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A digital camera plus imaging software like Paint Shop Pro (www.jasc.com) goes a long way toward eliminating project misunderstandings. Created as a video/chat product, Netmeeting moonlights as an excellent remote control package, and it's free, unlike LapLink or PCAnywhere. --Joe Stoddard is a...
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You may be leery of the "paperless office," but the fact is, it costs less to manage documents electronically than to keep buying filing cabinets (and a place to put them). Subscribe to eFax Plus and fax paper documents from your fax machine to your own eFax number. They'll show up attached to an...
Electronic IDs, special software, and a computer workstation can track milk produced, births, cow activity, and sickness at Wolfe's PowerLine Dairy. Next time your crews resist a high-tech improvement, tell them about Ray Wolfe's cows. Wolfe, who runs Wolfe's PowerLine Dairy off RR 1 in Milton, Pa...
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An optical mouse replaces the ball and rollers of a conventional mouse with a camera chip. As the camera passes over any flat surface, it takes tiny photographs at the rate of 1,500 frames per second.
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Many of the estimating programs today can be integrated with other software operations, such as QuickBooks and project management programs. VectorWorks Architect CAD software integrates all project information into one file so that all views are updated when a change is made, reducing risk of...