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DocumentWallet Released
Today I released DocumentWallet, a product similar in concept to my ReceiptWallet program. The two programs share much of the same code, but I felt that they needed to be separate applications. The market for this type of program is quite crowded and I own a few of the "competition", but didn't find any one of them to meet my needs. I hope that others feel the same way. I think I've done some clever sales tactics by offering it for 50% off for ReceiptWallet customers. I also decided not to penalize people that buy one and then want to buy the other. Some vendors give you a great deal for a bundle, but if you don't buy it then, tough luck. I now choose to run my business in a way that my customers want to come back. Having an easy to use product should make it easier to sell than some of my past products. I hope it sells well.
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Upper body pain - huh?
Today after my run (training has begun for my 2nd marathon), I started to feel pain in my upper body. This doesn't happen after a run so I started thinking, what could cause this? Then I remembered I started playing my Nintendo Wii 2 days ago. While I haven't played with it much, the swinging action is doing a number on me. I thought I was in decent shape, but it's making me work in a way I didn't expect. Thanks Nintendo!
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A solution to an annoying ScanSnap issue
I've now had my Fujitsu ScanSnap fi-511E0XM for less than a day now and one thing that I found quite annoying is that if I wanted to scan between scanning to ReceiptWallet and to another application, say preview, I had to go into the ScanSnap Manager preferences (sorry, settings), and change the app. The app has a dock menu, so it wouldn't have been rocket science to let me switch between apps from the menu. So, with a point in the right direction from a colleague, I present ScanHelper. ScanHelper is a small application that places a menu in the menubar that lets you select which application should be used for scanning. Simply tell the ScanSnap Manager to use ScanHelper and then ScanHelper routes the scans to the selected application. You can now easily select a destination right from the menubar. I'm releasing this as free software, but if you like it, please buy my ReceiptWallet application. You can download ScanHelper here.
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Digging up the past can sometimes be a good thing
I was contacted today by someone looking for a real early version of Eudora for Newton (prior to 1996) to prove that someone's patent claim of email on a handheld is invalid. That's pretty amazing to me that someone would actually attempt to claim email on a handheld so late as Eudora for Newton wasn't the first; there was eWorld and the Motorola Marco which pre-dated Eudora for Newton. As I was searching and digging up stuff, I came across a press release announcing that Eudora Pro for Newton won a CES Innovations award in 1997 (that's 10 years ago!). I either forgot about the award or no one ever told me about it. I wasn't at CES to receive the award (I've never been to CES, I was at Comdex for one day the prior year, I think), but I guess that's what happens in a big company. I was the sole author of the product, so I guess I can claim the award as my own.