Secure your PC software

Do you have all your updates for Windows, IE and other software programs on automatic update? You should. Hackers these days like to latch onto any bugged software program. The updates should fix these bugs. We hope.

The Secunia Personal Software Inspector, available as a free download, scans your installed software to let you know which out-of-date programs might be making your PC unsafe, but it doesn’t stop there. For each old program it finds, it offers quick and easy action buttons such as one labeled Download Solution, which retrieves the latest software patch without you even having to open a browser.

Create PDF files without Acrobat

 I happen to have a copy of Acrobat which allows me to ‘save’ a Word document to a PDF file. But if you haven’t got this software, then there are various ways to do the same thing. Here is one:

doPDF6.0 installs itself as a virtual PDF printer driver so after a successful installation will appear in your Printers and Faxes list. To convert to PDF, you just have to print the document to the doPDF free pdf converter. Open a document (with Microsoft Word, WordPad, NotePad or any other software), choose Print and select doPDF. It will ask you where to save the PDF file and when finished, the PDF file will be automatically opened in your default PDF viewer.

I get many visitors to my site about making ebooks into PDF files and on that page I list more ways in which you can create PDF Files