Mac OS X Platform and Software and Tips & Tricks Tobi on 02 Aug 2010
I am truly thankful for this article that explains the best way I have found to configure everything “for maximum happiness” as the author puts it without the slightest bit of exaggeration. See for yourself: http://db.tidbits.com/article/10253 However, I should note that I do modify the approach a little bit for my own purposes. I do [...]
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 [...]
Software and Tips & Tricks Tobi on 17 Oct 2008
When I looked at my iGoogle page today I found a short description under each item. Unfortunately that made the paper longer than one screen so I couln’t view all my items w/o scrolling — very inconvenient. Even worse, there was no immediately clear way to restore the original layout. I tried to click on [...]
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 [...]