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Google Cloud Print For Android Allows Remote Printing On The Go

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Printers are one of the most useful computer peripherals around, but they're also, quite possibly, one of the most frustrating to configure. Then there are also the problems of managing multiple printers on a network, and making sure they are all running fine and ready to accept print jobs. Google, however, has made printing considerably simpler with Google Cloud Print that has been available in Google Chrome across desktop, iOS and Android. Though if you want to print something outside Chrome from your Android device, the new Cloud Print app that has just debuted on the Google Play Store will take care of that. The app allow you to print anything from documents to photos from your Android device. Read More

Design Print-Ready Sheets Of Single Or Multiple Images With Primg

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The better, more convenient way to print images, especially if you have a lot of them queued up, is to use a print utility, preferably one that’s designed specifically for handling pictures. Primg is a lightweight application developed with this very purpose in mind, and uses three modes to cater to different formatting needs: printing thumbnail grids of all pictures in a selected folder, one image per page, or several copies of a picture per page. What’s more, all major image formats including BMP, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, GIFF, and a plethora of Susie formats are supported. Read More

Clean Up Webpages For Printing; Export To PDF, Cloud & More With CleanPrint For Chrome

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There are two ways to be eco-conscious: one, use less paper; two, make more of less. Since we may never be entirely paper-free, at least not yet, it’s important to exercise good judgment in keeping our waste levels down to a minimum. Printing a web page, for example, can seem indulgent and wasteful because there’s always peripheral content like ads and promos that take too much space, and increase your ink and paper consumption without serving a purpose. Firefox users already have the PDF & Print with Joliprint add-on to clear up their printouts. Chrome users have quite a few options, too, and we’ll be looking at one such today, the Print or PDF with CleanPrint extension. It allows you to strip all the useless content from web pages to prepare them for printing, along with giving you options to save it as a PDF or text file, email it to the intended recipients instead of sending printouts, save it to your Dropbox, Google Drive or Box account, or even send it to your Kindle for offline reading. The extension also supports Google Cloud Print. Read More

A Look At Chrome For iOS’ Fullscreen, PDF To Drive & Print Features

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The iOS app of Google Chrome has gone through a few changes since its release last summer, but the app hasn't received any major updates yet. The previous update gained more popularity for the crashing issue it introduced in jailbroken devices, rather than the few new features it brought. The latest update, however, is a lot more significant. The app now has a full screen mode, lets you convert any webpage to a PDF, and enables you to print pages via AirPrint or Google Cloud Print right from within Chrome. This brings Chrome almost at par with Mobile Safari, as other than the ‘Reader’ mode, you can now do everything with Chrome that can be accomplished in Safari, and then some. Read More

Export Multiple Gmail Messages As A Google Doc For Easy Batch-Printing [Chrome]

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Emails have all but replaced paper in many offices, but we aren’t free of paper entirely; not yet, anyway. There's always that rare occasion that calls for the printing an email; it might be needed as part of some essential work process, some legal or governmental procedure, simply some personal use like printing out a receipt for an online purchase. The fact is that emails are seldom printed, but printed at times nevertheless. Now printing an email is no big deal, but what if you need to print a whole bunch of them, like an entire email thread? Gmail Print All for Chrome is a Chrome app that makes it easier to print emails in bulk. It asks you to select a label from the ones added in your Gmail account and then exports all the emails in that label to a document that is saved to your Google Drive. You can then download the document and print it out with ease. Read More

Save Web Pages As PDF To Hard Disk Or Google Drive & Fax Them In Chrome

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When Google introduced Google Cloud Print, it added a really great tool for sharing a printer and perhaps made a lot of lives easier in the process. The Chrome print dialog is well equipped with options, providing you with a preview of the document you want to print, allowing you to choose which pages to print, and letting you change the layout and margins of your document. If you never ventured to the Google print page because you don’t have a cloud printer set up, here are three other things you can do with it that might make you visit it more often. The print dialog allows you to not just print with a cloud printer but also a network printer and should your printer double as a fax machine, you can fax documents from Chrome’s print dialog as well. You can also save a web page as a PDF, and even connect Chrome with your Google Drive for saving web pages directly to it. Intrigued? This post details exactly how you can do each. Read More

