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This article was written on June 20, 2006 by CyberNet.

Time Saving Tuesday

Two of Adobe’s most popular applications, Photoshop and Acrobat, take disappointingly long to load up. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could cut the loading time down? For me Photoshop would take almost 25 seconds to startup and Acrobat was also very close to that. It was time to trim down some plug-ins. The software I use below is free from AcroPDF Systems and does not require installation.

First, we’ll start with Photoshop. I frequently use this application for performing common photo editing tasks. I don’t need all of the “above and beyond” plug-ins that the professionals need, well, I definitely don’t need them everyday. Here is what you have to do ( compatible with Adobe Photoshop versions 3 through 8 ):

1. Download Photoshop Speed-Up.
2. Run the photosu.exe executable (no installation needed).
3. Enter in the destination of your Photoshop installation. Mine was C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS2.
    
4. Select your options from this screen. I just chose the default options because if you ever need to go back you can just select the “Restore” option.
    
5. Enjoy your faster Photoshop! Make sure you keep the photosu.exe file around in case you need to restore your Photoshop plug-ins. I just stuck the file in my Photoshop installation directory so that I wouldn’t lose it.

If you thought that was great then you will love what the same kind of software can do for Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader. It can remove the advertisement banner, disable updates, disable plug-ins, hide the splash screen, and more. You get to pick and choose which items you do or don’t want it to change. Just like the Photoshop tweak above this one is just a few steps long ( compatible with Adobe Acrobat 3 to 7 and Adobe Reader 6 to 7 ):

1. Download PDF Speed-Up.
2. Run the pdfsu.exe executable (no installation needed).
3. Enter in the destination of your Adobe Acrobat or Reader installation. Mine was C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0.
    
4. There are a lot of different options that you can pick for this one so look through them all to see which ones sound good and which ones you would rather leave.
    
5. Enjoy your faster Adobe Acrobat or Reader! Make sure you keep the pdfsu.exe file around in case you need to restore any of the settings. I put it in my Acrobat installation directory just like I did for the Photoshop Optimizer above.

Well, I hope that really saves you some time when you are starting up your Adobe software. Photoshop now starts up for me in less than 5 seconds which means it is about 80% faster than before. If I ever find out that I need the plug-ins then I am just a few clicks away from restoring the plug-ins and features I disabled.

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Evernote has rolled out an update for its Android app, bringing with it some goodies for Premium users and improvements overall that make taking daily notes on a mobile device a bit easier and more convenient. After updating the note-taking app, Android users will find an improvement to the Page Camera, namely in its performance, […]

This afternoon the team at Cyanogen Inc. have made clear their intention to launch the CyanogenMod Installer to Google Play for Android. This app will made the CyanogenMod Project a reality in as simple a manner possible for users of Android who wish to work with a unique user interface for their Android device. Unlike […]

We appear to be in an age where the way we capture photos – followed by the way we display them – is in a state of evolution. Today’s update from the folks at Lytro unveils a new way to view the photos taken with the Lytro camera – you’ll soon be able to see […]

This article was written on September 08, 2011 by CyberNet.

Notepad (in Windows) has a unique feature that a lot of people don’t know about. If you open a file in Notepad where the first line contains “.LOG” you will automatically see the current time and date appended to the end of the file. Here is how it works:

1. Open Notepad.
2. Type .LOG on the first line, and press ENTER to go to the next line.
3. Save the file (you can save it with any file extension).
4. Each time you open the file you’ll see the time/date appended on a new line, and your cursor will automatically be placed on the line following the time/date.

Why would something like this be useful? I’ve used it in the past when I’ve need to keep a running log of events that I had to manually track. That way whenever something would happen that I needed to log I’d just open the text file, type what I needed, save it, and close it. It may not necessarily be the most elegant solution for something like this, but it works without the need for any third-party apps.

Microsoft Support: How to Use Notepad to Create a Log File

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