June 29, 2010 5:25 PM PDT
by Seth Rosenblatt

Foxit Reader has long been the most visible Windows alternative to Adobe Reader, but in the latest update this popular freeware falters. How far it’s stumbled depends on how annoyed you get at installation shenanigans. Granted, there are some useful new features added, but [...]

May 28, 2010 2:16 PM PDT
by Seth Rosenblatt

Alternative free PDF readers have become something of a cottage industry in software, and Nitro just rewrote the instruction manual. A company known for its trialware-only versions of PDF readers, the new Nitro PDF Reader (32-bit | 64-bit) does just about everything the consumer [...]

May 26, 2010 4:00 AM PDT
by Ina Fried

Parallels, known for using virtualization to solve consumer problems, thought it had a surefire new use for its technology.

Why not use the same approach it used to put Windows on a
Mac to help ease the move from XP to Windows 7. The solution was [...]