Feb 6, 2017 | Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, hardware, LastPass, OneDrive, shopping
Fujitsu has made the best small business scanner for many years. You should have one on the desk of every employee who deals with paper. The Fujitsu iX500 was introduced almost eight years ago. It was designed so well that it is almost unchanged today, and it...
Jan 3, 2017 | Amazon, Android, Apple, Dropbox, Facebook, Google, news, Vista
It’s the ten-year anniversary of one of the most important inflection points in history. 2007 was such an eventful year that its significance seems obvious in hindsight, but it’s gone unremarked until Thomas Friedman spelled it out in a new book. Thomas Friedman, the...
Nov 27, 2016 | Box, Dropbox, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, Office tips, OneDrive, OneNote, Outlook, web_services
A difficult part of using technology in 2016 is simply remembering what tools we have at our disposal. It’s all well and good for me to report on all the swell new programs and services that are available, but that doesn’t do any good if you don’t remember which one...
Oct 17, 2016 | Android, Apple, Dropbox, Google, OneDrive, photos, web_services, Windows10
All the people who have asked me how to manage their photos on a computer are over 40. If you’re under 40 (“young’un” is the technical term), you take several hundred photos a day and it never occurs to you to “manage” them. If you want an old photo, you scroll...
Jul 11, 2016 | Android, Apple, Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, mobile, Office, OneDrive, OneNote, phone, photos, web_services
It has become easy to use your phone for quick scans and to create PDFs on the fly. Find an app to use and remember it when you get a receipt or document that should be scanned on the fly. Each of the major cloud services – Microsoft OneDrive (Office Lens), Box (Box...
Feb 22, 2016 | Android, Apple, Box, Dropbox, games, Microsoft, shopping, software, Windows Phone 8, Windows10
Windows 10 has two new icons on the taskbar. One is Microsoft Edge, the new unfinished web browser that Microsoft should have kept under wraps for a while longer. You’ve noticed that one because the “E” is intentionally designed to resemble the old Internet Explorer...
