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Digsby is effortlessly one of my favorite Instant Messenger applications, but a few weeks ago I just couldn’t handle the amount of Facebook stuff it was throwing in my face. There were pop-up’s and distractions from the application I just found too distracting. And while I could’ve gone in to the settings and turn off a bunch of the notifications; I chose to simply disable the account and go with the Facebook ‘jabber’ Instant Messenger option. I had to find the settings, but after a change or two I had them… Here they are; I’m just sharing this…

Today, Nuance has some news that may get some people excited. Nuance has released a complementary application for the iPad. The new option combines the power of Dragon NaturallySpeaking and PaperPort. With the new application, PaperPort users will be able to create/dictate notes and store them in the PaperPort using cloud storage. PaperPort is already one of the most popular applications for trying to organize your digital library of documents. The application that they’ve released is for the Apple iPad, users are able to capture handwritten, typed and dictated notes. The application also supports saving documents to other cloud services, such as Google docs, box.net, Dropbox and PaperPort Anywhere. In addition to users being able to create notes with the new application, it also have some of the traditional functions of PaperPort such as annotation, highlighting documents and the ability to combine mobile documents all via the web. The application also takes advantage of a growing trend that seems to be coming around in imaging industry; using cameras as document imaging devices. This application allows the users to take pictures using the built-in digital camera in the iPad, and it saves the document as a PDF [an industry-standard].  

Facebook is the most recognizable websites of the Internet and it boasts the largest number of members, at 800,000+ that’s a pretty good number. Last year Facebook made some changes, they were not so good, so Facebook changed them again. And over the years Facebook has become one of those things I tolerate because everyone is on Facebook; family & friends— it’s so common now for people to have a Facebook and be able to know how to use it. It’s become a level of acceptability that everyone agrees on. But there’s a few people that find exception with how Facebook does stuff and takes issue with points where they lack, and where Facebook chooses not to do anything with their site to correct for it. Facebook hadn’t done anything to their site until Google+ came on to the scene and exposed a lot of the short comings of Facebook [CIRCLES, for one].

Cloud storage is something that a lot of companies are trying to get into and there’s plenty of benefit to support the fact that ‘cloud’ storage is beneficial; it’s one of the biggest things that Windows 8 is going to be bringing to the next iteration of the operating system. But if you’re watching the news last week you may have noticed a story about MegaUpload. MegaUpload is a file hosting service that used to host pretty much any type of file online for their users/customers. The quick summary of the story is that MegaUpload was known for storing and hosting a lot of copyrighted material, and the company says that they had policies against hosting copyrighted material or pirated software.

Do you find yourself in awkward situations with friends and family needing you to connect in to their systems and fix their problems? I mean if you don’t have a problem with helping people with their computer problems, but don’t want to be tied down to the desk to be able to help them; you are really going to like TeamViewer 7 and the Android application they offer. I’ve used TeamViewer in the past and found that the interface is so easy to use and the service they offer is top notch; I had never used the Android application before and I figured I had wasted enough time on not using/trying it. So, I got out my Android phone and downloaded the TeamViewer application and I was so completely surprised…