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Batch PDF Merger’s interface supports drag and drop, or you can load an entire folder of PDFs. Merging is simple. Just load the PDFs into the files window, adjust the order you want them to appear in, and click merge. I noticed right away there is also a split button. The split button doesn’t separate PDFs and save them as individual files to your hard drive. Instead, it splits files within Batch PDF Merger and allows you to rearrange them....

The Problem Have you ever tried to Free Transform a text layer and noticed its bounds seem a bit unusual? Perhaps completely inaccurate? If you answered yes, you’re correct! Here’s what text layer transform bounds usually look like: If you look closer, you’ll see an unusual amount of space at the top and bottom of the line in the image. And even some to the right. This makes transformations and centering inaccurate....

Open Event Viewer in Windows In Windows 7, click the Start Menu and type: event viewer in the search field to open it. For Windows 8, you can open Event Viewer from the Power User Menu from the Desktop. Expand Windows Logs and click on Security. Now, look for event ID 4624; these are successful login events for your computer. Double-clicking on the event will open a popup with detailed information about that activity....

Have you ever wondered how some website track your visit if you have cookies disabled? Sites like the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal that are behind partial paywalls have built-in systems that track both your internet protocol (IP) address and your web browsers meta data. When used in combination this information can often isolate a single computer on a network. This meta data lets these big sites show limited previews to one person on a local network, without blocking preview access to everyone on the same IP....

All modern production software comes with some sort of collaboration tool or feature. Apple’s iWork suite available over iCloud is no exception. It doesn’t yet offer much in terms of managing document permissions, but at least its there. Apples current sharing implementation relies on unique URLs that grant both read and write access. The cloud suite is technically still in beta so things could change in the near future. Let’s take a look at it....

Getting Started with CrashPlan First, visit the CrashPlan site and download the CrashPlan free trial for your OS. CrashPlan is cross-platform. It works with Windows 32 and 64-bit versions, Linux, OS X and even Solaris. CrashPlan offers a variety of services at different prices. To find out more, check out its comparison chart. For this review, I am using the CrashPlan+ Unlimited service and provides the following features. The initial backup of your computer is quite a time consuming over the web – this is true with any online backup service....

Create an Auto-Reply in Windows 10 Mail While it can be done in the Windows 10 Mail app, the features aren’t as robust as the actual Outlook app in Office 365. Launch the Mail app and head to Settings, and click on Automatic Replies. Next, flip the Send Automatic Replies button to On and check the “Send replies outside of my organization” box. Then type in the message and info you want the recipients to know....

Start by creating your free account at DAR.fm and log into the service. You’ll begin in the Record screen, where you can search for and find your favorite radio stations and shows. DAR.fm presents a number of ways to help you, including top shows, genres and a search function. When you find the show you want, just click on it to see full details. Here I’m selecting the BBC Newshour to record....

I guess this is goodbye. Don’t worry. It’s not me — it’s you. That’s okay. I never liked you much, anyway. You always felt slow and cumbersome. In fact, I don’t even remember what you looked like, because I only used you a handful of times. Each of those times was torture. I’ve never been a serious enough photographer to invest in software like Aperture, and, luckily, along came the OS X 10....

Installation Cross-platform – Works on Linux, Mac OSX, and WindowsRequires Adobe Air 2.0 or higher Installing DestroyTwitter isn’t as conventional as your typical program, but that’s because it runs on AIR. If you don’t have Adobe AIR installed, grab it from the above link. Setup is straight-forward and easy. Once you’ve installed AIR, grab the latest download of DestroyTwitter from their official website. Installation requires extracting a zip folder and running an Adobe AIR setup file, and that’s all....

Monsters At Work Season Finale on Disney Plus Here is an exclusive look at the season finale, “It’s Laughter They’re After” episode 110: Here is more information on what you can expect from the final episode and the series: Subscribe to Disney Plus Remember that Disney Plus is your home for Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic, Pixar, and the enormous vault of all things Disney. If you aren’t a subscriber yet, it’s never too late to start....

A few weeks ago I upgraded my laptop’s hard disk to a Solid State Drive (SSD). The performance improvements have been amazing, to say the least. But, I was left over with a perfectly good HDD that was just sitting in my desk drawer going to waste. Then I realized that I never use my laptop’s DVD drive. Surely, all of that excess space wasted by the dormant DVD drive could be utilized....

I did try to… well, try it on my Feature phone… :) (you can do so too by pointing your mobile phone browser to m.fb.snaptu.com/f), but I was pushed back in an instant because my mobile operator doesn’t currently support the app. Why is this? Well, it’s because Facebook has partnerships with 14 mobile operators around the world, and these operators are offering their users free data traffic with the app over the next 90 days....

The most notable of which is controlling your Fire TV with your Alexa device. You’ll be able to activate Alexa with your voice (versus hitting the microphone button on the remote to activate it) and use commands like play, pause, rewind, skip back, jump forward, next show and others. You can also launch apps and search for TV shows and movies. To pair the devices, you need to use the Alexa app on your mobile device or the online version....

View Saved Passwords Firefox An example is when you get a new Android smartphone and need your Google Account username and password to use quite a few services. Here’s how easy it is to find the passwords you’ve saved in Firefox. First, press Alt to see the Firefox pull-down menus. Then, go to Tools, then Options. In the window that pops up, click the Security tab, then the Saved Passwords button, like I did below....

Dolphin Browser Dolphin Browser has been a go-to browser for early Android users. It provides unique features such as gesture commands and Sonar (a Siri-like feature). This browser also uses sidebars, and has a few add-ons available in the Play Store. Opera Mini Compared to its full version, Opera Mini’s focus is on speed and data compression, which is a great way to save on data charges for users who have a monthly 3G cap....

Fast.com from Netflix Just open a browser on your PC or mobile device and head to fast.com and that’s it. There is no need to click a start button or select different locations. Just go to the URL and you’ll see your download speed in a second. It calculates the result by performing a series of small downloads from Netflix servers. It also provides a link so you can get a second opinion from speedtest....

Yesterday on the Google TV Blog and site, Google announced that over the next few months they plan on giving away a total of 10,000 free Google TV devices. Before you get too excited, note this morning they already gave out 3,000 of those at the Adobe Max conference. That leaves 7,000 total left to give out. They’ve stated on the blog that 3,500 will be given out to developers that are part of the http://code....

Log in to Google+ and at the top click the More dropdown menu. Then tap or click the the single column view button under Stream Layout. That’s it. Now everything will be in a single column. Of course it’s just as easy to switch back. I actually dig the larger default layout, especially on large high pixel monitors. What do you think of the new layout of Google Plus? Leave a comment and let us know!...

Delete Your Google Search Data The company is rolling out these new changes to search for the desktop today. Android and iOS updates will follow in the form of updates in the coming weeks. You can now review and delete recent search history from your desktop browser. While on the Google search page, click on the Control your data in Google Search link under the search box. There you will see a short video that (kind of) explains how Google uses your data with your search history....