Liberate your PDF from password

You have a PDF file from which you want to copy some text, extract picture or graph. Or simply you want to take printout. But alas! it is password protected and you cannot do it. There are some tolls available which will help you to remove password and security restrictions from the PDF file. However, you can do it online as well using the site FreeMyPDF.com.

 

Use this site to remove passwords and restrictions (such as printing, copying text, etc.) from PDFs. Upload the file to this site. Please note that maximum limit is 7 MB. And once uploaded click on the button "Do It!" to unlock the file. Once the password is removed you will get a download dialog box, where you can save the unlocked PDF. I have come across protected PDF file few years back and at that time in order to take out printout, I had done this in LINUX. This is also another alternate you can try out.

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Annotate, Comment add drawing and more in PDF file with free PDF-XCHANGE VIEWER

If you work with PDF files then you must have realized that at some point of time you need to annotate, add comments, highlight text etc. The commonly used Adobe Reader which is de facto PDF reader does not let you do so. It is good for viewing PDF files (slow when you scroll the pages), However, you can't type or make annotations in the PDF file -those are the features of Adobe's expensive Acrobat software.

I've spent a lot of time looking for a freeware PDF editor but all were trial ware which left watermarks in the 'free' period. I looked for Open Source but they seem to be concentrating more on Linux. 

The Sun PDF Import Extension for OpenOffice.org can import and edit PDF's using OOo's Draw application. However the caveats:  This is a "simple" editor, that is, it can't do everything.The resulting PDF's are significantly larger. I have used it in multiple platform and it works as advertised and it is best for one pagers, fidgety but manageable.

PDF-XCHANGE VIEWER Free has plenty of editing tools that might do what you want: 

• Type new text onto document and move it anywhere. 
• Create text boxes for paragraph text and move them anywhere. 
• Add rectangles, circles, polygons and clouds anywhere onto document and move them anywhere. 
• All shapes and drawings can be filled with color and/or outlined (which means you can erase original text and objects by covering them with a shape filled with background color, then typing over it). 
• Paste and move text onto document. 
• Paste, resize and move images onto document. 
• Text in Callout box and move it anywhere. 
• Highlight any text on document. 
• Strikeout any text on document. 
• Underline any text on document. 
• Change font, size and color of typed (not pasted) text. 
• Add arrows anywhere on document and move them anywhere. 
• Add lines anywhere on document and move them anywhere. 
• Add sticky note comments and move them anywhere. 
• Add freeform drawings (and erase them), and move them anywhere. 
• Link rectangles. 
• Calculate distance tool. 
• Area measurement tool.

Please do send me your comments about this tool.

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Easy file synchronization with FreeFileSync

If you you work between multiple computers then you must have realized the difficulty of synchronization of files. I have used Windows Briefcase, Microsoft SyncToy and some other tools as well. However, I am quite impressed with FreeFileSynch. It is a small freeware open source program of 1.93 MB. It is optimized for highest performance and usability without restricted or overloaded UI interfaces. And it does more than what it is meant for. If you want to use the portable (no install version) then it is also available. Also, you can add this to your portable apps collection for your USB Drive.

FreeFileSynch can compare the file by their content, folder size or date. It synchronizes files and sub folders and can be used for mirroring files. If you frequently do same kind of synchronization or mirroring regularly then you you can save the sessions aka configurations to do the jobs in future. You can download the software from the Sourceforge site.

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Adjust Screen Resolution Automatically for individual PC user with Carroll

I share my computer with other family members; and the first thing I do when I login to my system is to adjust the screen resolution. All of us have different preferences. And this frequent adjustment of screen resolutions has screwed up the driver so many times.

You must agree that the monitor shows good result in its native resolution. However, some user may want to work on 800*600 resolution and other may want to work on maximum possible resolution when they work on Excel Sheet. Carroll is a small utility which automatically adjust the screen resolution of each user as soon as they login. It is a small utility (414 KB) and uses less than 4 MB of RAM. Believe me it will save you from the routine drudgery of adjusting resolution. You may download it from the site.

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Boost your IE speed by ten times with Google Chrome Frame

You are so used to IE that you don’t want to try other web browsers, and you are tired of the Internet Explorer. You can boost the speed by ten times of IE by using Chrome Frame plug-in for Internet Explorer. It is an open source plug-in that brings HTML5 and other open web technologies to Internet Explorer. Tests conducted on Google Chrome Frame has vouched that this plug-in boost the java script rendering capability of IE8 by 9.6 times than IE8 own rendering engine.

