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I use Evernote for that purpose. Let me recommend the Evernote ScanSnap. It's perfect for document archiving.
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SEKCobra posted:I want to get rid of paper, so Imma start scanning bills and letters, is there some sorta document storage software to manage them afterwards? Evernote is probably your best bet in terms of organizing all of your scanned documents. You could also go the route of having an encrypted folder or drive for storing all of it as well.
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FWIW I switched from evernote to onenote because I was mad at evernote for some reason and I kind of regret the move.
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That new Office Lens app is cool for snapping documents (still in Beta though)
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NevergirlsOFFICIAL posted:FWIW I switched from evernote to onenote because I was mad at evernote for some reason and I kind of regret the move. tbf evernote does feel godawful to use; it's a shame that the apps that curb stomp it in UI design all seem to be missing one or two features that I just about can't live without
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Evernote is really good if you can set it up in a way that works for you and use it regularly, otherwise you just forget about it for 3 months after using it for a week, repeatedly.
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SEKCobra posted:So do I use Evernote now or not I think if you're starting from nothing, and you're the only one using it, use onenote if you're going to be sharing this with other people in the household then evernote probably will work better.
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Oh wait this is cloud software? I'd rather just keep my stuff locally.
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SEKCobra posted:Oh wait this is cloud software? I'd rather just keep my stuff locally. It's a Notepad/Journaling information management system. I've been using it daily for almost two years now professionally and it's really great and flexible. Use it. It is software that you download and it syncs transparently with the Cloud, it is a Good Thing
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SEKCobra posted:Oh wait this is cloud software? I'd rather just keep my stuff locally. with both evernote and onenote you can make local notebooks that don't sync but (at least with evernote) you need to authenticate with The Cloud.
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I thought that evernote was paid only?
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Squish posted:I thought that evernote was paid only? you can pay for noads and some other extra things. I don't know what the diff between free and paid is because I was paid until I stopped using it. But the base is free.
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I need to convert a M4A file to specifically a 8 KHz/16bit/MONO .WAV Is there any software that will do this?
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:I need to convert a M4A file to specifically a 8 KHz/16bit/MONO .WAV Audacity should be able to do this.
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:I need to convert a M4A file to specifically a 8 KHz/16bit/MONO .WAV Foobar2000 or the previously recommended Audacity.
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:I need to convert a M4A file to specifically a 8 KHz/16bit/MONO .WAV Mediacoder if you want to twiddle every single knob in existence. Warning: possibly steep learning curve.
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Is there a tool that's good at analyzing just what's destroying your computer's available memory?
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ilifinicus posted:Is there a tool that's good at analyzing just what's destroying your computer's available memory? Like task manager?
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Thanks for all the audio recommendations! Audacity did the trick. Different question: is there any simple way to send emails to a specified address/service which will then forward them to specific people based on keywords contained in the email and also adding custom text? So, for example, if the body of the email contains the word "Sally" it will forward that email to "sally@company.com" with the message "Sally, you should check this out". I'm not trying to spam anyone, our PBX sends emails to people when they have a new voicemail but the canned text is in English and I need it to be in other languages (at just to inform people they have a new voicemail). We use Google Apps so I can do the first part fairly easily with filters, but it's adding the extra text which is tricky.
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ilifinicus posted:Is there a tool that's good at analyzing just what's destroying your computer's available memory? Process explorer is like task manager, but better: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
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My wife's mother has takes a large amount of pictures and as a result of this, has a single folder with a very large number of images files saved in it. My wife wants to do something nice and organize the pictures in this folder by year and month. So there would be a folder for each year, and this folder would contain a subfolder for each month. Each of these subfolders would contain all the pictures taken in that month/year. Is there any software that will do this? I've tried googling "image organization software" but as you might imagine, the number of results is quite large and it's hard to tell what's real and what's just some junky bloatware. Any recommendations?
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If it were me I'd write a short program that does that
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Baloogan posted:If it were me I'd write a short program that does that Well don't let me stop ya... ![]()
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Mr. Clark2 posted:My wife's mother has takes a large amount of pictures and as a result of this, has a single folder with a very large number of images files saved in it. My wife wants to do something nice and organize the pictures in this folder by year and month. So there would be a folder for each year, and this folder would contain a subfolder for each month. Each of these subfolders would contain all the pictures taken in that month/year. http://www.mjbpix.com/automatically-move-photos-to-directories-or-folders-based-on-exif-date/ haven't used it, looks ok. If you're worried, download it and submit it to VirusTotal. This is also the sort of thing that you could probably get someone to do for you for free at donationcoder.com.