Free ShareShot: Take Screenshots, Edit & Optimize Them For Direct Printing & Web

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Screenshots are the basic need of every blogger. While explaining something, screenshots play the role of a visual aid, as well as confirmation for correct execution of any function that you are trying to explain in your article. For instance, if you are writing an article about performing a task which requires the readers to perform some step by step actions (a tip on how to install Windows 8 on VirtualBox, perhaps), providing the readers with screenshots of each dialog box, and the correct settings to choose in order to configure, make the process a lot easier than if only text were written. Here at AddictiveTips, we take special care in providing our readers with accurate and high quality screenshots within our posts. If you are looking for an easy-to-use screenshot tool that allows you to capture high quality images, check out Free ShareShot. It is an application for Windows that allows you to capture screenshots and edit them to highlight certain portions using conventional marking and annotation tools. It has four capture modes: Capture Region, Capture Last Region, Capture Window and Capture Full Screen, which can be triggered using pre-defined hotkeys. Read More

Print/ Convert Multiple Websites As Single PDF Document In Firefox

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There are many add-ons available for Firefox that let you convert single webpages to PDF documents, but if you want to create a PDF document from multiple webpages, tabs or bookmarks, then Print pages to Pdf is just what you need. This Firefox add-on can be fully customized, including the layout of the PDF that is created, such as its paper size, margins and more. The add-on allows automatic creation of outlines, as well as doing so manually, and headers or footers for every page can be provided. Websites can be edited prior to conversion, so that they contain only text, or both text and images. Read More

Print-it-Easy: Quickly Print Text Snippets Without Saving Them [Mac]

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Have you ever needed to print text super quick? Text like an address to paste on a package or perhaps a phone number, the name of a book, reference to a journal? Basically, anything that you need to print but will be as likely to use again as you are to watch Twilight. If you’re viewing the information in your web browser and you have an extension on hand that allows you to selectively print text snippets, you’re good to go, but in the event that you’re reading it is as PDF or your extension just decided not to work, you will have to copy, paste and save that snippet to a text editor and then print it. Print-it-Easy is a free Mac app that lets you print snippets. It isn’t a text editor; rather, its sole purpose is to get you printing any text as fast as possible. Read More

Handy Scanner: Convert Photos Into Print-Ready PDF Documents [Android]

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Fresh to the Android Market, Handy Scanner is a useful, well-crafted document capturing app that helps you transform captured photos into print-ready documents using five different image enhancement filters, and an automatic document edge-detection feature that can prove to be very handy while capturing page after page of a document that you plan to print later. In a nutshell, Handy Scanner aims to save you from the hassle of scanning and importing your documents into your computer to get them printed. Read More

Create Notes & Print Them Easily With Meta Notebook For iPad

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iOS sure has a lot of apps designed to let users take notes, but not many of them are focused exclusively on iPad. The larger screen area of Apple’s tablet makes it perfect for use in meetings (and it looks more official too, as opposed to whipping out your phone in office), or in any situation when you want to take notes quickly. Meta Notebook is a rather simple app that takes full advantage of the environment offered by the iPad. The app isn’t cluttered with too many options, but does have some really useful features, like Air Print support and a beautiful, light interface. In addition to all that, the app is a must-have if you are looking for a distraction-free environment to create notes on your iPad. Too often users can get lost in a word editor's colors and fancy options, and that has a negative impact on productivity. Meta Notebook makes sure that if you want to write, you simply write. Read More

Cloud Printer: Send Files To Google Cloud Print From Desktop [Mac]

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We’ve reviewed a Chrome extension in the past that allowed you to print webpages via a cloud printer associated with your Google account, but to print documents, you would have to access them through Chrome. Cloud Printer is a Mac app that lets you send print jobs to Google Cloud printers from your desktop. You do not need to access Chrome (although you must have it installed on your system), as the app lets you browse for the file and send it to a configured printer. The slight downside of the app, is that it does not let you choose printer preferences for a particular job, and if you want to restrict printing to simple black & white, you will have to set it from Chrome’s print page. Read More

Print Plus – Select & Print Important Sections Of A Web Page [Chrome]

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Web pages are made for viewing on your screen and not for printing on an A4 size paper. While you should always take care not to print anything unless it’s absolutely necessary (think green) there, nevertheless, are times when you have to print a web page and a web page that is small enough to fit your screen (no scrolling needed) might take up to 3 pages to print. Print Plus is a Chrome extension that helps you save both paper and printing ink, it lets you select which sections of a web page you want to print and omits the unselected ones from being printed. Read More

Instant Pages And Print Preview Debuts In Chrome 13

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Google regularly updates Chrome but not all features it adds effect users on the front end and many go unnoticed. It is however, time to upgrade to Chrome 13 because two of the bigger more obvious improvements have made it to the stable version; Instant pages and Print preview. Print preview isn’t a new concept at all if you’ve used MS Word but it wasn’t available in Chrome and after Google Cloud print, it was badly needed feature. Instant pages however, is new. Chrome now pre-caches the first result on a Google search result page if it detects it is the one you’re looking for; when you click on the first result, the page loads in 0 seconds as it’s already loaded in the backend.

