My Adobe Acrobat PDF Files Are Printing Garbage Text (Sometimes)

This issue when printing some PDF documents from within Adobe Reader has been one of the most vexing computer problems I’ve experienced in a while.  I think I might have just figured out how to solve it, so I’m posting a description of the problem, as well as what I believe is a solution (or [...]

New Balance Athletic Shoes – Made In USA? Yeah, Right!

New Balance CM473KO
OK, I’ll admit it again… I’m a skeptic.
This is a continuation of my discussion about the disappearance of American manufacturing jobs, and the lengths that companies will go to in an effort to sugar-coat the fact that they have shipped their manufacturing overseas. See my previous post, Made In USA? Yeah, [...]

Shrinking Products – Pay More, Get Less !

This is the first installment of what will be a continuing category of articles from RoutingByRumor. We will be documenting the most egregious examples of popular consumer products that are shrinking, being downsized or otherwise reduced in quantity or quality by manufacturers often employing “deception engineering” in an attempt to hide the changes from [...]

CompUSA Goes Belly Up

As Queen elequently put it, Another One Bites The Dust (watch the youtube video)
… and now, we can report that CompUSA bytes the dust.
Gee Whiz, I must be psychic or something. Just a few days ago, I posted a comment on this blog that CompUSA, a chain of computer stores in the United [...]

eBay – A Buyer’s Market or a Seller’s Market?

I love eBay. I hate eBay. I’ve used eBay since 1999.
If you are looking for a hard to find, vintage, used, discontinued or rare item, eBay is the first place to look. If you want to find the latest tech gadget at less than retail, check eBay first. A lot of [...]