Free paper scanning and converting to ipaper

I thought this was interesting.

I'm using ipaper on my "Learn XLsuite" materials.

I think it's pretty cool, but this was even cooler. Smart strategy since they monitise it with adwords on the documents, but they're pretty innocuous so ... should be good.

Check out their press release (as an ipaper)

Read this doc on Scribd: Convert your paper to iPaper

Google Docs Rocks

I love these guys videos, they get down to the basics and really know how to simplify things.

This is a very good explanation of the benefits of using google docs.

XLsuite Approved for ISP edition of Google APPS

XLsuite is a ruby on rails based business management application aimed at providing a fully hosted solution that can replace the multitude of various applications that are needed to manage a business.

This is obviously a loft task for a small group of coders, so it is with great excitement that we are able to announce that yesterday, we were approved for the first stage of integration with google's hosted applications.

So now (ok not yet, but we'll tie our systems into one login very soon) we'll be able to offer an integrated solution that includes the google calendar, email, personal start pages and docs.

This is a very big deal as it will drastically cut down our production time, tackling the calendar was a daunting task to say the least, so being able to pull in the world class