DocumentSnap

One issue with the Fujitsu ScanSnap and OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard that I forgot to mention the other day is the ABBYY FineReader that comes bundled with it. When scanning with the version of Finereader that ships with the ScanSnap S510M and S1500M, you may get an error message like “File not created with ScanSnap”. [...]

Update Nov 13, 2009: The Snow Leopard fix has been released. See this for more information! Since Apple’s new version of OSX – 10.6 aka Snow Leopard is released today, I thought I’d make this post so that we can share our experience using the Fujitsu ScanSnap with it. I haven’t found any indication that [...]

As we all know, one issue with doing online backup is if you have a huge amount of data to upload or download, it can take a lonnnnnnnnng time to upload or download. Amazon has a clever solution to take care of this problem for you. You can ship them a hard drive and have [...]

So I was about to do a post about how Earth Class Mail has changed their pricing plans, but I then realized that I had never actually written about this service before. I’ll have to remedy that right now! What Is It? You can think of Earth Class Mail like an online post-office box. Instead [...]

Like many of you I am sure, I use Google Reader to read my RSS feeds. Sometimes when I come across articles that I want to save into my Evernote account, I’d click on the article to open it in a tab, then hit the Evernote clipper button, and so on. No more. Evernote has [...]

One company that I have been meaning to write about for quite some time is SpiderOak, which is an online backup and sync provider I have been hearing a lot of good things about. Cross Platform While other online backup providers have been Windows-only until just recently, SpiderOak has been cross platform right from the [...]

Tad over at Paper Jammed has written a really great piece called Keeping Your Documents Readable For Years To Come. In it, he doesn’t just state that PDF is the best choice for document archiving, but he goes through the history and the reasons for it. What if you had to show someone this document [...]

According to the Mozy blog, the online backup company has just updated their Mac client. The biggest functionality that they have added is the ability to exclude types of files from your backup. Seems like pretty critical functionality for a backup client but hey, who am I to judge? Here’s a list of the enhancements [...]

This one is for the Mac users out there. Anyone who has used Mac OSX, whether they know it or not, has probably used Preview (or as Mac-heads call it, Preview.app) at some point. Any time you double click on an image or PDF, it is probably Preview that is starting up to view it. [...]

Over at Fujitsu’s ScanSnap Community site, they have a helpful tutorial that walks you through how to create a scanned version of your signature for use in emails, documents, etc. First, sign a blank page. Then scan the page and save it to a JPEG (if you want more info on how to do this, [...]