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A couple of months ago, a friend requested my advice regarding digitizing works. They were requested to digitize some old contracts documents and photographs. The materials are in the Archive Office and they are not allowed to bring out the materials out from the Archive Office… and they have to do their work in a controlled room… a very small room.

I suggested to them to bring a set of computer and scanner… preferably a notebook and a portable scanner which can scan both side of the document in one pass which we called duplex scanner. They have 3 notebooks, but unfortunately they do not have portable scanner or sophisticated duplex scanner. They only have one big flat-bed scanner… about 610mm (length) x 458mm (width) x 102mm

Since the room is very small with only one table, the scanner really eat-up most of their working space… they can’t put the materials on the floor… you can’t do that to an archive materials… else it will get contaminated.

So, they have to work very careful in a cramp room… although there are 3 of them, only 2 will be able to do their job inside the room… with one big scanner!

After almost two months, their work is not even half-way done. Now I’m advising them to get this portable duplex scanner Scanshell 3000DN. It is a high-speed portable duplex scanner which offers simultaneous high image quality for both sides of the scanned document in one pass.

The Scanshell 3000DN is only 300mm (Length) x 50mm (width) x 45mm (Height)… a super small foot print for a duplex scanner… and very light too at 475grams. You do not require a power adapter for this duplex scanner; it connects one USB cable to your notebook for the power and also for the data transmission. It scanned A4 paper at 6ppm (pages per minute) in B/W and 3ppm in color. The resolution is very high at 600dpi (dot per inch) although this scanner is only about 10% of the size of a normal flat-bed duplex scanner.

This scanner is not only good for projects like this, but it will be good for anyone when they are on the move or in a very tight space… it’s a super portable duplex scanner.

Today, I had a headache… it started around 9am. So, I look for friend and went for a break. But my headache did not go away until now… normally, if I take little breakfast, I will get headache… but this time after eating a lot, it did not go away 🙁

Tomorrow, I need to wake-up early because I need to attend a seminar at 7.30am. I wanted to sleep by 11pm… but now, it’s almost 12am… I need to wake up by 6am tomorrow…

In the office today, I was visited by a System Integrator… he wanted to introduce Lotus Domino… and he knows I’m pro Microsoft… LOL so he said, he might not have a chance… but I said, it’s OK, I’m open for anything for now… 😉 Maybe we talked too long, my headache did not go away…

Then when I check my blog after diner… cool I got a Direct PPP offer… 😛

OK… I better go to sleep now…

Although we are in the world of technological gadgets around us, we are still unable to run away from conventional stuff around us.

For instant, while reading document or letter, suddenly you really need to have a copy of one or more pages of it. It’s not in digital format… you can’t simply cut and past it like in Microsoft Word… it’s in conventional format… PAPER!!! And you definitely can’t simply tear the pages you like! How about if you need to fax it to your office or clients while you are on the move? And it’s very urgent!

You will definitely need a gadget… a portable gadget to take with you while you are on the move. Gadget like the portable scanner Scanshell 2000NR from Scanshell Store will definitely solve this kind of problem!

This portable scanner is not even close to your jumbo 2,500 grams flatbed scanner sitting in your office. We are talking about portability here… it do not require power because it gets its power from the USB connector to your notebook. The weight is only 390 grams and it scan A4 paper at 6 ppm (pages per minute) in B/W or Color… impressive!

The footprint?… Just look at the picture… the length is 11.5 inch, that’s the length of an A4 paper; the width is only 2 inches and the height is 1.7 inches.

This small gadget has 600 dot per inch (dpi) resolutions… if you are not sure how sharp is that, I can actually scan a letter at 75-150 dpi and email or fax it to you, and you still can read or print it back! With 600dpi, you will not have problem scanning photos and print it on A3 paper or doing OCR (optical character recognition) to convert the scaned documents into text or Words format for editing purposes.

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WOW… when I woke up this morning, it’s cooler… guess what, it rained last night!!!… around 10pm… it was not that heavy… coz I did not even realize it was raining… 😉 but it was enough to cool down the weather throughout the day… yes!!! I hate the heat and haze!!!

And on my way back around 7pm just now, it was raining heavily…. yipppeeee… FREE car wash… 😮

In fact it still raining out there right now… but not that heavy… at least it will clean away the haze… and I hope it will raint till next morning… 😛

If I were given a chance to travel for holiday to another country, the country I really like to visit right now is Canada. Why holiday in Canada? Because it has one of the greatest natural wonders of the world, Niagara Falls, and some other wonderful places like lakes and mountains. But when we have to bear all the cost for the holiday, sometimes it will turn us off… dream will be just a dream… because cost for flight and accommodations are not cheap.

But with the internet, we do have options to search for cheaper cost for our dream vacations. Dialaflight for instant has many offerings for flights, hotel & travel idea… not for holiday or flights to Canada alone but worldwide holiday destinations.

