Save money on printing costs

Cutting costs is important these days. There are plenty of ways to do it with your computer. One of the easiest is to reduce the costs associated with printing. As you know, ink and paper aren’t cheap.

You could stop printing documents all together. This would be the most effective way to reduce costs. But that isn’t always an option. If you must print, you can at least reduce use of resources.

Print only what you want

Printing Web pages is problematic. Maybe you like referring to my tips while working on your computer. A hardcopy of the Web page could be helpful. You could refer to it even if you have to shut down the computer.

But printing Web pages wastes a lot of ink and paper. You end up printing ads and banners that you don’t need. A couple free programs can help. They let you select a portion of the page to print.

You print only what you want. It’s a very smart idea. For help with this, use HP Smart Web Printing. If you use Firefox as your Web browser, there is a special extension Aardvark you can use.

Think of other ways to share

If you’re printing things to share with others, consider this alternative. PDF files can be viewed on any computer. Any document will retain its formatting when converted to a PDF. It’s a great way to share and store files without printing.

There are several free PDF writers. These programs add themselves to your list of printers. Just hit print in any document. Instead of printing, the document will be saved as a PDF. Try doPDF or PDFCreator. CutePDF will work on 64-bit and 32-bit Windows Vista. Mac OS X users can use CUPS-PDF.

TrapCall Reveals Who's Behind Blocked Calls

Free service TrapCall reveals caller ID information from blocked calls, unmasking numbers of blocked calls from telemarketers and prank callers with virtually no extra effort on your part.

TrapCall works like this: When you reject or miss a call, your phone forwards those calls to TrapCall's toll free number (you have to follow TrapCall's setup guide to do this). Once sent to TrapCall, the service works its magic on the missed call and then re-routes the call back to you, this time with the caller ID unblocked. If you reject the call a second time, it'll go straight to your normal voicemail. On the caller's end, all they hear during this whole process is ringing.

TrapCall offers three tiers of service. The free version does caller ID unmasking and lets you set up unwanted caller blacklists. The other two pay versions offer more features, including voicemail transcription, caller ID names, support, incoming call recording, and more. You'll need to check with your carrier to see that it supports TrapCall (and also to verify whether or not the service will cost you anything from their end—as call forwarding sometimes does).

The unmasking of blocked calls is great for people frustrated with telemarketers and prank callers, but there is a troublesome side to this service. Namely, as Wired discusses, victims of domestic violence count on caller ID blocking as a form of protection. It's a serious outside case, to be sure, but for general use, TrapCall does what it says, and it does it well.

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