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Tekzilla Daily Tip #472: Windows 7: Secret Right-click Functions

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:37:21 GMT

Add more functionality to your right-click context menu

On today's Tekzilla Daily, Veronica shows you how to reveal more options when you right-click any file or folder.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #471: Windows 7: Revamped System Monitor Tool

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:42:26 GMT

Track your machine's resources

Can't figure out what's taking up so much processing power on your machine? Veronica shows you the ins and outs of Windows 7's improved system monitor utility.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #470: Windows 7: One-Click Screen Capture

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:41:01 GMT

Explore Windows 7's new integrated screen capture tool!

Need to troubleshoot your friends machine? Show them exactly what steps to take with Windows 7's new built-in recording tool. Veronica has all the details on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #469: Windows: A New Way to Alt-Tab in Windows 7

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:39:14 GMT

Flip through your apps

Need a more visual way to switch between open programs? Veronica shows off a cool Windows 7 feature to find your way around your applications.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #468: Windows: 4 Handy Tricks in Windows 7's UI

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:38:54 GMT

Say hello to your new operating system!

We're kicking off the release of Windows 7! Veronica shows off a few features to make your OS experience easier, more fun and more productive!

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #467: Track the Spread of the Flu

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:37:03 GMT

See how serious the flu threat is in your area

Google's charitable branch is not only helping humanity, they provide cool graphs so you can keep track of where in the world the flu is spreading.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #466: One-click Link Sharing

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:36:54 GMT

Easily send links to your friends

Are you obsessed with sharing sites across different social media networks? Veronica has a tip to make meme-spreading a cinch, no matter what browser you use, on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #465: OS X: Customize Finder's Background

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:35:00 GMT

Add some eye candy to your OS

Getting bored of your desktop? Veronica shows you how to add some personality to your Finder window with a photo or custom color on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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REST-based Integration Architecture for a Financial Business Service

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:34:26 GMT

Summary
Phillip Ghadir presents a financial application that was initially built using SOAP, WSDL, WS-*, and was later migrated to use REST, Atom, and AtomPub, explaining the decisions made, the pitfalls and the lessons learned along the way.

Bio
Phillip Ghadir, CTO and principal consultant of innoQ Deutschland GmbH, has built several systems and components for large scale, distributed, mission critical systems that are still serving continuously until now. He was involved in several projects, including a large development effort for building a Basel II- compliant rating service, where he was the lead architect.

About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community. QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #464: Google's Improved Map Places Page

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:28:59 GMT

Get more out of Google Maps with their improved places pages.

Google has improved their Places Pages, and Veronica has all the details on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #463: Windows: Manage All Your Keyboard Shortcuts

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:01:00 GMT

Keep track of your hotkeys

Do you have a keyboard shortcut for all your favorite programs? Veronica shows you how to easily manage them all on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #462: Firefox: Visualize Your Complete Browsing History

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:00:34 GMT

Display your history tree in a simple interface.

Do you prefer visuals over lists? Veronica has a new way to view your browser's history on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #461: Watermark Your Photos Online For Free

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:42:49 GMT

Keep your photos from being used without permission. Waterstamp them with a free online tool.

Tired of people stealing your photos online without giving you credit? On today's Tekzilla Daily, Veronica shows you a free web service that will stamp your pictures in a snap.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #460: Windows: One Click Monitor Shut-Off

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:10:52 GMT

Easily turn off your laptop's screen and save power.

Wish your laptop or netbook had a "monitor off" button? Now it can, and Veronica has all the details on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #459: Smart Way to Search for Videos

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:56:25 GMT

A better option for video searches

Ditch your old default video site! Veronica shows you a whole new way to find online video on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #458: Windows: Find The Last 100 Files You Modified

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:56:09 GMT

Locate recently saved files and folders

Can't remember the name of that document you just saved? Veronica shows you how to find the most recently modified files on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #457: OS X: Enable Hidden Buttons in Finder

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:03:05 GMT

Tweak Finder with additional function buttons

Add custom shortcuts to your Finder window! Find out all the details on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #456: Firefox: Keep Your Favorite Google Doodle Year-Round!

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:02:44 GMT

Choose your Google doodle

Did you fall in love with that special Google logo a few weeks ago? Now you can make it your default image and Veronica shows you how on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #455: Windows: Unlock "Unlockable"

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:35:12 GMT

Free those stubborn files once and for all

Have you ever run into an error message while trying to delete a file? On today's Tekzilla Daily, Veronica shows you a free program that will free up any file or folder that refuses to cooperate.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #454: Find Matching Images With Google

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:42:24 GMT

Narrow your image search

Can't find the picture you're looking for? Google's lab feature can help you out, and Veronica is here to give you all the details on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #453: Windows: How to Copy and Paste a File's Location

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:42:10 GMT

Easily copy your file path to paste anywhere

Have you ever needed to grab the location of your file or folder? Veronica has a tip on how to do just that on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #452: Identify Any Image Fast