 

What Chrome Frame does is that it lets IE utilize the Google Chrome WebKit rendering engine and V8 JavaScript engine. These rendering engines boost the Internet Explorer rendering capability. Now the natural question is why you need this plug-in? Recent JavaScript performance improvements and the emergence of HTML5 have enabled web applications to do things that could previously only be done by desktop software. One challenge developers face in using these new technologies is that they are not yet supported by Internet Explorer. This plug-in will help to run new web applications like Google Wave etc. smoothly in your browser which was not otherwise possible in IE with their native rendering engine. And as a bonus you get the speed as well. The Chrome Frame plug-in works with IE6, IE7 or IE8 on Windows XP and Windows Vista.

The plug-in is pretty lightweight around 500K. But it will then download around 10 MB of data on your machine. You may download it from Google site.

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UltraSurf – browse anonymously and access internet behind firewalls

In the recent days we have noticed that people are more inclined towards anonymous browsing just to check their friend's social network contacts and all. Also they want to surf by defying the corporate firewall as well. They use several tools but among all UltraSurf is the one that is used widely in China to bypass governmental censorship . For the one who do not know much about UltraSurf, I will briefly explain it a bit. 

UltraSurf allows you to overcome the censorship and blockage on the Internet. You can browse any website freely, so as to obtain true information from the free world. UltraSurf also protects Internet privacy with anonymous surfing and browsing, hide IP addresses and locations, clean browsing history, cookies & more. Even it works great with VPNs. It is a tiny download of 400 KB. Download it and double click on it and it is installed. First time it takes 5-20 seconds to configure itself automatically. It scans the firewall and opens configured internet explorer for you. Now you can surf all blocked websites. Once any user uses it, he/she tends to get hooked to it due to its smart features and ease of access.

Even though it is a good tool to overcome the censorship of the internet at our work place, there are some hidden truth behind it as well. We found significant malware behavior, even mismatched and self-signed certificates and preventing them (user) from seeing a popup about it. Ultrasurf is designed to be a free http proxy tool, and it is somewhat, however this is a cover for it to be a virus / malware that is nearly stealth and undetectable to normal virus scanners because of it's heuristic avoidance and encrypted payloads.

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Search Subtitles of Movies easily with - Sublight

We at TechCorrespondent are very lazy and prefer watching good movies on weekends at home; instead of going outside. We used to spend hours for searching subtitles of movies other than English and Hindi. But now the process is automatic and fast thanks to the utility Sublight.

Sublight is small (2.07 MB) freeware windows utility that automates the task of searching and downloading subtitles for you. It is so simple to operate that even a novice user can use it without going through the help files. Along with installation help file is also installed which will let you know the step by step method to use the application ( who has that much of time... I directly started using the application :) Prem).

The application is currently available in ten languages (Arabic, English, French, German, Macedonian, Norwegian, Portuguese [Brazil], Serbian, Slovenian and Spanish) and it supports whopping 46 subtitles language.

Some of the features of Sublight are listed below.

1. Auto and manual subtitle search.
2. Batch download of subtitles for an entire folder of videos.
3. Preview subtitles before download.
4. Automatic integration with popular media players like VLC Media Player, Windows Media Player, KM Player etc.
5. Automatic integration with windows explorer (optional).
6. Plugin framework for searching subtitles from other sources (plugin for Podnapisi.NET database is included).
7. Support for OpenSubtitles.org and Podnapisi.NET database.
8. Automatic updates.
9. Publish your own subtitles and edit the one you download.
10. Integrated command line tool.

The plugins of Sublight and its codes are available at Google Code site. Installation of plugin is fairly easy. Download the compiled code from the Google Code site and copy it to your "%program files%\Sublight\Plugins" directory and restart Sublight. Then click tab "Settings", select option "Subtitles from other sources" on left and set checkboxes on right. When you are done click button "Save and apply changes".

How to download subtitles for all movies at once?

Step 1: right click on folder and select "Batch subtitle download..."

Step 2: click "Run SublightCmd"

Step 3: enter your Sublight password and wait until download is completed

Step 4: now you can enjoy your movies with subtitles

So, what you are waiting for? Download subtitles of the movie and spend your evening watching your favorite movie with subtitles; like what we have planned to do after posting this.

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