John's Technology Blog

Make your own Jumbotron from old PCs or cell phones

Thanks Media Lab.

 

Junkyard Jumbotron from chris csik on Vimeo.

Great infographic example - How to visualize creatively

Kudos to the folks at Nielsen for the refreshing lead infographic on their recent study "Who is Winning the U.S. Smartphone Battle?"

The width of each column indicates OS share, descending from left to right, the color of each block indicates the phone's maker in descending share order, top to bottom.  Sure beats having multiple pie charts.  Nicely done.

Scanning to Evernote from a Brother MFC printer / scanner

As many of you know, I am a huge fan of Evernote, and have been for many years.  I started with it back when the GUI was very different and there was no syncing - imagine that.

However, it is just recently that I configured my Brother MFC-7340 Multi-function to scan DIRECTLY to Evernote.   Prior to this I was using my copier's scan to email function, which requires more steps.

Here are the instructions which can be easily adjusted to work with many other desktop scanners.

 

Start by opening the Brother Control Center from the taskbar or from the Programs menu.  Click Configuration...



 

Choose an unassigned Custom Scan, give the button a name and pick SCAN TO IMAGE...

 

Now use the ADD button to create a new target application.  Find the evernote.exe (evernote.app on a Mac) in your PC's Program Files.  I choose .pdf as my preferred document type.

 

Once added, adjust the quality and interface settings as needed.

 

You are ready to scan to Evernote.