gHacks technology news » scan http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:00:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Scan, Fax and Copy with your mobile phone http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/03/scan-fax-and-copy-with-your-mobile-phone/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/03/scan-fax-and-copy-with-your-mobile-phone/#comments Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:14:36 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/08/03/scan-fax-and-copy-with-your-mobile-phone/ I always thought it would be nice to put the camera that most mobile phones are equipped with to got use and have a software that would make it possible to take a picture of a document and fax or send it to someone using the same phone. I don’t have a fax because I rarely need it but I miss it dearly whenever I need it.

I had to fax some information to Paypal the other day and I had to copy the documents and walk into a store that offered to send papers with their fax. Besides the privacy concerns I lost almost an hour that day just to fax some papers to Paypal. It would be much easier to simply use the camera of a mobile phone to take a picture of the document and send it as a fax or email attachment to the recipient.

I tried two services, one of them free while the other one is a paid service that starts at $4,99 monthly for 10 sheets. Scanr is a free mobile application that supports a wide variety of mobile phones offering a Java and Symbian version of their software. A 1 Megapixel camera is required though.

The only costs are the costs of your wireless carrier. There is no image postprocessing which means that your images could be rather big which would lead to high costs unless you have an unlimited plan.

Comombo is a paid service which offers their application for Java and Symbian as well. The big advantage is the postprocessing of the images which leads to some remarkable results. First the size of the image is reduzed which is always good because you have to send it over the Internet using your mobile phone.

The second advantage is that it increases image quality. It lightens up dark images for instance making the document more readable.

The freeware version is good for 10 pages that can be faxed. All other versions ask for a monthly fee that grant a certain amount of free faxes for that month. I would like to see a one time payment opportunity which gives me a certain amount of faxes that I can send whenever I want to.

This is a good service if you fax regularly and a not so good one if you only do it occasionally.

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Certain file types can be excluded from scan, the default configuration exlcudes dll, sys, vxd and inf files from the scan. You could add more files that are important in your case or remove any of the default ones. You could on the other hand limit the scan to files matching a certain filter. It would be easy to setup a scan that would only scan for images for instance using this filter. (good way to check for duplicates in image collections of 100000+ images)

Last but not least you can leave out files that have a certain file attribute such as read only, system or hidden. System files are excluded from scans by default. A last parameter makes it easy to define a rule that files will not be scanned if the file size exceeds or undercuts a give size.

The lenghts of a scan depends on various factors such as hard drive space, filters that have been set and speed of hard drive. Doublekiller is a clever program that makes it easy to scan through a large list of files and free up disk space in the progress.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/28/remove-duplicate-files/feed/ 5 AVG-Antivirus will continue to be free http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/18/avg-antivirus-will-continue-to-be-free/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/18/avg-antivirus-will-continue-to-be-free/#comments Mon, 18 Dec 2006 07:47:30 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/18/avg-antivirus-will-continue-to-be-free/ I received some emails in the last days of visitors to my site who thought that AVG free would cease to exit on 15. of January 2007. I would like to clear the confusion right away by saying that on this date support for AVG free 7.1 will end but AVG free 7.5 by Grisoft will be available and support is guaranteed. Or as the Grisoft themselves announced it:

GRISOFT is announcing a new version of the AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition. This new 7.5 version with improved performance and full compatibility with the latest Windows Vista version is available. Users that are using AVG Free 7.1 will be provided with a specific dialog, within the next few weeks, with the opportunity to choose the right option fulfilling their needs. AVG Free 7.1 version will be discontinued on 15th of Jan 2007. 

In case that you are still looking for an antivirus solution other than AVG Free I recommend Antivir which is completely free for personal use. I have been using Antivir for some time now and have not encountered serious issues as of now. I would say that a successful solution depends more on the user behind the keys than on the antivirus program that he is using.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2006/12/18/avg-antivirus-will-continue-to-be-free/feed/ 2 Antivirus Test http://www.ghacks.net/2006/01/06/antivirus-test/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/01/06/antivirus-test/#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2006 06:33:04 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=269 overclockers.com might help you in your decision. They tested Desktop and Online Antivirus solutions and give recommendations at the end.]]> Everyone seems to favor a different antivirus software and its hard to make a choice because of this. A little test from the guys at overclockers.com might help you in your decision. They tested Desktop and Online Antivirus solutions and give recommendations at the end.

They used one virus file which is about 50 megs unzipped and contains more than 10000 virii. The software that found the most got their recommendation which is not the best criteria if you ask me. There should be other factors like system resource use (never use Norton if you want a fast system), updates, type of virii found aso. But its a good test to see how your favorite AV handles this infested files.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2006/01/06/antivirus-test/feed/ 5 Astalavista Top 10 Freeware Tools http://www.ghacks.net/2005/12/10/astalavista-top-10-freeware-tools/ http://www.ghacks.net/2005/12/10/astalavista-top-10-freeware-tools/#comments Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:49:28 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=213 Astalavista Security Group have a beta page up that lists top freeware software products in various categories including Data Recovery, Anti Virus-Tools, Firewall and IDS and Anti-Spyware. The list contains some of the freeware tools that I already wrote about but also some new ones that might interest you.

Page loads a little bit slow but its worth the wait. I will check some of the tools out that I did not try out until now and if I find a gem review it here at ghacks.net.

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