Most people know that Carbonite is a good solution for backing up your PC or Mac. However, what a lot of people don’t know is that you can also access your backed-up files on the go. A while ago, Carbonite rolled out their new Remote File Access feature. To access it, go the Carbonite homepage. […]
Continue readingI’ve been interacting with Tim Haughton (@documentmanager) quite a bit on Twitter lately, and he let me know that one of the most requested features of Home Document Manager has now been implemented – it now works with the Fujitsu ScanSnap. Uses A Watch Folder Traditionally, Home Document Manager has worked with TWAIN scanners, which […]
Continue readingOne thing I should mention amongst all the posts about whether the ScanSnap is compatible with Snow Leopard. Back on August 26, NeatWorks for Mac version 2.1.7 was released that makes the software compatible with Snow Leopard. From their blog post on the topic: The next major release of NeatWorks, slated for the fall of […]
Continue readingOne 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”. […]
Continue readingUpdate 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 […]
Continue readingAs 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 […]
Continue readingSo 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 […]
Continue readingLike 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 […]
Continue readingOne 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 […]
Continue readingTad 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 […]
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