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Print Web Pages, Images And Emails Using Google Cloud Print

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Google Cloud Print just about killed the need of using cables to connect to a printer and if you work in an office where fifty people share one printer and you’ve had to suck up to the guy who’s system it’s connected to, then Cloud Print has probably rescued you in more ways than you can imagine. A few shortcomings with Cloud Print are that it only prints from Google Apps or files from your Android or iPhone. Printing emails, attachments or even images is an entirely different story; Print Using Google Cloud Print is an extension for Chrome that will change all that, it will let you print any file, image or Gmail email or attachment right from your browser. Read More

Change How Emails Are Printed In Thunderbird With PrintingTools

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Anyone can print an email but how many of you can customize every element in an email to get it looking exactly the way you want? PrintingTools is a Thunderbird extension that allows you to change how your email will be printed, you can decide what order essential email elements like the Attachment, Subject, Date, To, From and CC will appear. You can specify font and font size for the email header, body and for quoted text, hide headers and images, specify boarders for headers, truncate headers that are too long, hide inline attachments, choose how the date will appear, and hide the print progress bar while your email prints. Read More

Print Multiple Pages On Each Sheet Of Paper With iPrint

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Resizing and rearranging documents for printing can be quite a hassle. It often becomes hard to reduce the content size to adjust multiple sheets on a single page. It can also be difficult to retain a document’s uniformity, when changing text size or page width and length in a word processor, such as MS Word. iPrint is a printing utility which can be used to easily rearrange document structure to print content in a uniform and compact way on fewer pages. It provides automatic detection of empty pages and allows deleting unwanted pages. You can group together print job requests, convert documents to PDF or HTML format and generate a revenue report based on the reduction of used papers for printing documents. After installation, iPrint integrates into installed applications and helps in changing page structure before printing documents from any application (e.g. Adobe Reader, MS Word, MS Excel, etc). During installation, you can set it as your default printer to make sure that you are provided page structure management options before the printer receives a print command. Read More

Preton Controls Printer Ink Usage To Save Printing Costs

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Preton can cut printing cost by controlling the amount of ink to be used by all applications capable of printing rich text including images, such as, browsers, MS Paint, MS Office applications, etc. Since controlling printer ink usage is practically difficult, it allows you to define range of ink (in percentage) to be used for printing. Preton lists down all the currently running applications which are either actively running at front end or working from background to define Text, Graphic and Image ink usage threshold. Additionally, it can block the printing of images and graphic to make sure that only text from the documents in queue will be printed. You can also view the auto-generated print usage report to evaluate the accumulative printing costs, plan printer usage deduction strategies, and check overall printer ink usage. Read More

Open, Edit, Modify And Export CSV To Excel With Tabular Data Editor

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We have seen many CSV editors in past which claim to edit and export modified CSV file into Excel native formats – XLS and XLSX, but, in fact, almost every tool lacks in properly converting the comma separated values into Excel supported formats, leaving user with two, or even in some cases, three data rows jumbled up in a single column. Today we came across Tabular Data Editor which can seamlessly export comma delimited tabular data into Excel supported formats. Apart from supporting CSV file format, it can handle any type of file whose content is consistently delimited with a single character. With Tabular Data Editor, you can add rows, copy only selected data fields, set row/column height according the length of data sets, and apply filters over Field ID and Type by Equal, Contain, Start With, and by End With parameters. Read More

WinScan2PDF: Scan Documents To PDF File Without Using PDF Printer

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PDF printers, such as Bullzip PDF Printer and PDF24, have become popular tools used for converting text documents into PDF files. But the process of using a PDF printer to convert a scanned image to PDF file format is rather long and tiresome. It generally requires you to first scan the document to image format, then access the image, give Print command, select PDF Printer from the list of available printers, and hit Print button. Kind of headache, isn’t it? A better alternative is to use WinScan2PDF, a simple application that converts scanned documents directly into PDF format, without the need for a PDF printer. Read More