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09/16/202102/02/2025

How to Remove Adobe Acrobat Plugins for MS Office

I wish I didn’t even have to have Adobe Acrobat installed on my computer. I already have Preview for the Mac so I usually don’t need it. But every once in a while someone sends me a file with a .pdf… Read the rest

11/29/201009/22/2013

How to Install Adobe Reader X Safely on Windows

This is a followup to my previous posting How to Install Adobe Reader X Safely on Mac OS X. The step for disabling JavaScript is virtually identical for Windows. The frustration for me when trying to install Reader X for Windows was finding a download link for just Reader without any additional baggage.… Read the rest

11/22/201009/22/2013

How to Install Adobe Reader X Safely on Mac OS X

The new version of Adobe Acrobat Reader is out. Unlike its Windows counterpart it does not have the Sandboxing option. They are calling this version “Reader X”. I assume the ‘X’ is to be pronounced “ten” since it follows Reader 9.… Read the rest

03/21/201009/22/2013

Adobe is the Latest Genericized Trademark

A genericized trademark is a brand that has become synonymous with the class of product being sold like Dumpster, Kleenex, Q-Tip, Band-Aid, Jell-O, Styrofoam, and so on. Today in the tech world most consumers have a hard time telling the difference between the company and the product they sell.… Read the rest

01/19/201009/22/2013

Tools We Use: Apple Preview

Acrobat Reader has grown from a simple portable document reader to a behemoth. Most of the time you just want to view a PDF. You don’t need all the features of Acrobat when you already have a perfectly good PDF reader in Preview.app.… Read the rest

04/16/200909/22/2013

Adobe PDFViewer Safari Plugin, No Thanks

Whenever I have to install or update Adobe Acrobat, I always have to go back in afterward and remove the Acrobat plugin from the Library/Internet Plug-ins directory. With the most recent update to Acrobat Reader 9.1, I spotted a new option.… Read the rest