I was fortunate enough to get my hands on a review copy of a Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300, so I thought I’d write up my initial impressions and show some of the new stuff that DocumentSnap readers might find interesting. As of this writing I have only installed it on Mac OSX, but as I wrote […]
Continue readingRecently the Evernote blog posted a really cool tip for searching your Evernote notes from inside your browser. Basically, you tell Chrome or Firefox to use Evernote as a new search engine, which you can then search with in the address bar. Google Chrome’s address bar doubles as a search bar, which makes it really […]
Continue readingWe’ve written a few times here on DocumentSnap about Pixily, a document management and scanning service that will let you physically send your paper documents and upload them to their service, and then securely manage the scanned files online. We’ve just gotten word that they have changed their name to OfficeDrop. Why did they change […]
Continue readingAs many of you know, in 2008 I posted an Applescript that will use Adobe Acrobat to make PDFs searchable using Acrobat’s OCR capabilities. In the comments to that post, user nodis pointed out that adding 2 words to one of the lines can make the PDFs quite a bit smaller. In my testing, I […]
Continue readingWell, it’s official – the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300 has been announced and much like Eddie Murphy, it is coming to America. You might remember a while ago I saw it on Amazon Japan and posted about it. Well, now no need to wait for it to come to the US. It’s announced. I don’t see […]
Continue readingAs much of a paperless geek that I am, I normally wouldn’t sit and watch a video of someone scanning and shredding paper. However, I just wanted to point you to this YouTube video by user allenday. He’s got a really cool setup of a ScanSnap S300M, Adobe Acrobat, a Mac Mini, a wall-mounted Sharp […]
Continue readingSo you read all this great stuff about how the Fujitsu ScanSnap is awesome and creates searchable PDFs, and you’re on a Mac and want a portable scanner, so you drop the cash on a ScanSnap S300M. Then you get it home and find out – wait a minute – the S300M doesn’t come with […]
Continue readingIf you’re a Carbonite online backup customer, they’ve released yet another way to get at your files when away from your computer. The company has released a Carbonite iPhone App (it works on iPod Touches as well). From the CEO of Carbonite: The Carbonite app gives me access to the backed up files from each […]
Continue readingOne common comment about Evernote is that the service is awesome, but people wish that it supported encryption of notes or notebooks. To address this, Evernote introduced the ability to encrypt text inside a note, but for those that want something a bit more comprehensive, here is a 2 part guide on how to encrypt […]
Continue readingBack 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 […]
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