One of technology’s greatest benefits is that it enables collaboration across different computers, offices, countries, or continents. However, sometimes that accessibility can be a bad thing: When you don’t want others to make changes to your documents, you might want …

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In the early 19th century, then-president Thomas Jefferson used a device he called a “polygraph” (no relation to the modern so-called “lie detector machine”) that allowed him to write two identical letters at once: one to send and one to …

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While tortoises have a reputation for longevity, the bowhead whale can live nearly twice as long: 200 years or more. Not to be outdone, the ocean quahog, a type of clam, is said to live over 500 years. On the …

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Enterprise content management (ECM) is a broad category for all the activities of managing the lifecycle of the “content” that flows through your organization. This content comes in many different shapes and sizes: consumer data, contracts, logos, emails, ads, and …

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A new wave of automation threatens the jobs of hundreds of workers at a time when many people are working from home. That’s not just a description of the 2020s but also of the early 1800s. At the turn of …

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Since TT Smith invented the first two-prong electric plug in 1883, people have disagreed about which plug type should be the standard. While the original type A two-prong design and type B three-prong design are the unimpeachable standards for North …

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Digitizing paperwork no longer requires a clunky scanner. Learning how to scan documents on your iPhone will enable you to scan, upload, and manage important files, even when working outside the office.  With advanced document management software like FileCenter, scanning documents …

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You have one minute and 2,000 tomatoes. There’s no doubt that you could examine each tomato and categorize them by size, weight, color, and defect, but could you do it in 60 seconds? That’s what tomato grading technology does exactly. …

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Document management is a challenge for every organization, but despite the headache, it’s an important part of conducting business. A document management system is a strategy for collecting, storing, organizing, and retrieving documents vital to accounting firms, car washes, and …

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