Just read over on the Evernote Blog that the company has reached three million users as of the end of April. We’ve got a pretty sophisticated monitoring system at the Evernote datacenter that’s constantly watching over our servers, databases and load balancers. At the slightest hint of trouble, it sends out pre-configured alerts and our […]
Continue readingI was just talking from Tim over at Dokix Inc. He’s the guy behind Home Document Manager, which I have written about before. He let me know that his product PDF Scan Pro, which is a Windows program that takes documents from your scanner and converts them to searchable PDFs (with a bunch of document […]
Continue readingMost of you know that I typically use Macs more than Windows, but in the process of doing some consulting work (more on that later), I have been spending more time using the Windows programs that come with the Fujitsu ScanSnap. For starters, I want to say that I really like ScanSnap Organizer. I wish […]
Continue readingUpdate April 5, 2011: ScanDrop has made some changes, including a Mac version. Read about the ScanDrop cloud scanning updates here. The folks at OfficeDrop (formerly Pixily) are usually known for their scanning and online document management service, but they’ve just released a cool new application called ScanDrop which allows you to use almost any […]
Continue readingPhoto by jaaron In my line of work (that is to say, hanging out in my basement) I don’t get a lot of business cards. Since I’ve had a few questions recently about which software to use for business cards, I thought I’d throw it out to you guys to see if you have any […]
Continue readingMark Frauenfelder of MAKE and Boing Boing fame has a good post over on the Creditbloggers blog comparing his experience using both the ScanSnap S1500 and Shoeboxed to store his paper records digitally. Which is better? As usual it depends on you and your personality type and the time you have available, but I’ll […]
Continue readingI recently had a DocumentSnap reader send this question in, but since I am travelling at the moment I thought I’d open it up for the rest of you to chime in. Here is the question: I’m trying to find a solution for a paperless office….for customer contracts and other documents… We need to scan […]
Continue readingA large percentage of posts here on DocumentSnap are relating to creating or processing PDF files in some way. However, there’s a dark side to PDFs – or more specifically, using outdated PDF reading software on your computer. The Lawyerist blog has a writeup on the topic, and points to a scary ZDNet article that […]
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 […]
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