PDFelement, a brilliant PDF reader and editing app from Wondershare Software that takes the pain out of editing, collating and annotating PDF files, allows you to perform all the tasks you’d need to with your PDF, all from the convenience of your iPhone/iPad handset.

If you’re looking to improve productivity on the go, and you use PDF files often, PDFelement is a good choice. A surprise news is that this app has been made available for free for a limited time during 25th/April to 27th /April (Normal deal is $4.99). You can upgrade to full featured pack without being charged that enables you to do just about anything with a PDF on your iOS device.

Adobe’s free tool for designers that will give them a whole lot of new features. Adobe XD is a design and prototyping tool which is currently free to download. The first version was released in March 2016 and there is still much more to come.

What is Adobe XD?

Adobe Experience Design (XD) is a tool for designers that lets them create interactive prototypes of apps and websites. It is a drag-and-drop software which is literally a piece of cake to use.

It happens many times that you have a PDF file which you need to share with your colleague or friend but it needs some sort of editing. For example, you want to remove some pages or images before you actually share it. No doubt, you need to spend some time on editing if you use general editing tools and commands. However, such editing can be done quickly through PDF Eraser, which is indeed a simple and useful tool that adds utmost comfort into your life. You would be able to quickly erase unwanted text and images with the mean of it.

With tablet and mobile devices prevailing in the market, PDF format has become even more popular. Recently Wondershare released BETA of their PDF Editor and here is a review with chance to get the application for free.

Wondershare PDF Editor features a simple and elegant interface. The toolbar gives a clear guide and users can easily have PDF files edited. Almost all PDF related tasks can be performed from this one application, without requiring any PDF reader, users can view your PDF files and also open multiple PDF file at the same time. Users can edit text, object and links, add annotations, merge and split PDF files, crop, extract and delete pages and even change the file name. What’s more, users can also convert PDF to word/RTF by one click.

It can recognize 17 languages, including English, Turkish, Greek, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Romanian, and Catalan.

Another handy feature is that users can find and replace any words or phrases in the text like what they do with Office by pressing Ctrl+F. The pencil tool on the toolbar makes editing simpler.

Spat between Late Steve Jobs And Adobe Flash is well-known among the tech-circle, surprisingly Adobe has dropped down their weapons and announced not to further develop the "Adobe Flash Plugin" for mobile devices anymore. According to the official blog-post announcing this Adobe is encouraging developers to use Adobe AIR and HTML5 in the future as alternatives to the Flash web-plugin.

While light-weight pdf readers are a very good alternative to "Adobe Reader" and there are more reasons other than just the bloat to use them, but there are times when a user needs to rely upon the official PDF reader from Adobe. Today we will see how to use free utility software "Adobe Reader X" to digitally sign a document, a digital signature or e-signature is a mathematical encryption technique used to ensure authenticity of a digital message or document. A valid digital signature gives a recipient reason to believe that the message was created by a known sender, and that it was not altered or tampered with in-transit.

If you are using any alternative PDF viewers like Google Docs Viewer or Sumatra Reader to get away from Adobe Reader bloat - you might land on an error as shown below when trying to read some PDF files.

Adobe Acrobat Professional offers features letting users compare PDF Documents showing the differences between two versions of a file, however the software suite is not free - but fortunately we have free utilities to get the task done easily.

Free, open-source, cross-platform and portable utility DiffPDF allows users to compare PDF files visually for changes supporting two comparison-modes - Text and Appearance, the text comparison mode highlights text-changes while the appearance mode also takes care of any changes made to embedded images.

Pre-release leaks of major software and game titles is nothing new and following the trend, much awaited release of Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Master Collection has now been leaked to public on internet by famous cracker WZOR - the shocking news for Adobe is the leak also comes with the "XForce keygen" - the activation key generator to allow pirated copies of Adobe CS 5.5 Master Suite with complete instruction's on how to disable and bypass Adobe activation protection.

The leaked build of "Adobe CS 5.5 Master Suite" is now readily availble for download on torrent network's and numerous file sharing network, containing the comprehensive utility suite featuring Photoshop CS5 Extended, Acrobat X Pro, Flash Professional CS5.5, Illustrator CS5, InDesign CS5.5, Dreamweaver CS5.5, Flash Catalyst CS5.5, Flash Builder 4.5 Premium Edition, Fireworks CS5, Contribute CS5, Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, After Effects CS5.5, Adobe Audition CS5.5, Adobe OnLocation CS5, Encore CS5, Bridge CS5, Device Central CS5.5, Media Encoder CS5.5, and integrated CS Live online services.

Adobe Acrobat Reader has not been my choice of free PDF reader utility thanks to it's security issues, bloat and intrusive updater. Adobe has now started to address these issues and the latest release of "Adobe Acrobat Reader X" features new security measure known as “Adobe Reader Protected Mode” which is a sandboxing functionality which basically isolates the PDF reader from rest of the system shielding the user computer from any threat embedded into the document, the technology is based on Microsoft’s “Practical Windows Sandboxing”.