Originally posted by: Muse
Sitting in my dentist's waiting room a couple of weeks ago I pick up the May 2006 copy of PC World and the cover article is "Best Free Stuff; Cool New Downloads, Sites & Services." They never let me sit in there very long, so I scanned and jotted down about a dozen programs that looked promising (almost all, it seemed!). I've only tried one, Foxit Reader, which the article said was a nifty Adobe Acrobat replacement for viewing PDF files. I tried it and decided I prefer Acrobat - Foxit doesn't support the Control + spacebar + left mouse drag-a-rectangle-to-view functionality I've come to expect in PDF's (and PageMaker).
My dentist told me I could borrow the issue, and I have it beside me but I have to bring it back tomorrow. Hopefully, I'll get to investigate some more of the utilities and edit this post with more information.
Edit: I found the article at PC World online:
101 Fabulous Freebies
-the obligatory disclaimer-
I'm in no way affiliated with PC World, etc., and in fact I've only tried one of their recommended utilities and disliked it.