DocumentSnap

Even though the ScanSnap S1300 was released back in February 2010, up until this point it was only available on the US Amazon through Buy.com. Nothing against Buy.com at all, but a lot of people were asking me when it would be actually sold by Amazon.com so that it would have their free shipping, Amazon [...]

Back in October, Amazon released the International Wireless version of their blockbuster Kindle, but it was only the 6″ version. The larger DX was still just for the US Market. Well, as of January 19, 2010, the Amazon Kindle DX is now available in a Global Wireless version. The Kindle DX is 9.7″ and holds [...]

If you are a user of Amazon Web Services’ S3 storage service, you have probably come across CloudBerry Explorer, which is a tool for managing your S3 data. Well, now the team from that product have taken the next step and have a new product in Beta called CloudBerry Online Backup which, not surprisingly, acts [...]

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 [...]

Recently I came across this tweet from Ross L. Kodner and he brought up a good point – one of the benefits of an online backup is having your data safe and sound. If you live in a city that is prone to earthquakes, hurricanes, etc., it kind of defeats the purpose to have your [...]

Mike Elgan over at Computerworld has written a pretty good article about taking the paperless concept out of the office and into his every day life. It’s a good overview of how he does it and the tools that he uses. There are some DocumentSnap favorites in there. As a kind of “lifestyle experiment,” I’ve [...]