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Tried: GIMP, Paint.NET. I admit, I am not in the graphics design business, and my needs for editing images are minimal.  Even though Paint in Windows 7 has improved tremendously from the previous versions, but it still does not fully support transparency. If you are looking for more advanced features such as handling of layers and transparency, but hate the rather long start-up and bulkiness of graphics manipulation softwares, you should try Paint.NET . You will be amazed by the small installer size (<4 MB) and the speed of starting up the software. Hint: I made Paint.NET my default program for editing images. Of course, this is based on my needs. I could not differentiate between Paint.NET and GIMP ; GIMP is another graphics manipulation software similar to Adobe Photoshop. (GIMP is free, of course.) Do tell me the difference if you are in the graphics business.

Last edited 2 Oct 2011.  Tried: Adobe Reader, Foxit Reader, PDF-XChange Viewer, SumatraPDF Portable. As mentioned in my previous post , I discovered some problems with Foxit Reader and PDF-XChange Viewer. More precisely, Foxit Reader had been criticized heavily because it forces installation of a browser toolbar . However, this was changed in the latest version. On the other hand, the rendering in PDF-XChange is not as good as I previously thought. In summary, you can look at the table below. For the installation part, both Foxit and XChange allow users to download the complete installers, but Adobe requires users to use a web installer. During installation of Foxit and XChange, you would need to select shell extensions and PDF display in browser for maximum functionality. As you can see from the table, the setup file of Adobe is huge compared to Foxit and XChange. Functionality wise, all three PDF readers support preview handler in Microsoft Outlook 2011 (you need to

Adding a Google Adsense banner on the right of blog title might sound easy, but getting the right code is especially hard for me. Thanks to the almighty Google, I found a relatively easy instruction in Blogger Sentral . Basically, the code add an extra right section in the default blog header. You can add any additional gadget to the new header section. Simple but neat. View the screen shots after the break.