MS-Windows Platform and Mac OS X Platform and Tips & Tricks Tobi on 18 Aug 2010
The basic idea and setup is described here, however, many details are missing, so I put together detailed instructions with screenshots. I am describing the configuration between a Mac running Leopard and a Windows 95 Machine.
MS-Windows Platform and Mac OS X Platform and Software and Tips & Tricks and Workflow Tobi on 27 Dec 2009
The ScanSnap S1500M (but also the S1500 as well as the earlier models S510 and S510M) comes with ABBYY FineReader for OCR support. This is great for creating searchable PDFs. Especially handy on a Mac with Spotlight. The problem is that in the default setup, each scan is OCRed right after the scan and depending [...]
MS-Windows Platform and Mac OS X Platform Tobi on 13 Jan 2009
Excerpt form an Ars Technica Article on the Windows 7 UI: An icon on the taskbar doesn’t necessarily mean that a program is running; programs can be pinned to the taskbar so that their icon is persistent. Clicking the icon starts the program (if it’s not running) or switches to it (if it is). …featured [...]
MS-Windows Platform and Mac OS X Platform and Telecommunications and Tips & Tricks Tobi on 10 Oct 2008
While there are multiple software solutions that cost money, I prefer the free alternatives. In this case it comes in the form of Mozilla Thunderbird, and to be more precise, the Windows version. Thunderbird’s import function imports your current Microsoft Outlook folders including attachments and all. It also has options for Outlook Express and other [...]
MS-Windows Platform and Software Tobi on 10 Oct 2008
If you regularly use Adobe Acrobat Reader on Windows then I am sure you have come across the problem that certain documents load and display unacceptably slow, even on a fast dual or quad core CPU and on machines with ample memory. In particular, I am talking about quickly scrolling through a graphics or photo [...]
MS-Windows Platform and Tips & Tricks Tobi on 15 Sep 2008
If like me you have two monitors connected to your MS-Windows laptop at work, I am sure you have experienced the nuisance of “loosing” your application windows. Basically, the window manager appears to be smart enough to remember a window position, i.e., which monitor it was on last, but too dumb to realize that that [...]
MS-Windows Platform and Tips & Tricks Tobi on 14 Jul 2008
This morning MS-Office SP3 was pushed onto my machine, and afterwards I noticed that all my former “.mat” files were missing their file extension and were identified as “Microsoft Office Access Table Shortcut” as can be verified by looking at Tools -> Folder Options -> File Types. Deletion of this file association, and creation of [...]