One alternative, if you're a cheapskate like me: 1. Cheap scanner. These can still be had--I got a Lexmark X73 about six months ago, at a close-out Christmas sale at Best Buy, for $99. It's actually a multi-function printer, and one of the nice things is that Lexmark has pretty decent Mac OS X drivers for it. Of course there's no guarantees, given the pace of Apple's OS X changes, that companies such as Lexmark will keep pumping out updated drivers. One of the reasons I have been so fearful about upgrading to Panther.
2. Get a Gmail account. Gmail.com is still in beta and so you'll need to find a friend who has a spare "invite" that they can give you to join the beta program. This is Google's free email account, it has 1 GB of free storage. The search feature is of course fantastic--so what I would do is compose an email with whatever keywords you want to use, attach the scanned image, and then mail it to your Gmail account. Then when you need to retrieve it you can search on Gmail. I'm doing something similar today with my work email--our darned Exchange admins have a 50 MB limit on our mailboxes which fills up pretty fast. Plus the Outlook/Exchange searching is abysmal. So I forward all my important work emails to Gmail, and then I can search them in a snap whenever I need to find something. --- Rex. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Harry Jacobson-Beyer Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 10:58 AM To: Macusergroup Subject: MacGroup: FWD: Article and Idea LCS member Andy Arnold emailed me the other day with a suggestion for a meeting topic. Here is his suggestion: >Here is an idea for a meeting (I don't know if anyone has any expertise >in this area tho). I am constantly tearing out magazine, newspaper and >other articles to save for my library. Also keep receipts, statemetns, >etc... It occupies so much space. There used to be a program for Mac >called Paperport (it is PC only now) that when used with a little >strobe scanner, could convert stacks of articles to a digital image to >save on the computer forever. Now that it is no longer available, I >wonder if anyone else has a solution for archiving articles, etc? > >Just some random thoughts. Have a nice day! > >Andy > So my question to the group: Does anyone have a solution for archiving they will share with the group, either over the listserve or (preferably) demoing at a macusergroup meeting. Reply to the list or to me. Thanks. Harry | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be June 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be June 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
