Online backup vendor Carbonite has recently rolled out an update to their client software, Carbonite 4.0. Sadly, the Carbonite 4.0 update is for Windows only, but the company has stated that the Mac version is in the works. If you’re an existing Carbonite customer, they’re in the process of rolling out the update. If you’re […]
Continue readingSometimes you just want a way to get text out of an image, whether it is a PDF you’ve downloaded, a document you want to scan, or even one from your digital camera or smartphone. There are a number of ways to do this, but one free way on Windows is to use TopOCR. As […]
Continue readingRecently I wrote about how to combine PDF files using Mac OSX, so today I’d like to give Windows the same treatment. Of course, there are a huge number of applications out there that will do this, and if I had any brains I’d point you to some expensive one that would get me a […]
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There are some products that inspire love and devotion. Users sing their praises whenever they can. One such product is the Fujitsu ScanSnap. Another is Microsoft OneNote. Here’s how to scan to OneNote with the ScanSnap. Creating A Notebook OneNote uses the concept of Notebooks to store notes in. When you first install it there […]
Continue readingA 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 […]
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 readingAs we posted earlier, Windows 7 support wasn’t quite there for ScanSnap when the new operating system was released, and the Windows 7 Update for ScanSnap S1500 and S300 was released in December. Yesterday, Fujitsu sent out a bulletin that the updates for the ScanSnap S510 and S500 have been released. From the email: The […]
Continue readingWell, Microsoft’s latest version of Windows, Windows 7, gets released today. Similar to what we did with OSX Snow Leopard, I thought I’d make a post so that we can share our experiences using the Fujitsu ScanSnap with it. I haven’t seen anything official from Fujitsu, but if I had to guess I would say […]
Continue readingIn 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 […]
Continue readingUpdate: It’s confirmed that the ScanSnap S1500 and S1500M include both drivers on the install CD. See this ScanSnap Cross-Platform post for more info. The rest of this post relates to the S510 and s300 series. According to commenter “rei” on this ScanSnap S1500 post, the next version of the Fujitsu ScanSnap is going to […]
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