As the library of BrocanteHome PDF’s grows, I am finding it more of a nuisance to track and view them on my laptop, without going to the bother of referring to the bother of referring to the printed editions I keep in my Housekeepers Planner. So as I am wont to do, I set about finding an app that would help me, and lo and behold I happened upon Adobe Digital Editions, which allows me to gather all my PDF’s and EPub format downloads in one easy library and with one click view them within the integral brower. Easy peasy! In the first image above you can see the first page of my “Library” of PDF’s, which you can view as a whole or categorised into sections of your own devising. When you want to view a PDF, you click the little arrow next to the one you have chosen and choose “Open Item” and it opens all by itself, so you can view it just as you would traditionally view a PDF, as below, where I can be seen viewing Page 22 of the Brocantehome Christmas Planner…
So how do you get this joyous little wonder for yourself? Well, first things first you will need to download Adobe Air. This isn’t as scary as it sounds, it is simply the program Adobe Digital Editions (and many other wondrous applications!) uses to work. 1. So take yourself over tohttp://get.adobe.com/air/ and press the yellow button that says Download Now, then follow the very simple requests to get Adobe Air on to your system. 2. When Adobe air is fully downloaded, hop on over to http://www.adobe.ca/products/digitaleditions/ , then scroll down the page and click the brown Launch box to set the Digital Editions Installer in motion, then follow the very simple, very standard instructions and in the blink of an eye you will see the black Digital Editions Reader open on top of your browser and you are ready to start grabbing your utterly scrumptious Brocante PDf’s and creating your very own little library(which really is as easy as opening a file on your computer, choosing a PDF and pressing open and quick as a flash it will be sitting in your Digital Editions Browser before you know it!) Should you be very taken with the possibilities of Adobe Air a quick browse around the Air Marketplace will throw up all manner of stand-alone applications, but my absolute favorite and the one I can barely live without now is Flair.. A really rather fabulous browser for image finding on Flickr that for me at least saves hours of legwork hopping through pages of images on the site itself and instead provides me with a neat little pop up search box. This brings up hundreds of images based on the keyword or phrase that I input, that I can then scroll through or individually light-box faster than I can get through a fun size Mars Bar. Fabulous isn’t it?
Create your own Brocante Life Book, plan Christmas, set up routines and rituals or live life the BrocanteHome way with my guided workbooks and planners.
If you choose to own only one book on green housekeeping then as a vintage kinda girl this is the only one you should offer Brocante shelf room to, if only because it is written by Christina Strutt of Cabbage and Roses…
The Weekend On Friday I woke up feeling funny. You know the kind of bodily funny you can’t quite explain but you know won’t do? I felt beaten up. Bloated. Burpy. Sick. All things, all at once. And while there are days…
This morning started like every other morning during the school holidays has: with the kind of random question that occupies my little boy’s mind when school isn’t filling it with phonics and matheamatical equations. I was half caught up in the kind…
It is Friday. Those who know me of old, know that Friday is magazine night, the night I sit down with a bar of ameretto chocolate and a small pile of scrumptious inspiration. Or at least it used to be. Lately mgazines…
A mosquito tipsy with blood, the children dozingPrams are curdling on the patioHere a high buzz of female conversationOver cups of coffee, intelligent, worn young faces. The house has a lot to answer forBut no-one asks it to account for itselfInstead they…
Sundays too, my Father got up earlyAnd put his clothes on in the blueblack coldThen with cracked hands that achedFrom labor in weekday weatherBanked fires blaze. No-one ever thanked him. I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breakingWhen the rooms were warm…
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