Going Digital

How to Convert Files

Posted by on March 25, 2011 at 8:52 am

  I have a mostly paperless office, and there are a number of great tools out there that can help with the process of digitizing your papers. I recently needed to convert a .pdf file into an image file such as .png or .jpg. I found this great, FREE website which will convert all sorts [...]

Organize Folders on Your Computer

Posted by on March 24, 2011 at 4:52 pm

A reader recently asked me the following question:   “Would you share how you organize folders on your computer? I’ve got the scanner ready to go but realize I need to cleanup my files before adding all these new scanned documents to the mess. I wondered if you would share on your blog how your [...]

Back Up Photos to Preserve Your Memories

Posted by on March 9, 2011 at 9:43 pm
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It is imperative to back up photos in order to prevent losing your digital photo collection due to a computer problem. Those never happen, right? I bet most of you probably wrote down the intention that you want to preserve your memories for the future. That’s why you can’t afford to skip this step in [...]

Digitizing Photos to Preserve Your Memories

Posted by on March 9, 2011 at 9:25 pm

Digitizing photos helps you to finally have all of your photos organized in one place! If you’re like the average American, you probably have photographs in several forms such as prints, negatives, slides, and digital photo files on CDs or your computer. Unfortunately, all photographs, whether hard-copy or digital file, will degrade and deteriorate over [...]

Organize Music and Join the Digital Age

Posted by on March 8, 2011 at 9:28 pm

  It’s important to organize music because it is an indispensable part of our lives. It is practically impossible to go one day without hearing music. Most of us have the music we love scattered and unorganized in several locations such as the computer, an mp3 player, on CDS, etc. It is possible to organize [...]

Organize Computer Files

Posted by on March 8, 2011 at 9:16 pm

  Organize Computer Files for an almost Paperless Office   While I’m no computer expert, I have traveled a lot, and I know how to organize computer files. I can function almost anywhere in the world with an almost paperless office because I’ve simplified my files and how I use the internet. Many people have [...]

Organize Home Files

Posted by on March 8, 2011 at 8:48 pm

  It can be quite a process to organize home files, but once the hard work of purging unnecessary papers is done, you will feel liberated! The 80-20 principle applies to this process. To organize office files, most people only really need to keep 20% of the paper they accumulate (usually for tax purposes or [...]