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LIFELINE
LIFELINE
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Start your own
LIBRARY
New software lets you scan, store and
retrieve your favorite magazine articles
BY MICHELLE MEGNA
organized E-scrapbook that acts as a
database for all your projects.
C O L O R - C O D E D C AT E G O R I Z I N G
O R G A N I Z E I T, R E T R I E V E I T
Once scanned in, select a chunk of the
image with the rectangle tool to create an
icon so you can visually recognize it later.
Next, enter data that will help you find the
story later — there’s an information box
where you type in the title of the magazine
or book and the name of the article. You
also click on the appropriate category and
subcategory. Next, you enter your “search”
terms, the keywords or other information
that will help you find the article.
word, such as “chair” and all articles containing that word appear in thumbnail
form on the tool bar on the bottom of the
screen. Click on a thumbnail to open the
file. To search by holiday, season or
country you select that category from the
search drop-down menu and all articles
labeled with the term “Christmas,” say,
will show up in your results. u
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You can sort stories by season, holiday
or country. In addition, there is a feature
that lets you duplicate the article so you
can cross-reference it in several categories.
Searching is a breeze. You click on the
search icon on the top of the program
and can select from “all categories” or a
specific one. For example, you can select
Home Decoration. Next, enter a key-
OTHER USEFUL FEATURES
n Book list: Remember books you want to
buy by listing them with author, publisher
and price.
n Add more art: Import images such as
digital photos already stored on your
computer
n Catalog crib notes: Instead of keeping
catalogues from which you may only want
to order one or two items, enter all the
information, such as title, season, phone
number, item number, price and item
description into the catalogue section for
later reference. Then you can toss the
catalogue.
n New subcategories: Create customized
subcategories.
n Journal: The Hopes and Dreams Journal
is a diary where you can write inspirational
entries about your life.
WHERE TO GET IT
For more information, or to order, go to
www.scanalog.com or call 1-866-8497226. Also available at Around the World,
located at 28 W. 40th St. (212) 575-8543.
The Scanalog CD-ROM, colored category
tabs and mouse pad cost $59.95.
÷ 7:30 p.m. “Angel” star
David Boreanaz, the vampire
with a soul, lets you in on the
upcoming season (which
premieres tonight at 9)
answering questions about his
character’s evil son and the
future of his relationship with
Cordelia. Keyword: AOL Live
“Leadership,” the
tenets of his hardnosed philosophy and
how he faced the
challenges of leading a
devastated city after 9/11.
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n 9 p.m. Karin Slaughter,
author of the best-selling
“Blindsighted,” chats
about her new book,
“Kisscut.” ivillage.com
MONDAY, OCTOBER 7
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8
n 7:30 p.m. Rudy Giuliani
blasts into cyberspace for the
very first time to talk about his book,
n 7 p.m. James Van Der
Beek, whose “Dawson” image undergoes
meatball surgery in
his new movie, “The
Rules of Attraction,”
stops by for questions
about playing the
drug-dealing brother
of a psychopath, as
well as about how his
relationship with Joey
will develop in the
upcoming season of
“Dawson’s Creek.”
Keyword: AOL Live
n 7 p.m. Henry Harrison, host of Home &
Garden TV’s “Help Around the House,”
chats with those seeking help repairing and
improving their abodes. hgtv.com
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9
ø 9 p.m. Shemar Moore, one of the
stars of the new WB series “Birds of
Prey,” takes mouse in hand to join
viewers for a watch & chat of the
series premiere, and offers chances
to win “Birds of Prey” merchandise.
Keyword: AOL Live
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11
n 8 p.m. Can’t find anyone to talk about
“Friends” with anymore? The “Must See
TV” chat at iVillage is for you. Friday
evening is for recapping the Thursday night
lineup. ivillage.com
Bruno Blumenfeld
Sunday, October 6, 2002
Sunday, October 6, 2002
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6
DAILY NEWS
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Here’s how it works: When you buy
the Scanalog CD -ROM, you also get
color-coded sticky tabs with topics
printed on them. When you see an
article you want to save, you simply put
the appropriate category tab on it.
For instance, if you see a story on
Halloween costumes, tag it with a
“crafts” tab. Later when you have time to
scan the story to your hard drive, you
can find the article in the magazine without having to page through it.
To make it easier to organize your
articles, Scanalog is broken down into
11 categories, with 102 subcategories.
The categories under Home Decoration,
for example, include “furniture,”
“kitchens” and “paint and wallpaper.”
Decide on a category and get ready to
import your article. Scanning is simple.
You click “scan” at the top of the page,
select your scanning source and click.
You get a preview of your article, which
can be set to low or high resolutions
depending on your needs.
EDWARD SCHNURR
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here’s no shortage of tips, advice
and guidance for women these
days, as evidenced by the magazines on any newsstand. Whether
it’s Oprah or Martha, Jane or
Lucky, Home & Garden or Travel
& Leisure, women who read the
glossies garner a lot of useful
information for managing their
lives. You can find ideas and inspiration for
anything — how to get thinner thighs,
decorate, bake the best holiday meal,
diversify your investments, find stylish
accessories and get a child to bed on time.
Rather than toss these articles, we
usually “archive” them by throwing the
magazine in an unorganized pile. The
problem is retrieving all that information
when you need it. Kim E. Goldstein suffered from such information overload,
but instead of cursing her heap of how-to
articles, she came up with an idea for
organizing the chaos.
“I needed to show my husband a
picture in a magazine I had saved and it
took me 45 minutes to find it,” says
Goldstein. “I thought ‘there should be a
computer program for this.’”
After taking a course on starting your
own business, drafting a business plan
and finding investors, Goldstein was on
her way to becoming president of her
own Brewster, N.Y.-based company.
The resulting product is a sophisticated and elegantly designed software
program called Scanalog. It lets you
store, catalog, retrieve and print your favorite articles whenever you want. It’s
like having a customizable cyber-clipping service at your fingertips.
All you need is a computer and a
scanner. Eventually, you will have an