
• Edit any text in any PDF
• Convert scanned PDFs to text
• Add comments, annotations and markup  
• Type directly on any PDF page
• Export PDFs to many image formats
• Encrypt PDF files with a password
• Compress PDFs to a smaller size (pro version only)
• Edit paths and images (pro version only)
• Combine PDFs (pro version only)
• Move, add, delete, or crop pages (pro version only)
• Create PDF files from text or RTF (pro version only)
• Add digital signatures (pro version only)

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Tips to Reduce Mobile Data Usage

Only download email attachments over Wi-Fi : 

Letting your email application automatically download attachments can quick kill your data. And in most phones you have the ability to disable this function in your email app’s Settings section.

Install a data compression utility : 

This will route your data through a third-party server and send it to you in a compressed form. You can ind some apps that will help you to realize that such as Opera Max and Onavo Extend, these apps will work on all the applications installed on your phone.

Restrict data usage for tethered devices :

If you always use your phone as a hotspot to be able to have internet access on other 

devices, this will quickly kill your mobile data. And that’s why there is some solutions for

this problem such as applications that will stop data upload and download for 

all apps except those you have whitelisted. This means no automatic updates, no data 

syncing while you’re tethered.

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How to Edit PDF Documents on Linux

Master PDF Editor

Master PDF Editor contain all the features you can ever need to edit your PDF and here is what you can do with it :

• Edit PDF text, images and pages with full editing features
• Create new PDF or edit existing ones.
• Add and/or edit bookmarks in PDF files.
• Encrypt and/or protect PDF files using 128 bit encryption.
• Convert XPS files into PDF.
• Add PDF controls (like buttons, checkboxes, lists, etc.) into your PDFs.
• Import/export PDF pages into common graphical formats including BMP, JPG, PNG, and TIFF.
• Split and merge PDF files.
• JavaScript support.
• Dynamic XFA form support.
• Validation Forms and Calculate Values.
• Adding a digital signature and Signing PDF Documents.
• Fast and simple PDF forms fill out.
• Changing font attributes (size, family, color etc).

PDF Studio

PDF Studio is one of the best. It contains all the features that you may need. There is no big difference between it and Master PDF Editor, but the only problem in it that it’s not for free.

PDF Studio Standard

Features in PDF Studio Standard

·         Create PDFs

·         Scan-To-PDF

·         Annotate and Markup PDFs

·         Fill In & Save PDF Forms

·         Secure Documents

·         Append / Delete Pages

·         Apply Watermarks, Headers, Footers

·         Create Bookmarks / Table of Contents

·         Loupe, Pan & Zoom, Rulers, etc…

PDF Studio Pro

All Features of PDF Studio Standard, Plus…

·         Interactive Form Designer

·         OCR (Text Recognition)

·         Content Editing

·         Permanent Redaction

·         Compare PDFs

·         Optimize PDFs

·         Digitally Sign PDFs

·         Advanced PDF Splitting & Merging

·         Batch Process Multiple PDFs

·         Precision Measuring Tools

·         PDF/A Validation / Conversion

 Scribus    

 

If your needs are more visual-oriented rather than simple text, then you can use Scribus.

Scribus is open-source, it includes brochures, newsletters, and books. It’s not just a PDF 

based editor, but you can use it also for layout work and can export to PDF.

Scribus can import files that were created in other desktop publishing formats, such as 

Adobe InDesign and Microsoft Publisher, as well as XPS.

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How to Disable Automatic Adding Shortcuts to the Home Screen While installing Apps in Android

Every time you install a new application from Google Play Store it adds automatically a shortcut in your Home Screen.

If you don’t want that this happens every time, you can Disable this functionality.

Click on the Google Play Store

Click on the Menu Button in the upper-left corner, then click on Settings

In the General section uncheck the box of “Add icon to Home Screen”

Now no more shortcuts in your Home Screen, every time you will install a new application you will find it the App Drawer.

Any time you change your mind you know where to go back and to check which box.

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How to Perform A Clean Boot

A clean boot is performed to start Windows by using a minimal set of drivers and startup programs. This helps eliminate software conflicts that occur when you install a program or an update or when you run a program in Windows.

You may also troubleshoot or determine what conflict is causing the problem by performing a Clean boot.

For example I performed the Clean Boot because my laptop started to shut down all of a sudden so I did this to know from where I have the problem.

