You may have already noticed — but just in case you haven’t — Karl and I have been writing at a blog called Digital Documents for the past few months. It’s a blog with an electronic document theme that covers a whole range of relevant technologies and concepts from PDF, XML, XPS, Flash to eBooks, hardware, [...]
The single most important thing to remember when using a personal document management system, is that you actually need to use it, for it to be effective. That means you need to set a few rules and stick to them — when a new file comes in, you need to add it to the document [...]
I don’t own a fax machine, never have, and never will. But that doesn’t mean I can’t send and receive faxes. For the past few years we’ve been using a service called jConnect Premier to send and receive faxes via email. It’s pretty simple – you just have to type in a From and To [...]
For the past few years I have been asking my bank why I couldn’t receive bank statements electronically via email, instead of receiving paper statements through the post. The advantage of doing things the electronic way, were obvious to me, but apparently not to my bank. Then today, to my great surprise, I logged into [...]
A recent report by market intelligence company IDC revealed that 60% of responding Australian businesses produced more paper print-outs today than they had five years ago. This figure makes the eager projections of the early noughties look rather optimistic. The problem? According to the report, poor planning and implementation of electronic document management systems underpin [...]
We’re happy to announce that we now have a Technical Preview of Benubird available for download. Our goal is for Benubird to redefine a way of storing, managing and retrieving documents (and other types of files too) — regardless of wherever they’re stored within your system or network. Well, that’s our goal anyway. Give Benubird [...]
How to keep documents digital from day one…
Keeping on the “less-paper” theme — we’re constantly on the lookout for ways to keep paper as trees, and not churning out of printers. Which is why we were pleased to see that long-time PDF expert, Shlomo Perets of MicroType, has just posted a “How-To” article showing how to allow comments to be posted in [...]