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Filed under: Freeware, Internet, Internet Tools

Firefox-Mac-PDF allows in-line PDFs for Firefox

by Cory Bohon (RSS feed) on Jun 18th, 2008

If you switched to Firefox from another browser like Safari that supports in-line PDF viewing (that's the ablity to look at a PDF in the browser instead of downloading it), then you might have been disheartened to learn that Firefox does not support this feature natively. However, you will find Firefox-Mac-PDF to be a useful plug-in.

Firefox-Mac-PDF allows for the same in-line PDF viewing that can be found in Safari. This plug-in requires Firefox 3 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or higher. You can download the plug-in for free from their Google Code page.

To install the plug-in, just open the Add-ons panel by going to Tools > Add-ons. Once there, drag the downloaded ".xpi" file to the Add-ons. You will be asked if you wish to install the plug-in. Once you restart Firefox you'll be able to view all PDFs right within Firefox.

[via Lifehacker]

Tags: Firefox, in-line, Mac, PDF, PDFs, plug-ins, plugin, tweet-this, viewing

Filed under: Books, iPhone

iPhone: The Missing Manual available in August, PDF bundle available now

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Jul 18th, 2007

The venerable David Pogue has worked his relentless magic yet again to conjure up yet another manual that apparently should have been in the box with iPhone: The Missing Manual (though one could certainly argue that there would have been no way to fit a typical book in the iPhone's impressively compact packaging anyway). As the promo email that I just received states, Pogue's iPhone coverage is summarized into four primary categories: the phone and organizer, the iPod, the Internet, and the hardware and software. Pogue even tackles such issues as synching an iPhone with multiple machines and ways to solve the iPhone's lack of a spam filter. Heck, Mr. Pogue is so into the iPhone, he even sang about switching to it.

If you're already hooked and itching to both buy and read, O'Reilly is offering a bundle deal right up your alley: though the $20 book doesn't ship until sometime in August, you can purchase a $24.99 bundle to get a PDF copy right now. Either way, you can find out more details at O'Reilly's product page for iPhone: The Missing Manual.

Tags: books, david pogue, DavidPogue, iphone, missing manual, MissingManual, o reilly, o'reilly, OReilly, pdfs

Filed under: TUAW Tips

TUAW Tip: Create smaller PDF files

by Erica Sadun (RSS feed) on Jun 1st, 2007

PDFs created by OS X's built-in "Save as PDF..." option on the print menu have a tendency to bloat. OS X's PDFs are often a lot bigger than the ones you get from, say, Adobe Acrobat. (Not the "reader", the actual creation program.) Fortunately, the same PDF menu that allows you to print to PDF also allows you to create a smaller, compressed version of your material. Instead of selecting "Save as PDF...", try selecting "Compress PDF" instead. You'll produce a compact version of your PDF file.

To test, I printed TUAW's home page in both normal and compressed versions. The savings? Almost 10% smaller file size.

Tags: PDFs

Filed under: How-tos

Create a PDF listing of a folder's contents

by Erica Sadun (RSS feed) on Feb 14th, 2007

MurphyMac has posted yet another cool how-to video. This one shows how to create a PDF listing of the contents of an OS X folder. It relies on creating a sidebar printer, which you can find out how to do in this related trick. By dragging a folder to the sidebar printer and saving to PDF, you create a tabular listing of the folder's contents. The video offers the complete how-to steps. I can easily see using this trick to create an index for photos or videos that I need to archive.

MurphyMac is the same site that showed us how to sleep a Mac by email and customize your disk images.

Tags: MurphyMac, PDFs

Filed under: iTunes, Podcasting

MAKE's guide to PDF podcasts

by Erica Sadun (RSS feed) on Jan 23rd, 2007

My Make-buddy Phillip Torrone tipped us off on his recent PDF-in-iTunes guide. As you might already know, there are more and more PDFs appearing in iTunes, usually as support material for podcasts but they're starting to become a desirable product in and of themselves. Philip and his crew have put together as complete a PDF podcast guide as possible, to help people locate and download iTunes-available PDF podcasts from sources like CRAFT, SkyMaul (*hee*!), Rick Steves and more. Lots and lots of cool stuff to explore.

Tags: pdfs, podcasting

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