How to Have the Worst File Organization Ever
In the day-to-day workplace grind, it's easy for good file organization to become an afterthought. Over time, it's easy for bustle, lax policies, and carelessness ...
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Where is The Cloud? Where's My Stuff?
Posted on Nov 17, 2016
In 1997, the former CEO of Apple, the late Steve Jobs, described a process internal at Apple wherein he would upload his personal files to a server, and from any computer, log in and access those files. The benefits, Jobs describes, is that he made his files accessible anywhere, reclaimed hard drive space on his personal computer and, because the server was faster than his computer, it was actually more efficient to do things this way. Technically, this process had actually been very common since the early days of mainframe computing in the 1950s, but Jobs expressed hope that it would be available to the average customer for use in their everyday life in the future. Steve Jobs was describing what we now call iCloud. What is the cloud? Although it's unclear exactly where the term "cloud" came from, it's been around for at least a couple decades. Today it's thought of, perhaps, as an invisible nebula hanging over our heads from which we pluck our cat's photos and videos when we need them. ...
What is Document Indexing?
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When I first started working at A&A Office Systems, I'll admit, I didn't know a single thing about copiers, printers or MFPs. Three years later, I like ...
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Read moreThe Benefits of In-House Production Print
It's easy to think production print is the realm of marketers, graphic artists and designers alone, but it's not just branding that demands a powerful ...
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