Want to make Adobe Reader a better ebook reader?  There are a wide variety of ebooks available in PDF format, including the free Microsoft Press ebooks I mention regularly here, and Adobe Reader is the de facto standard PDF reader.  In general, Adobe Reader works great for reading PDF ebooks, but here are a few tips to help make it an even better ebook reader. Keep Reading Where You Left Off Have you ever read several chapters of a PDF...

Multitasking is, odd as it seems, one of the largest debates in the tech industry in 2010.  Apple’s new iPad, along with the iPhone and iPod Touch, do not support multitasking except for some select bundled apps.  On a phone, this is much less of a limitation, but with the iPad being considered as a computer/laptop/netbook replacement, multitasking is much more of a concern. Multitasking has been dismissed as a power-user feature that...

Time flies when you’re having fun, but it has this bad habit of flying no matter what’s happening.  2010 is already fleeting by, and although I haven’t been writing much here I definitely haven’t stopped writing .  I’ve been writing almost every day at How-to Geek, and here are my latest articles there for Techinch readers (oldest articles first … if you want the absolute latest articles, read on ): The Windows...

Mobile devices have become the most interesting sector of computing in recent years.  The iPhone has brought smartphones to the masses, and now everyone around the world expects their phone to be as fast and capable.  Microsoft was an early leader in the mobile devices market with Windows Mobile, which has powered millions of PDAs and phones from numerous manufacturers around the globe.  However, innovation lagged in recent years, and...

During this week’s MIX ‘10 conference, Microsoft unveiled a preview version of Internet Explorer 9, the latest in a long line of IE versions dating back to 1995.  Although this test version wouldn’t work as your standard main browser, it is still an exciting look at the future of web browsing on Windows.  Keep reading for more information and a quick overview of installing and running the Internet Explorer 9 Platform...