Adobe to Release PDF for Industry Standardization

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jan. 29, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that it intends to release the full Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.7 specification to AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management Association, for the purpose of publication by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). [Link]

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Adobe PDF flaw: more serious than first thought

A recently discovered security weakness in the widely used Acrobat Reader software could put net users at more risk than previously thought, experts have warned.

Initially, security professionals thought that the problem was restricted and exposed only web-related data or could support phishing scams. Now it has been discovered that miscreants could exploit the problem to access all information on a victim's hard drive, said web security specialists at SPI Dynamics and WhiteHat Security. [read more]

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The Science of Word Recognition

"Evidence from the last 20 years of work in cognitive psychology indicate that we use the letters within a word to recognize a word" [Read more]

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STC Annual Conference: I will be presenting a paper

I will be presenting 'Low Cost Usability Testing' on 9 December at 9:45 AM. Be there.

See the Conference website

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Google to Merge Writely and Spreadsheets to Form Google Docs

Breaking news: Google will announce tomorrow at the Office 2.0 conference a new product called Google Docs, which will merge Writely and Google Spreadsheets into a collaboration and document management solution, according to sources.

The new offering will be available at docs.google.com, although that address produces a 404 error right now. [Read more]

docs.google.com works now.

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A technical writer's worst enemy is another technical writer

Why your coworkers think you are a technical writer with a stick up your a** [Read more]

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Use Old Words When Writing for Findability

"Familiar words spring to mind when users create their search queries.
If your writing favors made-up terms over legacy words, users won't
find your site."
[Read more on Useit.com]

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