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Scan to your iPhone
Fujitsu subsidiary PFU has introduced a free
app for its ScanSnap scanners that allows
users to scan paper documents straight
to an iPhone or iPad simply by clicking on
the ‘Scan-to-Mobile’ button in ScanSnap
software’s Quick Menu. The app can also be
used to scan documents and contact data
into Salesforce CRM, Salesforce Chatter and
SugarSync Personal Cloud. The software is
available for the ScanSnap S1100, S1300,
S1500 and S1500M, which can already be
integrated with Evernote and Google Docs.
http://scansnap.fujitsu.com/g-support/en/
Friends reinvited
Make the most of your investment in social media with a
new back-up and search tool, SocialSafe Enterprise, that
stores information from Twitter and Facebook pages (e.g.
details of friends/followers, photos and tagged photos) on
your PC. Saved data can be reviewed, searched and analysed
– using a new digital diary feature you can even review all
online activity on a specified date. Should an account be lost,
hacked or de-activated, the data can be used to re-build a
page and re-invite friends/followers. An annual subscription
to the Enterprise version costs £19.99.
www.socialsafe.net/tour
Cloud storage search engine has
universal appeal
Do you struggle to manage all your files, documents,
emails, photos, videos, music and social content spread
over numerous devices, web services and social media
sites, all with separate log-ins and passwords? If you do,
ZeroPC2.0 could be just the thing for you.
This free ‘content navigator for the cloud’ makes cross-
platform content accessible from a browser and easy to
search, edit, move, share and backup – all from one place
with one login.
The universal search engine lets you search files, folders,
documents, photos, videos, music and hard-to-find social
content (including friends’ content) stored in popular sites
such as Box.net, Dropbox, Evernote, Facebook, Flickr, Google
Docs, Instagram, Picasa and SugarSync.
Without leaving ZeroPC, you can select and view
content from its original site, edit, move, share or backup
single folders, or do a comprehensive backup. ZeroPC2.0
provides users with 1GB of free general cloud storage,
plus up to 59GB of integrated access from popular cloud
storage services. Paid users can create one-time or recurring
backups of their cloud content and can easily restore
content.
ZeroPC2.0’s Cloud Dashboard lets you analyse your
content by category, including documents, photos, music,
videos and others; see how much and where free space is
available; and drag and drop content between services.
Zero PC has also launched an app for Android tablets,
ZeroPC Cloud Navigator, and will shortly be launching a
version for the iPad.
www.zeropc.com
Build your own cloud
The CloudStation from Buffalo
Technology allows users to create their
own personal cloud where they can store,
access and share multimedia content
with anyone who has access to the
internet. You can even give friends space
to store and access files of their own.
Powered by Pogoplug, the CloudStation
is available with capacities of 2TB or
4TB and can display PDF, Excel,Word
and PowerPoint documents without any
additional software. A 26-digit personal
identifier code and encryption for cloud
access keeps content safe and secure.
In addition, Buffalo has announced a
number of USB 3.0 hard drives with data
transfer speeds of 5Gbps and 256-bit AES
Full Disk Encryption. These include the
portable MiniStation Extreme, which has
passed free-fall drop tests of up to 2.3
metres and comes in capacities of 500GB
and 1TB; and the desktop DriveStation
Velocity, which can transfer 1,000 digital
photos in just 6.8 seconds.
www.buffalo-technology.com
Visioneer enhances
scan quality
automatically
Visioneer has brought out new
software to improve the quality of
scanned documents at point of capture,
improving OCR accuracy and reducing
the need to make manual corrections.
Included in new Visioneer and Xerox
Documate scanners, Visioneer Acuity
can detect the colour and size of pages,
remove blank pages and rotate images
based on content. It automatically cleans
up black and white output using dynamic
threshold and de-speckling and offers a
choice of manual controls such as the
ability to drop unnecessary colours or
choose different settings for particular
document types.
Users of existing Visioneer and Xerox
DocuMate scanners can download
Visioneer Acuity from
www.visioneer.com.
Nuance adds support for DSS
The Digital Speech Standard (DSS) audio format, a digital voice recording standard
for professional speech processing jointly developed by Grundig, Olympus and
Philips, is now fully supported in Nuance’s Dragon
NaturallySpeaking speech recognition software.
This means that voice files recorded in Digital Speech
Standard (.dss) or Digital Speech Standard Pro (.ds2) formats
can be transcribed directly by Dragon (Premium and higher)
without prior conversion to another voice file format.
DSS files have a high compression rate for reduced file
size, network traffic and storage requirements; and allow
additional information, such as client/patient name and
document type to be stored in the file header for ease of
organisation. The DSS Pro (.ds2) format also supports file
encryption.
www.nuance.com