What Users Can Learn About EULAs From Adobe

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In a controversial move last month, Adobe announced a warning that any Creative Cloud subscribers using older versions of the apps is liable to get sued by third parties.

According to news stories, the reason seems to be due to legal issues between Adobe and Dolby Labs. In short, there are claims that Adobe included Dolby technology in software and subscription packages without paying the appropriate royalties. As a result, Adobe’s users are no longer licensed to use the infringing software.

This incident underscores some major points about users, software apps, and End User License Agreements (EULAs) that connect them, which deserve some attention.

As a software user, it’s important to think about what it means to your usage and ownership of the tools you use.

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How A PDF Suite Can Help Your Startup Run Smoothly

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There are a number of things we all wish we could do better. When you’re a one-person team who’s trying to launch a startup, you need all the help you can get to be more efficient, more effective and do things better.

To that end, you can’t underestimate the value of a good, well-oiled, well-organized document management system. In addition to personality and grit, the tools you have at your disposal that will determine how well you can accomplish the multiple day to day digital document tasks.

Tools can fill those gaps as you start scaling up, and, as a bonus, those same tools can even help your future employees establish an official workflow. Though you may not think it, just having a tool like a desktop PDF converter can help kick start your digital document system into gear after its all mapped out.

Here’s how a professional PDF suite like Able2Extract can help a budding startup run more smoothly.

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6 Use Cases Where Converting PDF to Excel Could Save You Hours

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PDF documents are among the most widely used types of files, but they have shortcomings too. Converting a PDF to an Excel spreadsheet instead could save you time and help you avoid pitfalls that could make your productivity plummet.

Here are six ways you can keep your productivity going by performing a PDF-to-Excel conversion.

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Top 8 Tools To Fact Check Your Research

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The Internet is everyone’s main source of information. People perform online searches all the time. One disadvantage of the Internet, though, is how easy it is to publish wrong information.

With fake news getting the spotlight in the past few years, we’ve been forced to be even more vigilant about how credible the information we’re reading about or writing on actually is. However, it’s also forcing us as readers to personally take an active part in learning how to read critically and how to do proper research.

The following list of tools (in no particular order) will help you fact-check your online research, whether it be a video, an image or an article. These tools will help you tell the difference between fact and fiction.

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Convert, Create & Edit PDF In Virtual Desktop Environments

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No one would argue that having the right software and utilities allows you to function at a high level. However, the only issue is that sometimes not all the software and utilities you normally use are available in a way that is cost effective, secure, and scalable for multiple users.

You already know that Able2Extract Professional is first widely known for its existing individual desktop installation.

Secondly, there’s also a server version of the software that offers more flexibility for large corporations, and thirdly, there are SDK versions which developer-oriented users can easily implement.

However, if you’re looking for a more convenient way of using Able2Extract Professional that falls in between a desktop installation and multi-user environment, we have a fourth solution for you.

We’re talking about a solution that works with virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) systems, or what you may refer to more commonly as virtual desktop environments (VDE).

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