Would you like some free tech eBooks to read?  O’Reilly Press is one of the world’s largest tech publishers, and today the majority of their books are available for purchase as DRM-free eBooks in PDF, mobi, epub, and Android app formats.  Their eBooks are often substantially cheaper than the print books, but still often cost between $9 and $30.  If you’d like some free books to read, though, O’Reilly has some that...

Want to design standards-compliant websites, beautiful modern Windows applications, or even create beautiful vector icons and graphics?  Expression Studio 4 is a nice suite of applications from Microsoft that lets you do all this and more, and it shows that Microsoft has been paying much more attention to design and standards compliance in the last several years.  Creative Suite Web may offer similar features and more, but it is still...

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,...

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...

It’s been a busy week between finals at Florida Tech and a major problem with an article I wrote on running XP Mode in Virtual Box, so here’s your chance to catch up my How-to Geek articles if you’ve been waiting for me to post them here. Outlook: I wrote two articles about my favorite plugins for Outlook: Forgotten Attachment Detector and the Drop.io plugin. Never Forget to Send an Email Attachment in Outlook Send up to 100MB...