The last piece for the Paperless Project

ChronoSync looks like it will handle the job of copying the scanned, OCR’d and tagged PDF from the G4 Mini to the half-terabyte array, meaning there’ll be 2 copies of everything, and a lower chance of losing the converted paper documents. One set will be indexed in Spotlight, providing a backup to searching in kip. […]

kip on digg

digg’s got a kip report, calling it an ‘excellent document organizer, with integrated scanning, tagging and thumbnail zoom.’ There’s even some Windows user envy in the comments…

Summer reading has arrived

The folks at Addison Wesley/Pearson Education have seen to it that I shall not want for summer reading this year. A couple weeks ago Brian Goetz’ Java Concurrency in Practice arrived, and if I were thinking of putting in some Google-like infrastructure, Brian’s book would likely be required reading. Brian’s book helps Java developers understand […]

All your Google base are belong to us

Tony Ruscoe used a script to sniff out Google’s subdomains last year. Here’s the list. In a post dated yesterday, he speculates about new and secret Google services available to Google ’sandbox’ accounts. In June, I speculated on the size of the user universe Google’s infrastructure seemed to be building for - more services means […]

The ‘iInterface’

Paul offered a comment on my mini-review of the kip PDF browser (now working as the front end for the gulker.com Paperless Project). He notes that he’s been won over by iTunes and iPhoto interface. They do seem to be emerging as a kind of standard interface for collections of things. Be interesting to see […]

Four days and counting

After four days we’re starting to get our arms around all of the issues surrounding the move to WordPress. The neat ‘Tiny MCE’ WYSIWIG editor that runs in WordPress’ post window (in FirefFox anyway) has a few bugs (most notably a penchant for swapping paragraph and line break tags) and using the HTML editor has […]

Paperless project advances

It was surprisngly easy to set up the Paperless Project prototype workflow we dreamed up last post. ScanSnap scans go to a folder watched by Acrobat. Acrobat opens the files, OCRs them and outputs to a folder watched by kip. kip then loads the documents into its library, and uses the OCR text to […]

Kip it simple…

This is kip, a PDF browser for Mac OS X described as ‘iPhoto for PDF documents.’ I stumbled across it yesterday while scanning for news about my* favorite PDF application Adobe Acrobat. kip appears to use Mac OS X system services like PDF rendering and components of Spotlight search to make a fast, lightweight and […]

‘Ancient’ screeds

With a little help from the Way Back Machine I’ve resurrected much of gulker.com 1997’s longer posts, most or all of which were published in The Independent (London). We have those bits sitting on hard drives in a bin in my home office. Hooking them up (anybody have a machine with a SCSI port […]

More digital archeology

Early on, we had a static home page, a front door to all that we offered. My blog then (seen below), sat under a link from this page. Curious: I did have a script that put today’s date on the page (and also changed the picture at each load from a collection of 18), but […]

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