Dialaflight is a leading independent UK travel company. By just visiting their website, you can find tons of travel information. You can search all the things you need for your dream vacation like cheap flights, hotel, car hire and many other stuff… any type of holiday you like, be it weekend breaks, beach holidays, spa holiday…

Booking is easy, just call and you will be speaking to their travel consultant for all kind of holiday offers… they will ensure all your requirements are fulfilled, they will make sure your tailored dream holiday is fulfilled!

And guess what? Winter Olympic 2010 will be held here in Canada… in Vancouver to be exact! Cool… I should start saving from now on and get Dialaflight to fly me there… lol

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Heard about the launching of GoShop! recently but did not really bother about it until I receive an email about it recently….

After going through the website… I’m very impressed with its presentations… the graphics are fantastic… I’ve seen other sites created by the webmaster… I won’t deny that they can really present a very impressive graphics… really cool…

Anyway, I still have some comments on this site…

If I’m a tourist… I would like to know the location of the shopping complexes… I would like to know its location in relations to the airport, sea port, main bus station, main taxi stand and hotels… that will give me better idea on how to reach the place or where to stay… address alone will not help me to plan my journey… I mean it can, but it will make me do some ‘seeking’… even if I’m a local from another town, this will definitely helps. So it’s good to shows all the hotels, bus stations, taxi stands, airport or any other land marks for every particular shopping town or city… tourist landmarks will be cool too.

Their advertisements are very informative and very attractive… but it lack one important information… again, direction map to the shop… address or phone number are not enough…

I like eating… everyone else likes to eat… yeah!!! lets enjoy seafood… they are cheap here in Sabah… the Taiwanese, Japanese, Koreans and everyone likes them too… so, it will be nice to see more restaurants with its direction map presented here… info like what are they serving and their specialty will be good… types of restaurant is important too… Korean, Japanese, western etc…

My comments are… what I see and feel while surfin the site… I’m sure they will improve in no time… contents are lacking for now but I’m sure there will be more in the future… and hopefully they will become the centre of reference for shopping heaven in Sabah.. or Malaysia… or maybe ASEAN… why not kan… buli bah tu… 😉

Imagine, every time when you come back from exhibition, conference or meeting, inside your pocket is one inch tick of business cards of your new contacts. I do collect some business cards every time I attend a conference or meeting. Because there are some many of them, sometimes I misplaced some of them after sometimes, especially contacts that I do not communicate immediately after.

It will be a great help if you have tools like Scan2Contacts business card scanner and software for Microsoft Outlook. This business card scanner from Scanshell-Store is very unique because all you have to do to scan a card is place the card into the scanner tray and the card is automatically scanned and a new contact record is created in your Microsoft Outlook Contacts. That will definitely save you loads of time… and preventing you from loosing your contacts.

Since Scan2Contacts is fully integrated with Microsoft Outlook, you don’t have to have any other software to collect and manage your contacts. It will extract complete and accurate data and images from the business card in few seconds into you Microsoft Outlook Contacts. With the small footprint, it is very potable and do not require external power. It gets its power directly from the USB port on your notebook or PC.

Scan2Contacts is great for traveling sales persons or exhibitors at trade shows who can scan their attendee business card immediately and create a contact list which will make it easier for them to do follow-up. Scan2Contacts also excellent for going into paperless office and get rid all those business cards pile on your desk.

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Since my visit to Kundasang on July 19, Sabah haze is getting bad… while I was in Kundasang, the temperature is not very cold… I can sleep without shirt! Even the mountains are covered with some bluish smoke layer!

When I went to Mimpian Jadi on August 6, the weather was so hot… till my cough gets bad with sore throat… but I’m recovering now.

Today, visibility is getting bad… and very very hot…

Picture direction towards mountains (interior): Brownish haze are clearly visible at the background… foreground are Wisma Kewangan and Sabah State Museum.

Picture direction towards sea (top & bottom): Can you tell what at the background? That is Gaya Island… and the building is Wisma San Hin (SEDCO) near Cetre Point.

Close-up of Wisma San Hin… Gaya Island almost not visible…

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Once again, the space shuttle Endeavour lifted off to space on Wednesday, August 8, 2007 from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Their mission is to the International Space Station

One of the crew on board is a former teacher who first trained with crew of the ill-fated Challenger in 1986.

Endeavour will dock for seven days with the ISS. When it does a rendezvous pitch maneuver on August 10, while it approaches the ISS, its belly shows some scary image on it.

NASA reported there is ice damage on Endeavour’s belly causing a gouge on its heat shield… oooo man… not again… According to NASA, a laser inspection has found a gouge estimated to be 3 1/2 inches long and just over 2 inches wide.

If you ever watched sci-fi movie before… the two photos are just like junk space-ship floating on space un-man…

Lets hope everything will be OK… and hope Endeavour will land on earth safely.