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Memeo Send: Like a digital UPS for businesses

Memeo Send (for Windows | Mac) is a brand-new application aimed at business professionals in small-to-medium size companies who frequently need to transfer large files to colleagues--including photos, videos, PowerPoint presentations, and hefty design files from InDesign and Adobe Illustrator.

Where Memeo Share (Windows | Mac), the company's free-to-try photo- and video-sharing app, focuses on gallery organization and consumer media, Memeo's impetus with Send is much more on tracking, management, and bulk deliveries.

Memeo Send opens as a simple, yet attractive desktop application that uploads files two ways: you can browse the file tree, or you can drag and drop from an open folder to the Memeo Send interface. After that, selecting recipients and jotting down an optional description are all that's left to ship out your parcel of files.

To anticipate the needs of its business users, Memeo Send integrates the Microsoft Outlook address book into the "Send to" field--just the personal Contacts portion, mind you, not a global corporate list if your company has one. You can also type or paste contacts' names by hand. We'd like a way to create new e-mail groups in Memeo to quickly access a recurring knot of recipients, in addition to accomplishing the task by creating a new Outlook group.… Read more

Digital package-tracking

Aimed at business professionals in small-to-medium size companies who frequently need to transfer large files to colleagues, Memeo Send offers an easily monitored alternative to other file-sharing means. Requiring less knowledge than FTP sharing and zipping, and more consistent follow-up than e-mail, it's an attractive way for employees to literally keep an eye on what's shared. Cross-platform Windows and Mac support, secure transfers, and limitless size restrictions also sweeten the deal, at least in theory.

Reality comes close behind. Memeo Send opens as a simple, attractive desktop client that uploads files through a file tree, or by dragging … Read more

Photo info gatherer

Picture Information Extractor gives users the ability to see hidden information within digital photos. While this program will not appeal to everyone, those serious about photography will love it.

The program's interface is incredibly busy, but manageable. By balancing a file tree, photographs, and two screens of dense information, the designers could have laid this out in a more intuitive way. Luckily, a visit to the Help file and a little experimentation should help get most users comfortable. Once we had a feel for the program, we found it incredibly fast and helpful. With all necessary information laid out … Read more

The Contact Transfer Workaround

If you read about my disappointment with the Pre's bluetooth capabilities, or lack thereof, then you'll know I've been frustrated with my contacts being on my Instinct and not my Pre.

Yesterday I did some looking around, (again) but couldn't find any cut and dry solutions. I figured tho, with both devices being smart phones I ought to be able to export from one and transfer to the other. Some how.

Here's what ended up working. … Read more

How to move an iTunes library to an external drive

Updated August 18, 2011.

If you're an iTunes user (download for Windows|Mac) whose appetite for music, movies, and podcasts is outstripping the capacity of your computer, it might be a good time to think about offloading that library to an external hard drive or a separate internal drive. If you do it right, the process is relatively simple, although the transfer time could take an hour or more, depending on the size of your media library.

To walk you through it, here are a step-by-step video and slideshow tutorial on how to move your iTunes library to an … Read more

Lacks direction

DeviceIOView is supposed to give you the ability to watch data transfers between software and device drivers. Besides producing several error messages, its overall lack of direction left a lot to be desired.

The user interface is plain and seemingly straightforward, with menu and command buttons at the top, and two panels at the bottom. We clicked on the Start button since it was the only active button. A separate window appeared with a list of active processes to choose from. But no matter which process we chose, the program became unresponsive and produced an error message. Once the program … Read more

Microsoft says it's off to a Fast start

A year ago, the ink was just drying on Microsoft's $1.2 billion offer to buy Norway's Fast Search and Transfer. On Tuesday, Microsoft will unveil its first set of joint products.

"We couldn't really be happier about the progress," said Microsoft veteran Kirk Koenigsbauer, who serves as general manager for the Fast unit. Not only has the technical work been completed to bring the two companies' products together, Koenigsbauer said, but the December quarter was a blowout for sales of Fast's existing products, which help businesses search their documents.

"Fast itself had … Read more

Bluetooth File Transfer Coming to the iPhone

One of the iPhone's more ridiculous limitations is its inability to sync with host computers and transfer files back and forth. An enterprising developer, however, has written an application that allows not only computer-to-iPhone file transfers via Bluetooth, but also iPhone-to-other mobile device file transfers.

Unfortunately, the Bluetooth file transfer application will only be available through the cydia distribution framework for jailbroken iPhones.

A video, embedded below, of the transfer tool shows files being moved from a Mac to the iPhone, and subsequently from the iPhone to a Sony Ericsson phone:

The tool appears to be based on the … Read more

Evernote's Google Notebook importer is up

Right on schedule Evernote's Google Notebook importer is now live and ready to use.

Users who want to suck in a Google Notebook entry into Evernote can now do so from the service's Web interface. All that's required is to first export any notebooks you want to move over as Atom files, then upload them one at a time into Evernote's Web interface.

What's nice about Evernote's importer is that it keeps both the organizational structure and tags intact, making it less work to reformat later on. I am, however, a little bummed to … Read more

iPhone Drag and Drop File Transfer Tool Debuts

What is perhaps the easiest-to-use computer-to-iPhone file transfer tool has debuted. File Magic, a new Mac or PC and iPhone tandem application purportedly requires only three steps:

Launch File Magic on the desktop and the handheld. The handheld application will ask you to allow the connection. Drag and drop any file into the File Magic desktop and it will be transferred over Wi-Fi to the device. You will see the progress of the transfer on both the desktop and handheld applications. Tap the folder, then the file you wish to view on the handheld.

The application is available for both … Read more