Well, I've moved my main computer at home to Linux finally settling on SUSE. My secondary computer is still Windows for recording TV, some games I don't play very often, and for handling CorelDraw projects until I've found a good replacement or perhaps get WINE to run CorelDraw.

Thanks for all the suggestions, people (esp. Consuela!).

If I have a non-editable PDF, what are my options for typing stuff over it while on my computer (as opposed to printing it out and using a typewriter)?

I suppose I could open it in photoshop and use the text tool, but that seems unnecessarily complicated. Any (new) suggestions?

Jon, the PDF doesn't have fields for you to fill in? How crass.

My coworkers just fill such things out in pen.

Jon, the PDF doesn't have fields for you to fill in? How crass.

There are a bunch of PDFs I need to fill out. Some are fill-out-able, some are not. But even the ones that are fill-out-able, I've found that there's not enough room to enter my answer, and the font size doesn't seem to be adjustable.

Yes, there are several on the IRS website like that. How very un-useful.

Speaking of PDFs, is there an innexpensive program that will allow you to modify them? I'm thinking here not of forms but of simple copies of documents. What I'd like to do is the equivalent of underlining or writing notes in the margin.

Acrobat Pro will let you do that, but I don't know how much it costs for a single user.

eta: Amazon lists it for $390 [link]

Okay, so according to iLounge:

Cassette tape adapters are today the second-best sounding way to connect an iPod to a car...FM transmitters are almost universally guaranteed to have a higher noise to signal ratio than good cassette adapters, but they may be the only option for people whose cars do not have tape players.

When I went browsing at Best Buy, the sales guy mocked me for considering a tape adapter. He said it was fine "fifteen years ago." So I didn't get very far, since I ended up wanting to shove a Nano up his ass.

I know people have talked in here about the FM transmitters and talked about static and sound quality. Does anyone have an iPod-car solution they adore? We're leaning toward the FM one because we'd love to be able to transmit to radios in the house, so it would have to be one that didn't have a cigarette-lighter-adapter thing permanently attached.

I tried two different FM adapters and never found a frequency that worked in my car. Regardless of that, the sound quality was going to be lower than cassette, even if the tech is cooler.

Better quality than a tape adapter is going to be one of those direct-to-console inputs -- Rio got one, I think, and so did a co-worker. He loves his. I can google if you want -- that solution requires actual installation.