My cousin told me that I should make a phone call to thank my mom as Thanksgiving had come. I did it that day, though I did not prepare anything for her. That time I felt a brief “Thank you” pushes us closer even we were in different cities now.

No turkey, no pumpkin, we don’t prepare Thanksgiving feast to celebrate the festival as it doesn’t actually have a Chinese origin. However, there’s still one thing we learn from Thanksgiving—being grateful and saying “Thank you” to others. We don’t necessarily give gifts to others. (Actually I bought a box of chocolate for my roommate, and we eat it together.)

The news that Apple released iOS 4.2 on Monday cheers Ranee a lot, as she has recently got her iPad with the help of one of her friends in HongKong. And at present, she is very fond of reading news and eBooks, or playing games on it. That’s why she feels excited about the new features of iOS4.2 and update her iPad immediately. And here are the new key features and things iPad can do after updating to iOS4.2:

by Mark Hachman, PCMAG.com

Google’s Chrome beta channel has added an integrated PDF viewer for viewing Adobe Acrobat documents without leaving the browser.

“To open a PDF document, you’d typically need to install additional software or a browser plug-in in order to view it in a web browser,” Google wrote in a Thursday posting on the Chrome blog. “With the integrated Chrome PDF viewer now available in Chrome’s beta, you can open a PDF document in Chrome without installing additional software.”

by Serenity Caldwell, Macworld.com

Users of Adobe programs should take note: the company on Tuesday updated its security advisory for Flash Player, Reader, and Acrobat.

The announcement brings patch updates for both Reader and Acrobat; Flash Player received a patch earlier in the month. Adobe recommends all users running Reader or Acrobat 9 or later update to 9.4.1, while users running Flash Player 10.1.85.3 are encouraged to update to 10.1.102.64.

A handy tool to convert PDFs into other text-based formats
by Michael Burns, Macworld.co.uk

PDF Converter for Mac is a utility for converting and transferring information stored in PDF files. The application opens on a drag-and-drop dialog box that invites you to drag on files, or you can use a File > Import path. Both methods can support numerous PDF files in one batch conversion operation.