Ever encounter the problem where you’re reading, writing, and publishing more than one document at the same time?  
Rhetorical question!
You know the scenario — you’ve got multiple windows open — all stacked on top of each other, you’re alt-tabbing applications to the point of arth-thumb-ritis. Even with 2 x 21″ screens and your Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor QX9770, you feel like you’re driving your Ferrari F430 Spider with the hand-break on.
Well, a quick and easy solution to this problem is to pick yourself up a copy of Desktop Rover™ v4.0. You will need multiple …

Rosebud PLM has moved to the next level with its WYSIWYG collaboration tool, Rosebud, based around Adobe PDF.
They announce that:

…”our unique method of collaboration on the Web — ‘Method and Software for enabling N-way collaboration work over the network for computers’ is officially designated as ‘patent pending’.”

and that….
Rosebud enables full lifecycle document review and supports both concurrent and independent collaboration in single platform independent software solution.

I have not had a chance to spend a great deal of time working with Rosebud myself — other than the original demo …

An interesting question — obviously given our background we ask ourselves this question all the time. Is it an email, a PDF, an HTML file, a blog or a page of blogs, what about a mySpace page — or even your facebook profile.
What exactly is a tweet? A valuable document — or as some say, a waste of time and overuse of “social networking”. Ie. Do I really care that you’ve gone to make yourself a cup of coffee, and that five minutes later you’ve finished and you’re going to …

The Microsoft Small Business Center has published 6 tips for a ‘paperless’ office. Here’s a summary:

Without paper, make sure you’re backing up files.
Realize that a paperless office doesn’t happen overnight.
You’ll need to rearrange your office.
“Paperless” often really means “less paper”.
Everyone has to buy in.
Realize that less paper is just the beginning of the payoff.

Personally I think points 1, 3 and 4 are the most important.
If you’re storing all of your important files on a computer, and you aren’t backing them up on a different hard disk, …

For the past few years I have been using Gmail to handle my work and personal email accounts. But I was starting to wonder if it could possibly handle more than just mail, document storage perhaps? A quick search on my trusty friend Lifehacker revealed the answer: yes, Gmail can indeed be used for document storage. In fact, there is a small ecosystem of extensions surrounding Gmail that make using Gmail as a document management system a real possibility for some. Here are, what appear to be, the top 3 …

Wow, if you look up personal information management (about as close as you’ll get to personal document management) on Wikipedia you’d be hard pressed to say that it’s easy to read with straight up lingo — or that it even makes much sense at all. In fact, even Wikipedia has a preface which states that,
“This article seem to speak in very vague, glittering generalities, and to contain quite a few business vogue-words…”
Well, ‘snap’, it seems it contain a cacophony of buzzwords — I’m glad I didn’t write it and I’d …

How do you find a lost document? Probably not by using the Windows Search Assistant, his name is Rover, but let’s just say he’s not exactly a greyhound…
Nope — when you’ve really got to find something in a hurry, and you’ve no clue at all where you left it, it’s time to step up and give the big boys a chance, see what Larry Page and Sergey Brin have to offer.
Possibly somewhat alarmingly Google Desktop indexes just about everything on your hard disk(s) … no matter what the format. So …

We’re always interested to hear about new developments in digital documents whether they be online, offline, xps, flash, pdf, or in fact, anything at all — even a notepad text file, if you’ve got a cool way of using it.
Our number one concern is sharing the knowledge — so if you’ve got something worth hearing about — send it on over… (links to our Debenu Contact Us page – hit the back button when you’re done).
Of course, while we like to think that we know everything — there’s a …

Over the past three years the California Research Center has been working on what they say is a radically simple approach to personal document management.
They call this “Save everything!”
Unlike most document management systems, Save Everything! is primarily focused on capturing information that runs through hardware systems, such as printers, copiers, and fax machines … with ‘zero effort’.
Their report states that:
Overall, we captured 38,384 documents comprising 152,251 pages and saved them in 12 Gbytes of disk space.
One of the key features was the method of retrieval without worrying about paths, …

We’re all well aware of just how integrated Google (and the internet in general) has become with the Western world. Almost an inseparable part of our our lives, in such a short amount of time (well, at least mine anyway). My internet connection went haywire a few weeks back, and given I’ve already burnt all my books, I felt like I was Giligan on Giligan’s Island …. by myself.
So that said, I was pretty pleased to see that Google’s has revised yet-another technical masterpiece from its labs…
“The new Google Search …

Microsoft Office users has been offered an alternative by Corel as the company has released the latest version of Corel WordPerfect Office X4.

I’ve been in the PDF business for at least 12 years now — back in the early days when Acrobat had just one toolbar (wow, that was a while ago) — and when you had to pay for a PDF reader — $50 it was. Now of course, you can’t count the number of free tools and online services to convert to PDF, view PDF, and there’s definitely no chance of counting the number of PDF files in existence.
In fact, so ubiquitious now, it’s even an ISO standard (ISO …

Although it might seem a little tedious, take the time to add tags, properties and info about a file when you want to rush it out the door — it will save you an incredible amount of time when you’re looking to retrieve it later. And it can give you a much better idea about the relevance of a document, without leafing through its contents
How do you find and edit this info? — if you can’t do it within your creation app (usually listed under ‘Properties’) — then you can …

Omtool have released an update to their free Swiftwriter plug-in for Adobe Acrobat/Reader — a one-click solution that integrates PDF documents with popular document management systems.
Improvements in the new version include:

Allows users to not only save PDF documents from Acrobat or Adobe Reader directly into a configured DMS system (fully profiled), but to also allow users to open PDF documents from those same DMS systems, namely Interwoven WorkSite, Microsoft SharePoint, Open Text eDOCS (previously Hummingbird DM), and WORLDOX solutions.
Check-in and check-out capabilities are now inherent in this new plug-in version. …

Elegant MicroWeb has just released ElegantJ PDF as one of its rosters of software ranging from time table systems, business intelligent software and Java-based libraries.