According to the Mozy blog, the online backup company has just updated their Mac client. The biggest functionality that they have added is the ability to exclude types of files from your backup. Seems like pretty critical functionality for a backup client but hey, who am I to judge? Here’s a list of the enhancements […]
Continue readingThis one is for the Mac users out there. Anyone who has used Mac OSX, whether they know it or not, has probably used Preview (or as Mac-heads call it, Preview.app) at some point. Any time you double click on an image or PDF, it is probably Preview that is starting up to view it. […]
Continue readingOver at Fujitsu’s ScanSnap Community site, they have a helpful tutorial that walks you through how to create a scanned version of your signature for use in emails, documents, etc. First, sign a blank page. Then scan the page and save it to a JPEG (if you want more info on how to do this, […]
Continue readingDid you know that datacenters worldwide use up as much energy as Sweden? Neither did I, but it is one of the many things I learned from this awesome post by Mozy from a few weeks ago where they put together a bunch of stats to show how much data a petabyte actually is. Awesome! […]
Continue readingWell, that didn’t take long. Just 13 days after my post about making PDFs searchable before uploading to Evernote, they went ahead and added that feature for Premium users yesterday. Starting now, if you are a premium user and you upload a PDF, Evernote will OCR it on the backend and make it searchable. If […]
Continue readingOne complaint that people have with the PDFs that Acrobat kicks out when doing OCR, either by doing it manually or via an Acrobat OCR Applescript, is that the files can get really big. There are a few solutions to this, but one of them is to change the PDF Output Style. The default that […]
Continue readingYes, I do realize that this is the second ScanSnap Evernote post in a row. I just realized that I had somehow not blogged about this contest that Evernote is having in July where they are giving away 4 Fujitsu ScanSnap S300 scanners. Here is how to enter from their blog post: * Follow […]
Continue readingUpdate: Of course, a few days after I posted this, Evernote announced that they would make PDFs searchable for Premium users. So if you are not a Premium user, this will help. Otherwise, just upload away. One of the most popular posts on this site is on how to use the Fujitsu ScanSnap with Evernote. […]
Continue readingPhoto by sillygwailo One of the slightly annoying things about ScanSnap Manager is that in the UI, it doesn’t tell you what the image quality settings relate to in dots per inch (dpi) terms. If you for whatever reason need to be scanning at a certain dpi, it’s not immediately obvious which to choose. The […]
Continue readingPhoto by Editor B DocumentSnap reader Stuart wrote in because he was having problems scanning checks (or cheques, if you are in Canada or the UK) using his ScanSnap in to his bank’s interface for electronic deposit. I don’t know if this is specific to USAA or not, but here are the bank’s requirements for […]
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