Create PDF Files the Easy Way

I ever mentioned about several ways of creating PDFs for free, either by standalone application or online conversion. Today, I'm going to teach you a very simple and fast way to create PDF using doPDF.

Why doPDF?

• It's FREE for both personal and commercial use.
• Light weight, only 1.42MB.
• Able to convert Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint documents or your emails and favorite web sites to PDF.

Creating a PDF using doPDF is as easy as ABC. Read on to find out how.

The Photoshop Anthology FREE E-book

Do you need some Photoshop solutions? Are you losing inspiration in creating your own good looking designs for your blog / website or for any other desktop publishing purposes?

SitePoint is currently giving away a FREE Photoshop e-book in PDF form namely, The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques. It consists of 278 pages in full color with 9 big chapters available. It is a good tutorial for beginners. Covering topics from the basic usage of the Photoshop components to basic skills on creating web interface like buttons and backgrounds. Also on photo color adjustment and manipulation, concept of designing a website, as well as advance technique like creating watermark and many more...

10 XP Style Wallpapers

The default Windows XP Blue Luna theme uses the color combination of blue and green, giving us a soothing feel close to the nature. The theme comes with the default wallpaper named Bliss.

For nature fans, this wallpaper can be good enough. But we can easily get bored with the same wallpaper all the time. Today, I want to share some "XP Style" nature theme wallpapers with all of you.

Instead of using the old default Bliss wallpaper, you can try some new ones like these:

Here is a collection of 10 XP Style wallpapers. Most are suitable for 1024 x 768 resolutions. Now you can always get a new look for your desktop. :)

Download 10 XP Style wallpapers now.

Installing Canon PIXMA iP1880 in Ubuntu Linux

Not every hardware comes with driver that support other OS, especially Linux. If you are running Ubuntu Linux and going to connect it to a Canon PIXMA iP1880 printer, then good news to you as Canon does provide drivers for Linux.

This post is a guide for those who want to install Canon PIXMA iP1880 driver to Ubuntu Linux. The following method is being tested and proved working in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04 (earlier versions are not working).

Canon PIXMA iP1880

foobar2000

Are you a Windows user? What media player do you use to play audio tracks? The default Windows Media Player is good enough for you to playback audio tracks but it consumes more resource, especially the latest Windows Media Player 11. I remember many years ago, WInamp is a very popular software to play mp3s. However, that is not really light-weight enough.

Introducing foobar2000 for your audio listening needs.

foobar2000 is a freeware audio player for Windows. It has the following features:

Crunchyroll: Your Asian Media Channel

YouTube is a great video sharing community. However, due to copyright issues, a lot of video uploaded will not be available after some time. I used to watch some anime episodes from YouTube. But right after it was sold to Google, they have really enforced the policies.

We are still hunger for more free media content. If you want to watch Chinese / Japanese / Korean dramas, listen to Asian music for FREE, Crunchyroll is what you need.

It's a streaming online video community that shares content like anime, drama, game trailers, music video and many more. Read to find out more...