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CrashPlan Is A Cross-Platform Backup Solution With Some Clever Options

A while ago, a reader (Boba Fett to be exact – I guess intergalactic bounty hunters need to back their stuff up too) suggested that amongst the other backup providers that I mention, I should talk about CrashPlan. Since I know better than to cross the Fett (look what happened to Han), that’s exactly what [...]

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Using a Windows ScanSnap On the Mac Using VirtualBox

In the past I have posted about how to use Japanese ScanSnap drivers, and have posted that the new Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 and S1500M will be cross-platform, but what if you don’t want to mess around with foreign drivers or have an older ScanSnap scanner? if you have access to a Windows XP CD, there [...]

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Fujitsu ScanSnap in Linux

There was a discussion recently on Twitter over whether the ScanSnap was supported in Linux. Out of the box, none of the models come with Linux drivers – the S510 and S300 come with Windows software, and the S510 and S300M come with Mac OSX software. However, there is a project called SANE – Scanner [...]

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