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View PDF files in Windows 7 Explorer with PDF Preview

Windows Explorer can display preview of certain types of files, such as images, videos, and text, on thumbnails and the preview pane. PDF Preview is a free software that adds this functionality for PDF files. PDF Preview  allows Windows 7 users to take advantage of the PDF preview functionality to view PDF documents without needing to open them. This free PDF preview software installs PDF Preview add-in for Windows Explorer, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Outlook, and automatically configures itself to preview a PDF file in the Preview pane of Windows Explorer or in the Reading pane in Outlook 2007, 2010, and 2012. The first PDF page is shrunk as a thumbnail, and you can zoom in if you double-click on the thumbnail. Bundled along with PDF Preview is also a light-weight yet powerful PDF viewer/reader. The viewer is only 927KB in size and opens even large PDF files in a jiffy. The PDF Viewer supports multiple page layout, zoom-in and zoom-out, page rotation, free pannin

How to Embed RSS Feeds into HTML Web Pages – The Easy Way

Q. Yugalkishore is looking for a simple solution to help him embed RSS feeds from Reuters website into his HTML web pages . A. While there are tons of scripts that convert RSS feeds into Javascript*, I recommend using Google Gadget Creator for adding feeds to web pages – it’s easy as well as customizable. *If you are looking for a non-Javascript solution, get one of these  Flash based RSS widgets  from Yourminis or WidgetBox. Step 1:  Copy the URL of that RSS feed to the clipboard (make sure you copy the location of the feed, not the website). Step 2:  Append the feed URL to this string- http://gmodules.com/ig/creator?url= Confused ? Let me illustrate that with a quick example. Say the RSS feed address is http://feeds.labnol.org/labnol, then our string becomes: http://gmodules.com/ig/creator?url=http://feeds.labnol.org/labnol Step 3:  Open this new link in your web browser, adjust the dimensions of the gadget, change the border color and finally click "Get t

Remove Malicious Programs with ESET Rogue Application Remover

Antivirus software vendor ESET has just released a new malware scanner designed to detect and remove different types of rogue applications from your computer.  Rogue applications  are those programs that are malicious in nature but pretend to be harmless or even useful, such as fake anti virus programs (that deceives unsuspecting users into paying for fake or simulated removal of malware), and scareware (software products that produce frivolous and alarming warnings or threat notices for fictitious or useless commercial firewall and registry cleaner software). Aside from detecting and cleaning rogue software,  ESET Rogue Application Remover  is also capable of reverting changes made by the rogue applications in Windows registry. By design, ERAR focuses mostly on rogue applications that affect the operating system in a negative way and that are difficult to remove by our products. ESET Rogue Application Remover, however, should not be considered a substitute for regular antivirus a