Read and write PDF files easily with Foxit Reader 6

There's a lot to be said for software that just works. That isn't to say that Adobe Reader doesn't work, but it has a lot of baggage attached to it that Foxit Reader doesn't. As a result, Foxit is significantly smaller and faster. The actual functionality is pretty straight-forward. It reads PDFs, and it comes with a PDF printer so you can actually create PDFs for free, too. It supports a few optional features like filling out PDF forms, but for the most part it sticks to one task and does it really well. You have a choice between a modern ribbon user interface or a classic menu-and-toolbar interface. However, before you download, there are two important provisions.

In Tomorrow’s Wars, Battles Will Be Fought With a 3-D Printer

3-D printed drone is shot down by insurgents near a far-flung base manned by the U.S. military. Within hours, a small lab dropped onto the base by a helicopter days before churns out a replacement — along with plenty of ammunition and reinforced shelters for the troops. A few miles off a nearby coastline, a naval ship-turned-factory harvests resources from the sea and uses on-board printers to make everything from food to replacement organs. It’s a far-out vision for future combat, but at least one naval officer thinks it could happen. According to Lt. Cmdr. Michael Llenza, who sketched out the scenario in the latest Armed Forces Journal, 3-D printing could arguably “upend the way we think about supply chains, sea basing and even maritime strategy.” And by we, Llenza doesn’t just mean Americans. The Chinese military is already bragging about how they are printing parts for their next-gen aircraft.

Konica Minolta to Unveil New Inkjet Textile Printer

Konica Minolta, Inc. will be unveiling for the first time a new inkjet textile printer, the Nassenger PRO120, at ShanghaiTex 2013, an international textile and garment machinery exhibition to be held at Shanghai, China, from June 10 through June 13.
As the third model in the Nassenger PRO series, the new, high-performance Nassenger PRO120 is twice as fast as that of the popular model, the Nassenger PRO60 introduced last year. Equipped with high-density, independently-driven, water-based inkjet printheads, the new model is optimized for sample manufacturing to production in small lots. Konica Minolta's unique Automatic Printhead Maintenance System supports smooth, continuous printing for long hours or night-time operation, contributing to stable print quality and labor-saving for operators. With optional dryer and textile winder, the Nassenger PRO120 offers comprehensive inkjet printing solutions from unwinding, printing, drying through winding. With footprint of approximately 15m², the new model is compact to install within limited space in the manufacturing floor. The nine-color ink lineup has been designed so that the textile design and its brilliant colors will take advantage of digital printing into high-quality output.

Lexmark CX410de Color Laser Multifunction Printer

Unorthodox doesn't always equate with inferior. Despite an output tray that discharges in the rear, the Lexmark CX410 Multifunction Color Laser Printer is far more than a glorified fax machine. And its trayless multipurpose input feeder, which handles just a single sheet at a time, still seems a clever and pragmatic way to save space and improve ease-of use.

How One Company Built the 3-D Printer Market Layer by Layer

Upstart 3-D printer companies have captured the attention of makers, but a 30 year old company called 3D Systems is having a record year on Wall Street. The company just announced an 81 percent increase in sales of their 3-D printers, catapulting their market capitalization over $4 billion. Their Cube 3-D printer is the first of its kind for sale at a big box store like Staples. And while MakerBot might have snagged the sweet brand name “Replicator” from Star Trek, 3D Systems got the exclusive license to print personalized 3-D figurines of Starship Enterprise crew members coinciding with the new movie’s premiere.

SIP Forum’s Fax Over IP Task Group Achieves Milestone with the Publication of IETF RFC 6913

The SIP Forum announced today its Fax over IP (FoIP) Task Group has achieved a significant milestone in its mission to improve international IP fax transport services with the publication of RFC 6913 – a new Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) RFC that introduces a new “sip.fax” media feature tag that aims to enable the intelligent routing of International faxes and greatly improve the reliability of International faxing services.
RFC 6913, co-authored by David Hanes, Kevin Fleming and Gonzalo Salgueiro, defines and registers with IANA a new "fax" media feature tag for use with the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). Currently, fax calls are indistinguishable from voice calls at call initiation. Consequently, fax calls can be routed to SIP user agents that are not fax capable. A "fax" media feature tag implemented in conjunction with caller preferences allows for early advertisement of fax capabilities and consequently, more intelligent fax call routing.
Carriers have long struggled with the quality and reliability of international IP faxing using the T.38 fax protocol in SIP networks — a critical challenge for global service providers transitioning from a TDM to an IP-based network infrastructure. With the new “sip.fax” media feature tag, service providers worldwide have a new tool available to them that will allow for standardized, well-defined and optimized intelligent routing policies whereby they can selectively direct FoIP calls over qualified FoIP routes. RFC 6913 is intended to enable a standards-based framework that eliminates implementation-dependent variability and to support successful end-to-end transmission of international fax calls between networks.
The SIP Forum’s FoIP Task Group is chartered with improving the quality and reliability of FoIP in SIP networks, particularly the inter-carrier use of FoIP. First launched in late 2008 to address the technical and interoperability challenges involving the transmission of fax documents over a SIP-enabled network, the group outlined some of the key issues in its 2009 FoIP Problem Statement, and the publication of the T.38 SIP-SDP Problem Statement.
FoIP Task Group leadership includes: Chair Gonzalo Salgueiro, Technical Leader at Cisco; Marc Robins, President and Managing Director of the SIP Forum; and Max Schroeder, Sr. VP. FaxCore, who serves as Task Group Whip.

FlipPageMaker LTD Released Page Turning Software for PDF

Flippagemaker.com released the newest e-book making software that can turn the life of people in digital publishing industry at ease. E-book is popular nowadays and it offers plenty of advantages and benefits. Some of the key advantages of e-book are cheaper, easy to distribute, space saver, and lighter. Flipbook Creator Professional by Flippagemaker.com is a professional type of e-book making software can change PDF files to page flipping digital publications. The software allows users to convert pdf to flippingbook, embed multimedia objects to e-book pages such as hotspots, hyperlinks, flash, button, slideshow, graphics, audio, images, and videos.
The e-book creator software allows its user to preserve table of contents, bookmarks, hyperlinks, and text orientation from their PDF original file. The software also allows users to publish their PDF flipping books on the web and share it to different social networking websites. The e-book created using the software can even be saved on USB or burned on DVD/CD by its users. FlipPageMaker is dedicated in providing the best e-book making software that can make e-books quickly and easily on different platforms.
E-Book making software by Flippagemaker.com is very powerful and can efficiently make HTML5 and Flash e-books. It is page turning software which can easily and quickly create unlimited e-books with realistic 3D effects, supports making e-books with HTML5 that works on mobile devices and browsers, and integrate graphics, flash, audio, and video to e-book pages. The e-book making software can be downloaded at http://flippagemaker.com/flippingbook-maker/index.html and can be installed on a PC computer. Every individual that needs e-book making software, especially the people from digital publishing industries can greatly benefit from the software. The software allows every user to create as many e-books they want and publish them on cloud services of the company. Also, it gives users the ability to control everything including the hosting of their production in house and the entire publication.
Making flash flip e-books is one of the good ways to reduce the usage of papers, and then save the forest and environment. Through the help of e-book making software e-book publishers do not need to spend much on space and transportation. E-books can be much richer than material book with the help of software. Users can add sound, images, videos, links, and many other elements to make the e-book content attractive and more fun to read. FlipPageMaker business group aims to transform traditional publication to electronic book and the software can be an effective way to save resources. Online library, online classroom, distant education can make use of online resources which is much more economic.