Best Time To Buy A Laptop? Doxie Scanner Rocks, Encrypted Storage, CamelCamelCamel, OpenStreetMaps | Tokyo
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Axcrypt will update encoded file when you update original
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Great show! Later
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I've only very recently started using a cell phone (Moto G 2013 woot!) and it took me a while to start actually trusting Google Maps for my travels. I got so used to having the maps talk to me and basically drive me everywhere. Then I realized you could download offline maps and I was so lost, not knowing how to use just a plain map with nothing speaking to me....haha.
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Kroger raises their prices then has a sale making you think things are cheaper. I hate that people do that.
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You can burn a DVD (even a CD) with your documents ...
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I don't use scanners anymore, just use CamScanner+ app its much more portable and flexible.
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Turn off the screen to start fixing things?! But how do I learn to fix it without looking it up on YouTube?! Seriously, I've become my own personal plumber, mechanic, appliance, furniture, etc repairman thanks to the tubes.
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You can also use veracrypt and dropbox for example to store encrypted documents. Say you only have the 2GB of free space. Just create a veracrypt volume of more or less that size, add you files to it and sync it. The first sync will be the longest but once you start modifying files on your mounted volume, dropbox will only sync the portion of the volume that has changed, not in realtime though but once you unmount it it's reallly fast.
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Hi, In addition to the to the scanner, finding a document could be frustrating if you are trying to search after 2 years. I use Mendeley (https://www.mendeley.com/) for achieving this task, it has its own great OCR and that not only search the file name but also within the document. Keep the great work, Kapil
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how about scanners for linux?
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We've been using Fujitsu Scansnap's for about 8 years now. Pretty rock solid. Double sided scanning, auto rotation, fast.
Probably have about 20 of them at this point scattered across all our offices around the state. I think the current model is the iX500, we still have some of the previous model as well still in use and still working today. -
I need to put a crank position sensor on my old 89 Jeep Cherokee 4.0L. Real pain in the ass to get to that thing.
BTW on last weeks analog tip I listened to Master Of Puppets all the way through. -
to encrypt dropbox/google drive files i'd use something like encfs or boxcryptor, which mount as volumes like truecrypt/veracrypt, but encrypt each file on its own. So only the changed/new file has to be uploaded instead of the whole volume
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Here in the Midwest openstreetmap is almost useless. Very basic and lots of missing info :(
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Hi Shannon,
Have you thought of trying the HooToo Travel Router as its also a portable battery pack?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/HooToo-Wireless-Companion-10400mAh-External/dp/B00VBAE5Y0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=U -
Firefoxy !
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great show
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what mobi does snubs have there
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one way to add extra drives to a laptop is to find one that has a optical drive. you can normally find a optical drive to HDD adapter and use that to add an extra HDD to a machine