Foxit Reader is one of the most popular alternates to Adobe Reader, and users around the world have chosen to use it as their default PDF reader on Windows, Linux, and a variety of mobile devices.  Today the latest version, Foxit Reader 4.0, is being released, so here’s our look at the new features. Foxit Reader has always been a great PDF reader, since it’s lightweight (using under 10Mb of ram when running without a PDF open), fast,...

The latest and greatest version of WordPress, the software that powers Techinch and many other blogs and websites around the ‘net, was just released.  WordPress 3.0 brings some major new features and style to the platform, and I’m excited to say that Techinch.com was updated to the final release version only minutes after it was released.  The upgrade went smoothly, and only took a couple minutes.  If you’d like to...

Office 2010 has just been released to the public, and many of us are excitedly upgrading to the latest version (especially students, who happen to get a really good deal ).  But what exactly does Office 2010 offer users?  Users of Office 2003 and earlier will notice major changes with the ribbon interface, but if you’ve already been using Office 2007 this won’t feel new.  So here are some quick videos from Microsoft...

Being a college student can be awful at times … between homework and rising tuition costs, it seems like you never get a break.  But guess what?  There are still some great advantages to being a student, and one of the biggest is the discounts you can get on software.  Microsoft gives very generous discounts to students on their most popular products, and even gives away their developer tools with the Dreamspark program.  College...

Cloud computing has taken the world by storm.  From the newly released Microsoft Office Web Apps and the popular Google Apps to collaboration tools such as Dropbox and Backpack from 37signals, more and more of us are using online applications and storing more data in the “cloud” every day.  But with our data scattered around between various services, we still keep large amounts of data on our computers.  Favorite mp3s, irreplaceable...