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:41:49 GMT

Put a name to that puzzling photo

Do you have a picture of something you can't identify? Call upon the help of the internet and figure it out! Veronica shows you how on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #451: Firefox: Customize the Backspace Key

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:41:36 GMT

Reassign the backspace key for your browser

That backspace key can do more than just delete letters! Veronica shows you what else it's capable of on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #450: Windows: Make Custom "Save As" Shortcuts

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:41:12 GMT

Create links to make saving files easy

Does Windows give you shortcuts to folders you never use? On today's Tekzilla Daily, Veronica shows you how to take control and create links to the folders of your choosing.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #449: Search Six Degrees of Google

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:40:53 GMT

Secret Kevin Bacon Google search feature revealed

Losing interest in your favorite search engine? On today's Tekzilla Daily, Veronica shows off a hidden feature that adds some fun to your Googling and makes playing six degrees of Kevin Bacon fantabulously easy.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #448: Firefox: Secret Tab Tricks

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:40:31 GMT

Take control of your tabs

The newest release of Firefox includes some nifty tab management features. Veronica has all the details on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #447: Personalized Movie Recommendations

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:40:09 GMT

Discover films that are right for you

Can't decide on a film for tonight's movie night? On today's Tekzilla Daily, Veronica shows you a website ripe with inspiration.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #446: Windows: Split or Merge PDFs

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:39:43 GMT

Manage your PDFs

Need to combine multiple PDFs into one document? On today's Tekzilla Daily, Veronica introduces you to a tool to give you a hand on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #445: Windows: Quit Unresponsive Apps Quickly

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:39:15 GMT

Shut down that stubborn program

Show notesFed up with unresponsive programs that refuse to close? Veronica will relieve your stress with a helpful tool on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #444: Browse Websites Without Clicking "Next"

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:38:27 GMT

Read multi-page articles seamlessly

Tired of news sites breaking up your articles into 30 different pages? Veronica has a tip that will tie them all together so you can read them all at once.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #443: OS X: Maximize Windows

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:38:03 GMT

Stretch your windows to their full potential

Ex-Windows users lamenting the lack of a maximize button for OS X? Veronica has the answer on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #442: Windows: Manage Your Autoplay Options

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:37:41 GMT

Customize your default drive options

Does Windows not give you the choice you when when you plug in an external drive or insert a cd? Veronica shows you how to tweak those settings to your liking on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #441: Windows: Strip Personal Data from Photos

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:37:21 GMT

Remove metadata from your .jpgs

Want to keep all the details about your photos private? Veronica comes to your aid with a tool that does just that on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #440: Firefox: Undo Closed Windows in Firefox

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:37:03 GMT

Bring back entire windows

Lost a whole windows' worth of tabs because you hit the "close" button by accident? Veronica shows you how to restore them all on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #439: Discover The RSS Feeds VIPs Follow

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:36:42 GMT

Discover new and interesting news feeds

Looking for some new reading material? Veronica shows you how to find out what your favorite tech-celebs are reading on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #438: Firefox: Find Flickr Pages with a Plug-in

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:36:20 GMT

Easily locate Flickr pages from its raw photo

As a followup to a previous Daily tip, a viewer has made finding that Flickr photo page as simple as a right-click! Veronica has all the details on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #437: Run A Search Through Multiple Wikis

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:35:55 GMT

Find more info with a single search

Wikipedia not cutting it anymore? Veronica shows you how to search all the wikis on the web with just one search on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #436: Windows: Set Screen Resolutions for Different Users

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:35:32 GMT

Windows: Set Screen Resolutions for Different Users

Windows forces all accounts to use the same resolution.... but Veronica has found a way around it! She'll tell you all about it on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #435: Windows: Paste Text Without Formatting

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:35:06 GMT

Copy and paste clean text

Need to copy some text without all the font sizes and other formatting? Veronica has the answer on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Adobe CS: How to Create Looping Animations in Flash CS4

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:25:07 GMT

In this episode special guest Josh Margulis is back to show how to create looping animations in Flash CS4.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #434: Add Thumbnails To Any Google Search Results

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:27:22 GMT

Add visuals to your searches

Is your search results page a little too bland? Spice it up with some helpful thumbnails! Veronica has all the details on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Tekzilla #104: Snow Leopard, Make Your PC a NAS, Spotify Preview, Time Machines Sucks and Stop Data Theft: Wipe your HD.

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:26:42 GMT

With Snow Leopard officially out in stores we share our opinions on Apple's latest OS. Convert that old PC into a something useful like a NAS, FTP, or SMB file server. Learn how to securely wipe your PC's hard drives before giving it away, and find out why Time Machine is a big fat lemon.

