Three years ago, I started using a program to help me deal with text I was typing repetitively. That’s when I actually started getting more into what helpers were out there in the composition of documents and emails.

It’s important to save time to get other things done, and if you’re not constantly examining what you’re doing, to find out what’s taking all your time, you’re going to fall behind the curve. You have to be able to find the problem areas and make adjustments To improve.

But this process is getting so much easier by the day. There’s so many tools and applications out there right now that can help users on the projects of composing papers, documents, emails, suggesting better phrases and many more…

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Since I downloaded the Windows Live Writer beta, I

have been in almost complete disgust with the lack of attention it received in the 18+ month vacation from development.

While I think Windows Live Writer is the best offline blogging application on the Internet, it seems to be missing it’s market; it’s missing that die hard blogger spirit that sparked the development of the application in the first place.

It’s almost like the people who write Windows Live Writer don’t understand what they’re doing, or don’t care, or don’t understand the drive, inspiration and needs of the bloggers anymore…

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Recently Facebook announced that he was opening up access to its chat protocol. this means that just about any instant messenger using the jabber protocol and interface with Facebook. This makes much more sense than having to try to maintain so many different types of interfaces and protocols just for instant messaging.

The Jabber protocol supports so many different functions and its universal, and it’s free. there’s no reason not to utilize that protocol; it’s been long enough and it’s time to standardize.

I wish all the major IM providers would start to understand that the old instant messengers and their proprietary protocols are becoming the way of the past.

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Mozilla Thunderbird is not one of the applications that I would consider outstanding from a vanilla installation. What make Thunderbird exceptional is its ability to have extensions; to make the program be more than what it is. To have functions that it wouldn’t normally have…

This is where you can think of third-party providers for developing and supporting Thunderbird in making it so extremely popular with its users.

Up to about two months ago I’ve been struggling with the idea of converting off of Thunderbird onto something else. It’s difficult to come to a decision to switch to different software package after you’ve been using something for so long and have become so accustomed to using.

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Windows Live Writer has just been handed a plug-in to allow the posting to Posterous. It just hit the web about 4 hours ago.

Scott Lovegrove created the plug-in and 5 lucky people were able to download and test the functionality. It think this will be widely used.

At the time of this post, the plug-in is not listed in the Windows Live Writer Gallery, but I’d suspect it’ll be there soon.

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So how many iPhone users are out there were sweating the launch of DROID?

Well you should be… your fancy iPhone is on it’s way out the door. [I hear the boo’s and hissing now] AND it’s not so much Apple’s fault…

The iPhone is an excellent piece of hardware and it’s presentation and abilities set the new standard for ‘personal access devices’ or Smartphone’s, but…

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Just about all new scanners are coming with Auto Document Feeder (ADF) functionality. And if you aren’t scanning your stuff yet for quick reference or long term storage, you really should.

But you can really take advantage of having these types of documents scanned in and sometimes you need to be able to get the text out of them; that’s when you need optical character recognition (OCR).

If you’ve ever run in to this situation where you’ve a fax or a scanned document and you need to have some or all it it retyped so you can do something with it, you’re going to be glad you’ve a tool like SimpleOCR…

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This is a ‘techie’ review of PaperPort 12 Professional. Meaning it’s a review coming from someone that’s used PaperPort for years and is familiar with company and private use of the application. This is not a regurgitation of corporate brochures and handouts telling you about a product.

I’ve been using PaperPort since version 6; it came with a scanner [Visioneer] along time ago. I’ve never been able to find something quite as unique as PaperPort in the aspect of how it handles documents, images and other snippets of information AND in the range of affordability as PaperPort.

This is what I found…

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