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From The Verge last week: Annotating PDFs on a tablet is a widely-held dream in the suit community, and now Adobe's making it a little easier — the free Adobe reader app for iOS and Android is being updated to support electronic signatures and basic annotations. The ability to sign PDFs while not using a separate third-party application will be a welcome update for Adobe Reader users on iOS and Android devices.  Do you find yourself signing PDF files while mobile on your Tablet device?  Does it work well?  Reach out to us today on Twitter or Facebook to discuss if this is a good use of technology, or is it just going one step too far?...

From the Windows Business Blog: So, in light of spring officially kicking-off this month, I wanted to offer some tips and tricks to spring clean your small business this year. Evenmoreso with the unseasonably warm temperatures today in the Northeast US, have you taken the time put your technology through a spring cleaning?  Jay from the Windows Business Blog covers some great tips to apply to your computer systems and make sure they're up to date and compatible with all the latest software.  If you'd like ITS' help with organizing your business' techology contact us today!  Or, if you'd just like to chat, reach out to us on Twitter or Facebook to discuss how we can help you move your busin...

From The Verge: Microsoft announces they are ending mainstream support for their Windows Vista Operating System today, as well as ending all Windows XP Operating System patches in 2014.  We have many clients (ourselves included!) that still run Windows XP and Windows Vista as their primary operating systems, do you?  Have you thought about upgrading to Windows 7 or another new Operating System in the near future?  If so, reach out to us today on Twitter or Facebook to discuss how we can help you move your business forward! More information can be found at Microsoft's Lifecycle webpage....

From the Appstorm iPhone blog comes a great roundup of 40 tricks and shortcuts for your iPhone and/or iPad.  A few of these will be second nature to expert iOS users, but some we didn't even know about!  Did you know in you Calendar app, you can automatically get a week view by rotating your iPhone to landscape view?  Did you know you can now automatically update your iOS version over-the-air, no need to plug into your laptop or desktop to update! As iOS devices are becoming the new mobile standard for SMB and Enterprise users, we see more and more clients moving to iPhones and iPads for their mobile solutions.  We have integrated many custom on-premise and cloud applications with iOS devic...

via The Dropbox Blog, we learn about further updates to the Dropbox web client.  Hot off the full HTML5-ification of Dropbox.com's web client a few weeks ago, the web client was just updated to allow drag and drop: "If you use Chrome, Firefox, or Safari, you can now upload files by dragging them from your desktop onto the Dropbox website." This functionality is a welcome addition to Dropbox's already solid web interface for their cloud storage backend.  Do you leverage cloud storage in your organization?  If you're interested in leveraging Dropbox for your small to medium business, contact ITS today!...