Many Canadians will be familiar with Steve Dotto, who goes by “Canada’s Most Respected Geek”[1], and who has for years hosted Dotto Tech on TV and radio. In fact, I was recently interviewed on the show. Steve is hosting a series of live events called ProTECHtivity, which is billed as “a workshop designed to massively […]
Continue readingAs you may or may not know, I do a series of weekly videos with short tips on going paperless. These are available here on the Blog and also on the DocumentSnap YouTube channel. Awesome DocumentSnap reader Susan recently wrote me with a great suggestion: why not have YouTube Playlists so that if you are […]
Continue readingMany readers choose to support the DocumentSnap site by making online purchases through some of the links that you see here. When you purchase, say, a scanner through one of my links, I get a small commission. A nice thing about this is that at the end of the year, I can take a look […]
Continue readingIn December, for the third year in a row, I did a survey of DocumentSnap blog readers and readers of the now bi-weekly DocumentSnap newsletter. I have found this very helpful each year, and last year for the first time I shared the results of the survey with you. Seems only fair. In the surveys, […]
Continue readingYesterday I had the pleasure of appearing on Steve Dotto’s DottoTech radio show and podcast. As you can imagine, we talked about going paperless. My episode is Dotto Tech 90 – Genealogy, Writing And A Paperless Life, and my part starts at about 20:00. It was my first time doing a “for realz” radio show […]
Continue readingHere are some of our posts from this week in years past. 2011 Preserving Family History A nice scanning story about preserving family memories. Doxie Go Review My review of the Doxie Go, which I guess has been out for a year now. If you are interested, its cousin the Doxie One just came out […]
Continue readingHere are some of our posts from this week in years past. 2011 A Paperless Genealogy Research Trip I love reports like this. Video: Seed Your Initial CrashPlan Backup If you have a lot of data to back up, it might take ages to upload. If you are backing up to another computer, CrashPlan has […]
Continue readingEvery year at this time I like to pause the regular flow of tips and ranting and ask you what you’d like to see on the blog going forward. This will be the third year in a row that I have done the DocumentSnap Blog Survey, and if this year is anything like the previous […]
Continue readingHere are some of our posts from this week in years past. 2011 How Screenwriter John August Writes Always cool to read the different ways that people use their scanners. Video: Find All PDFs On Your Windows Computer Sometimes you just want to find them all. Doxie Go Goes Cordless Looks like the Doxie Go […]
Continue readingHere are some of our posts from this week in years past. 2011 Borrow Library Books On Your Kindle Why oh why isn’t this in Canada yet? Video: Password Protect PDFs On The Mac It’s nice how this is built in to Mac OS X. CrashPlan Goes Mobile I just used this the other day. […]
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