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Mr. Clark2 posted:My wife's mother has takes a large amount of pictures and as a result of this, has a single folder with a very large number of images files saved in it. My wife wants to do something nice and organize the pictures in this folder by year and month. So there would be a folder for each year, and this folder would contain a subfolder for each month. Each of these subfolders would contain all the pictures taken in that month/year. I made a Powershell script that will sort the contents of a directory according to the last modified date. This will sort everything in the directory, not just pictures, so handle with care. 1) Install PowerShell, if your version of windows didn't come with it already installed. 2) Dump all your images/files to be sorted into one directory. 3) Copy this code to a .txt file, rename it to "Sort by Date.ps1" drop it in the directory to be sorted, right click and run. code:
Avulsion fucked around with this message at 10:47 on May 5, 2015 |
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Is there a good PDF creator/editor out there that is also free? PDFArchitect recently locked down the most useful features and I don't use them enough to justify actually spending money on them.
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Mr. Clark2 posted:My wife's mother has takes a large amount of pictures and as a result of this, has a single folder with a very large number of images files saved in it. My wife wants to do something nice and organize the pictures in this folder by year and month. So there would be a folder for each year, and this folder would contain a subfolder for each month. Each of these subfolders would contain all the pictures taken in that month/year. Have you taken a look at Google's Picasa? It has this kind of organisation, if you can ignore all the Google Gets Into Everything integration (which, thankfully isn't too intrusive in this program). It has a really neat facial recognition algorithm that you can use to identify and search/sort photos according to detected faces.
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Squish posted:Have you taken a look at Google's Picasa? It has this kind of organisation, if you can ignore all the Google Gets Into Everything integration (which, thankfully isn't too intrusive in this program). It has a really neat facial recognition algorithm that you can use to identify and search/sort photos according to detected faces. Picasa was one of the first programs my wife looked at when starting this and the Google Gets Into Everything integration is what made her immediately uninstall it.
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I guess Mrs. Clark2 could block it via firewall? The faces recognition thing is pretty handy.
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I'm looking for the best FREE video player. Preferably something that supports a ton of codecs, easy to use, and you can play multiple videos at the same time. I like windows media player but you can only have 1 video playing at a time right? Err totally forgot about VLC, guess I'll give that a shot. 10bux fucked around with this message at 20:39 on May 10, 2015 |
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Yup VLC is still king as far as I know Hasn't followed the trend of being an awesome free program for a long time and then all the sudden costing $50 or being full of ads/spyware
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Video players were discussed somewhat recently in the regular Windows Software thread starting around here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3137721&pagenumber=558&perpage=40#post443012542
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If you want something that just works with no hassle, VLC is fine, but I prefer PotPlayer with LAV/XY/MadVR for video/audio quality. You can get an easy to install setup with MPC-HC and the other parts by using Kawaii Codec Pack (ignore the anime name).
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I like CCCP for everything. I have and it tends to update often too. There's always the built-in MS media player if you don't want to deal w/third-party programs.
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Alder posted:I like CCCP for everything. I have and it tends to update often too. There's always the built-in MS media player if you don't want to deal w/third-party programs. CCCP hasn't been updated in 10 months. KCP is a more frequently updated version.
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SymmetryrtemmyS posted:CCCP hasn't been updated in 10 months. KCP is a more frequently updated version. I had some issues with CCCP and embedded subtitles too - it wouldn't let me change or disable the subtitle track for some formats. K-Lite seems to do all that fine though. Generic Monk fucked around with this message at 00:27 on May 11, 2015 |
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What's a good freeware replacement for Excel? Specifically, I'm looking for something that can find and conditionally format duplicate entries.
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neogeo0823 posted:What's a good freeware replacement for Excel? Specifically, I'm looking for something that can find and conditionally format duplicate entries. Google Docs Spreadsheets is almost identical to Excel except for some of the formulas are different, but there is usually a 1:1 replacement for most things.
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LLJKSiLk posted:Google Docs Spreadsheets is almost identical to Excel except for some of the formulas are different, but there is usually a 1:1 replacement for most things. I'm looking through it right now and I'm not seeing anything to highlight duplicate entries. Am I missing it? neogeo0823 fucked around with this message at 15:25 on May 12, 2015 |
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