Ditch Your Paper Manuals

You don't have to keep your bulky paper equipment manuals. Most manufacturers have an electronic copy of their product manuals on their support web sites. If not, you probably find it online at sites like retrevo.com - for free. Store copies on your hard drive and you're good to go. You may want to use document management software like DEVONThink (for the Mac) or Evernote to help you organize your manuals and other documents.

DevonThink Pro Office 2.0 Public Beta Released

DEVONthink - personal information management software for the Mac - has released version 2.0 public beta. This release includes the following major enhacements -

• Overhauled user interface


• Multiple databases can be open at the same time.


• Boolean search operators replacing the current search.


• Smart groups (saved searches).


• Global inbox replacing the import destinations chaos.


• Trash can.


• Undo/Redo.


• Tabbed browsing, viewing, and editing.


• Cover-flow-ish document browsing.


• Documents are stored as-is, can be edited externally.


• Support for many more common file formats.


• Support for QuickLook for displaying proprietary file formats.


• Documents can be linked to from the outside using a URL.


• Support for Skim files.


• Document templates.


• Much improved RSS feed support.


• Fully overhauled web interface.

This release of DEVONthink Pro Office requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later. This beta expires January 31, 2009. For more details visit the product page on the Devon Technologies web site.