So if you wanna perform this you need to follow these 5 steps: 

 So first of all search msconfig or just enter Ctrl + r and write in it as showed bellow 

Then go to the Services tab and check the box of “Hide all Microsoft services” the click on Disable all

Go to the Startup tab and click on Open Task Manager

Then Disable all the items that appear to you in the Startup tab

And finally after finishing close the Task Manager then click Ok and it will ask you whether you want to restart the laptop now or not, so click on Restart

I hope this will help you to improve the performance of your laptop.

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How to Stop the Automatic Update to Windows 10 and Banish the Update notification

Windows Automatically activates the Update which allows them to download Windows 10 without your consent and it takes almost 3 GB from your disk just so your laptop is ready in case you wanted to upgrade. 

That’s why if you’re on Windows 8 or 7 and want to stop your Windows from the automatic update to Windows 10 you need to follow these steps to disable it:

First Method:

You can download this freeware GWX Control Panel which is very simple and by just a click on Disable ‘Get Windows 10’ App it’s gonna make you get rid of of the Get Windows 10 icon that appears non-stop on your laptop.

And again with a simple click on Disable Operating System Upgrades in Windows Update it’s gonna disable the automatic update and the download of the system on your machine without you knowing about it.

Second Method:

Never10 is a simple tool that has a button that switches off all of Microsoft’s attempts to make you upgrade to Windows 10. You can enable or disable the upgrade with a single click.

If you install Never10 and later you decide that you want to upgrade, simply turn it off and run the update.

Microsoft is trying to push Windows 10 through Windows update, Never10 will run a check to make sure that your Windows Updates are current. If not, the app will install these updates for you and block Windows 10 in the process.                         

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How to Delete your Microsoft Account from Windows

If you just want to delete your Microsoft Account for some personal reasons or you just don’t want to give the chance to the company to use your data without your consent or to collect information, this article will show you how to do that in some simple steps:

Go to Settings 

Then click on Accounts

Once here, you can find the option to remove the Account at the bottom, click on it and approve when it askes you wether you're sure or not.

Note: If you’re still connected with the account you won’t be able to remove it.

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How to Speed Up your Slow Ubuntu PC

Startup Applications

The first thing to do is to manage the startup applications and just to let the most important once to launch when you boot your laptop.

By disabling the unnecessary once you free up some space of the RAM and you allow our laptop to launch faster.

To do so you just need to open the Dash and type “startup”.

This will open up the Startup Applications utility where you can manage all the applications you have. If you can’t find all the applications that’s cause Ubuntu hides most of the system’s default autostart entries. To show them, run this command in your terminal:

Sudo sed –i ‘s/NoDisplay=true/NoDisplay=false/g’/etc/xdg/autostart/*.descktop

Preload

You can also install Preload which is a daemon. This is a background service that keeps track of the most applications you use on your computer and load them into the memory as soon as you boot your laptop without launching them to make it faster for you in case you opened one of them it launches so fast.

To install Preload on your Ubuntu laptop, run this command in your terminal:

Sudo apt-get install preload

Lighter Desktop Environment

You can also change your desktop to a lighter one that the default desktop of Ubuntu. There are many others that much more lighter for exemple ou can use XFCE, LXDE, Openbox, Xmonad.

Swappiness

The SWAP partition is simply extra space that the system can use if the RAM is full, or if something has been sitting in RAM for a long time but isn’t being used. The system also dumps the contents of the RAM into the SWAP partition when you hibernate your system.

The swappiness value is between 0 and 100 which is:

·         0: The kernel will avoid swapping process out of physical memory and onto the swap partition for as long as possible.

·         100: The kernel will aggressively swap processes.

You can change the swappiness to 10 and to do so you need to open the terminal and write this command:

sudo bash -c "echo 'vm.swappiness = 10' >> /etc/sysctl.conf"

This will change the swappiness in the file sysctl.conf

But if you don’t want to change it once for all you can change it temporarily until the next restart of your laptop with this command:

Sudo sysctl vm.swappiness=10

Clean unneeded files

Finally, you have to clean up some unneeded files and to do so you can use Ubuntu Tweak. It’s a tool that’s gonna delete only the files not needed without touching any file you may need.

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Disable Microsoft Edge Browser in Windows 10

So this article is about Microsoft Edge, many people are not used on using this new application.

So this browser is a core component in windows environment and it can’t be uninstalled or removed but there is a solution if it interests you which is blocking it.

Edge Blocker is a tool that allows you to block or unblock the browser. When it’s blocked even by trying to launch the browser it won’t work.

And with administrator privilege by activating this blocker it will work on all the system and includes all the users.

   Download

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