NeatWorks did the cloud dance......

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a few years back, i got a suggestion on here, for a paperless office solution called
NeatWorks.. it's a scanner, and some pretty cool software that is IRS approved for
tax purposes, and lets you scan all your paperwork into you computer, and sort it.

a digital filing cabinet, if you will. and it works well.

well, neat just came out with a cloud service that syncs all your info across your
computers, phone, pad, etc. it's in beta, and i just loaded it up to try it.... it works
well. it OCR's what you take a picture of, sorts it, and puts it in categories....
i'd been waiting for them to launch the beta for a couple months now, and had
just been throwing all the reciepts in a wicker basket... got it all set up, the apps
loaded, and used the iphone to scan in three months worth of receipts. ran the
battery down on the phone....

i haven't found any bugs yet.. we shall see how this works out... i'll let you know
if it's great or if it sucks.... but it's looking pretty good at the moment.

i'm not even using the neatworks scanner any more, just take a picture of the
bill with my phone, and that is it.
 
GBBOLT said:
What is the cost for these programs and does it only work on the Iphone?:?
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they will have an android app as well, but they haven't released it yet, as it's still in beta.
they haven't released a pricing structure yet. i'll post more info here when i know more.

i'm using a cloud based program called invoices2go, that works well for me... it also has an android app.....
you might want to take a peek at that, as well. it has modules you buy, and a cloud sync that works well.
it's a subscription, and every module is a la carte, and you have an annual renewal charge to use them.

it adds up, but my thought was i hoped they charged enough to be able to stay in buisness... the last thing
i wanted was to get all settled in a system, and have them go out of buisness 'cause they undercharged
like most electricians do... :p
 
For those that think electronic data storage, aka 'paperless' is so great, consider this:

I own a book printed in 1847 and every word in it is just as it was when it was printed.

I have card files going back to 1985 or so and everything written on them is just as legible as the day it was written.

What is the oldest surviving computer data I have?

Well, in '85 I had about 100, maybe more, 5 1/4" floppy discs. ALL of them are bad. NONE are useable. Binder and substrate degradation along with magnetic instabilities limit the life of magnetic media. It seems to be worse on discs due to the way they are stored. Cassette and 8 track tapes also suffer degradation, it makes the audio 'muddy' and occasionally totally deletes it.

I have hundreds of 3 1/2" floppy discs. Around 70 percent of them are now unreadable.

Hard drives? About a box full of failed ones over the years.

What about CDs? By now, all of the first generation ones are coasters. The manufacturers state a life of 20 - 200 years and admit that due to many variables affecting the life of the media they really don't know for sure.

Think about pictures. Isn't it cool to look at pictures that are 100 years old? Realize that a majority of the digital pictures you take won't make it for three generations and if you want your great-great-grandchildren to see them, you better get them printed and not with an ink-jet, either. Ink-jets are fine if protected from UV. But how do you know that will be the case for generations?
 
Very good point K8MHZ but this is software for the storage of IRS related information that needs to last less than 10 years.
 
K8MHZ said:
For those that think electronic data storage, aka 'paperless' is so great, consider this:

I own a book printed in 1847 and every word in it is just as it was when it was printed.

I have card files going back to 1985 or so and everything written on them is just as legible as the day it was written.

What is the oldest surviving computer data I have?

Think about pictures. Isn't it cool to look at pictures that are 100 years old? Realize that a majority of the digital pictures you take won't make it for three generations and if you want your great-great-grandchildren to see them, you better get them printed and not with an ink-jet, either. Ink-jets are fine if protected from UV. But how do you know that will be the case for generations?
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the points you make are accurate, and funny. and i agree with them.
something i have considered however....

at 56, when someone says "lifetime warranty", i look at my watch....
and in another 20 years, that watch might not need an hour hand.
hell, in another 4 hours, i might not need the watch at all. there are
no guarantees here of either immortality, or making it home to dinner.
life's like that.

however.... what i see happening, is that the media doesn't last,
but the data is a little more durable than that. ask paris hilton
how long she thinks her "homemade" movie will last on the net. :roll:

google has made digital information way more durable than i'd like.
and once a google spider has cached the info, deleting it at the source
doesn't change much.
 
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