Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

It’s winter for us in the United States– that means more inside activities. For us, it means more reading. I have a stack of books that I’ve ordered from the library, but there are several books that I desire to read that my library does not carry (I like history books, especially ancient civilizations and [...]

PDF-XChange ViewerThis is another quality PDF viewer I’ve found. As I have said before, I can’t stand that bloatware Adobe Acrobat. I am very happy with my Foxit Reader. PDF-XChange Viewer claims it is more functional than Foxit, but I really didn’t notice much difference. Nonetheless, it is another alternative PDF viewer, and for that [...]

In Desktop Utilities, Part 1, I quickly breezed through some of my favorite programs for everyday computing, and offered a review and a link. In this post, I’m continuing the saga. 1. AdFree 3.2.This is a teent-tiny little program that takes charge of your HOSTS file. If you go to the website, you’ll see that [...]

It’s time has come. Finally! A worthy PDF reader has replaced Adobe Acrobat! I can’t rave enough about Foxit PDF Reader. It’s light, it’s easy, it doesn’t track my every online move, and–most importantly– it doesn’t make my computer crash when I start it up (unlike other PDF readers, ahem). For the novice, it is [...]