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Keeping electronic files under control
Recently, we had an addition to our family. A bouncing baby Fujitsu Scan Snap 510M Scanner. This device is a double sided A4 to PDF scanner, that works perfectly with the Mac. I spent the weekend scanning numerous bits of paper and am slowly emptying my filing cabinets. So the plan [...]
Free medical resources for students and doctors
The Australian government provides a number of great resources for the medical community. These are well worth chasing up, and are useful for doctors and students. Although branded Aussie, these offer great value for practitioners outside this country, particularly if they can’t access similar information at home.
Forensic Medicine for Doctors
The Victorian Institute of [...]
Online Filesharing for Doctors
In my review of Dropbox, I suggested it could be used to share files, such as PDFs of your published articles. However, there are better methods for simple file sharing, particularly if collaboration is not so important.
Online file sharing sites offer this service. You can think of them as Flickr for files - [...]
Comparison of Papers and Bookends
After a long pause, I have started to write articles again, and therefore needed to reinstall Endnote. Then I realized that Endnote is horrible, and there is surely something better. Enter Bookends, which can import Endnote libraries, plays nicely with OSX apps, and seems the answer to all my problems. I also [...]
How medics can use Dropbox to their advantage
I recently explained how Dropbox gives me insurance for my hard drive back up. But Dropbox has other great features that can be taken advantage of. It is a free service, and doesn’t need an invitation.
Here are just some suggestions for using Drop Box:
File sharing
Each Dropbox has a public folder. Every item [...]