Welcome to Tekzilla... hands on reviews of the latest tech, and how to make the most out of the gear you already own! Veronica Belmont and Patrick Norton are your hosts.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #433: Windows: Switch Default Browsers Fast

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:25:44 GMT

Change your default browser from the system tray

Do you use different web browsers on a regular basis? Veronica will show you how to create a one-click shortcut in your system tray on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #432: OS X: Run a Google Search From Anywhere

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:24:40 GMT

Start your search in any OS X application

Are you a Google fanatic? Find out how to launch a search from almost any Mac program with a single key combo on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #431: Check the Status of your Website From Anywhere

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:24:16 GMT

Keep an eye on your site's stats

Make sure your site is running smoothly with this helpful webpage. Veronica has the lowdown on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #430: Windows: Click and Drag Icons Like a Pro

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:00:55 GMT

Mouse selection tip especially for laptop users

Selecting multiple files with the mouse can be a pain, especially if you're using a trackpad. On today's Tekzilla Daily, Veronica has a tip to make your life a whole lot easier.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #429: Find a Flickr page from the .jpg's url

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:13:10 GMT

Locate Flickr photos from all over the web

Have you ever found a Flickr photo hotlinked somewhere else online? Now you can use the url to find the original Flickr page and Veronica has all the details on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Tekzilla #103: Block WoW, Video Card Picks, Free Hard Drive Backup, Double USB Bandwidth!

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:12:54 GMT

Are Shure's SRH840 Headphones as good as their Earphones? Jason Cross has graphics card reccomendations from under $100 to price is no object. Free Backup Software, Discover music with CitySounds.fm, Stop World of Warcraft Obssessions At The Router.

Welcome to Tekzilla... hands on reviews of the latest tech, and how to make the most out of the gear you already own! Veronica Belmont and Patrick Norton are your hosts.

Back up your systm RIGHT NOW, by imaging it. (Last week we talked about my epic hard drive fail... and I promised we'd start talking about strategies for backing up.) It's as simple as making a boot disk and tracking down an extra hard drive.

Free tools we prefer for making a bit for bit copy of your drive are Easeus Disk Copy for Windows and Carbon Copy Cloner for OS X. (SuperDuper! is another solid option for OS X.)

Open source options for the PC include FOG and Clonezilla. If you want the comfort of paid for tools, check out Norton Ghost and Acronis True Image Home 2009.

We spent a whole episode of Systm showing off the process of imaging your drive,Cheap and Easy Hard Drive Upgrade, it's a great way to move the contents of your current hard drive onto a bigger drive!

Free Software! This week's Freebie Download Pick is GFI Backup, Home Edition, a great tool that makes it easy to backup your data, photos, music and other critical bits with a 'wizard' based interface. Just select Backup, Restore, Sync or My Tasks and walk through the steps. You can backup folders or have GFI Backup search your drive for file types used by media, productivity and financial applications.. You can schedule regular backups, direct them to a local drive, CD or DVD disc, a network drive or, if you're skilled, an FTP server. Best of all, it's free!

Nvidia and ATI offer about a billion GPU options... if you're looking for a new video card, you'll love our interview with Jason Cross, where he picks the best cards from under $100 to money is no object, and answers your questions about what card to buy for a Home Theater PC and more. (Hint: most late model cards offer HDMI with audio passthru and full HDCP support!)

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This week's "Website We Just Can't Get Enough Of" is CitySounds.fm! It helps you see what people are listening to in cities all over the world. It's just in it's infancy, but CitySounds.fm is promising in a few different ways. For one, the design is really cool. The most popular cities are listed in order, and popularity is determined by how frequently a city's link is tweeted. (The music itself comes from SoundCloud, a music-file distribution site for artists, labels and other music professionals.) To listen, click on the name of the city you're interested in, and a dropdown of recent tracks appears. Clicking to a cities page, you can see the top genres, shuffle the top tracks, and see what Twitter users have posted about the city. Techno seems to be the predominant genre on the site so far, but I'm sure as more users start adding content the genres will broaden. Check it out!

Shure recently released a line of headphones, and Veronica's pretty excited for them since she's such a big fan of their in-ear buds, like the SE530's (which are her precious babies). The headphones are under their pro-audio line, and they're marketing them towards musicians, DJs, or anyone else in need of good monitoring headphones that aren't going to break the bank. How good do the $200 : Shure SRH840's Professinoal Monitoring Headphones sound? Watch the show to find out!

Somebody in your house spending too much time on WoW? James is looking to block World of Warcraft on his router so his (WoW obsessed) friend can't play when he comes over. (Who wants somebody sitting in a corner playing WoW for 18 hours straight?) Veronica's got the details on the critical port you need to close to block WoW, and we discuss how to do it... and whether or not it's time for an intervention.

What's the maximum tranfer rate for USB 2.0? Can you double your bandwidth? Carl has 12 USB devices connected to his laptop, and another six he wants to connect when he gets another hub or card for the desktop he's moving to. That's a lot of USB devices, Carl, no wonder you're looking to improve performance!

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #428: Firefox: Delete Evidence of Visited Sites

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:11:28 GMT

Private browsing after the fact

Want to remove one particular website from your history without clearing the whole thing? It's easy and Veronica shows you how on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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Tekzilla Daily Tip #427: Turn PDFs into Word Docs Fast

Dmytro Shteflyuk — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:11:01 GMT

Convert PDFs for easy editing

Do you need to edit your PDFs but don't want to lose the formatting? Veronica has a free solution on today's Tekzilla Daily.

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