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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.

 

Cloud Computing for Real Estate

Presentation given on 02/17/2011

Download Cloud Computing presentation-02-17-2011

App Inventor - This could be huge

Today Google released App Inventor for Android a tool to facilitate the creation of apps for this growing platform.

While I can't vouch for the power or usability of the tool, strategically is makes sense and serves to help us consumers differentiate between the Apple's iOS and Android platforms.  Given Apple's direction of ridiculously tight command and control over any and every app, Google's approach of open-source tools and choice stands as a breadth of fresh air.

REAL ESTATE: which Real Estate apps would you like to see built?

Google better not be evil - they already dominate the world.

Google = World dominance.  Period. 

This table compares country ranking for Facebook, Twitter and Google in light of some reports showing Facebook surpassing Google in US traffic.

Country	Internet users	Facebook’s pos	Twitter’s pos	Google’s pos	Site at #1
China	360,000,000	Not in top 500	371	3	baidu.com
United States	227,719,000	2	12	1	google.com
Japan	95,979,000	30	20	2	yahoo.co.jp
India	81,000,000	4	11	1	google.co.in
Brazil	67,510,400	16	18	1	google.com.br
Germany	54,229,325	3	11	1	google.de
United Kingdom	46,683,900	2	10	1	google.co.uk
Russia	45,250,000	20	40	4	yandex.ru
France	43,100,134	2	46	1	google.fr
South Korea	37,475,800	5	19	4	naver.com
Iran	32,200,000	58	Not in top 500	1	google.com
Italy	30,026,400	2	30	1	google.it
Indonesia	30,000,000	1	12	2	facebook.com
Spain	29,093,984	2	19	1	google.es
Mexico	27,600,000	4	22	1	google.com.mx
Turkey	26,500,000	2	26	1	google.com.tr
Canada	25,086,000	2	11	1	google.ca
Philippines	24,000,000	1	10	3	facebook.com
Vietnam	21,963,117	8	192	1	google.com.vn
Poland	20,020,362	8	118	1	google.pl
Worldwide	1,733,993,741	2	12	1	google.com

Above: The top 20 countries in terms of internet users, plus worldwide results.

These number are from Facebook may have surpassed Google in the US, but what about other countries? | Royal Pingdom.

The future of mapping - Bing Maps at TED 2010

Microsoft's Bing is poised to overtake Google Maps in creative uses of the mapping user interface.

The implications for real estate are endless. Imagine going from city map to street map, to bird's eye view to street view -- and then walking into a photosynth-powered virtual tour of the interior of a listing. 

Very Real Estate 2.0.

Watch Blaise Aguera y Arcas do his demo:

Major change in Google's China policy - great news

Google is lifting their agreed-upon Chinese censorship and is prepared to walk away from their entire China business after the latest attack originating in China targeting corporate intellectual property and human rights activists working on Chinese issues.  This tells me that: 1) the burden of proof has been met, 2) they don't see these attacks stopping, 3) the government is involved.  Wow.  Remember "don't be evil?" 

Now, who has the guts to follow Google?

A must from the Google Corporate blog:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html

Global Internet Usage - 2008

This graph shows the changing global internet trends as of the end of 2008. I am surprised by how much bandwidth is used by P2P. I almost never see pages in languages other than English, yet maybe I should be looking for that content.
http://ping.fm/fVJOp

Google plans Chrome-based Web operating system | Webware - CNET

The plans are finally and officially in the open.  Google plans Chrome-based Web  operating system.  This will be a game changer in the following way: currently most web developers do not make Chrome compatibility a top priority, but that would have to change.  That means another reason to not build on ActiveX (Internet Explorer exclusive) and favor open standards.