There really isn’t a lot of information regarding PaperStream Capture Pro out there on the Internet other than what the vendor puts out.  I invested a nice sum of money into this so I thought I’d put this out there in case someone else gets stuck.  If you are using metadata for your scans and you get to the output page where you can preview the QC and normally input your metadata into the respective fields and there are no fields there, fret not.  You have to change the view to All-In-One and this will bring the far right sidebar back where you can input your index/metadata information.

I just deployed a brand new Dell OptiPlex 7060 Tower for a client of mine.  This tower has an Intel Core i5, 16 GB of memory, 256 GB class 40 PCIe NVME SSD and Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit.

Unfortunately, there was a problem the next day after deploying it.  The client called to report that the power light would be blinking amber twice, pause and then once more which indicates  2,1 pattern.

I quickly Googled the diagnostic lights for the OptiPlex 7060 and found that this indicates a faulty motherboard.  Not good.  However, the weird thing is that if you unplug the power cable from the computer while it’s still on (computer cannot be turned off by hard powering it down by holding the power button for 3-5 seconds) and then unplugging it and leaving it off for a minute, plug it back in and turn it back on, it will power again on usually and without any issues.

I’ve run the full pre-boot diagnostics from Dell to no avail.  I’ve gotten their ProSupport tech support involved.  So far, we made sure that all drivers are up to date and the latest BIOS is installed.

I also installed a new APC UPS BR1500MS along with this computer.  I initially thought it was this that was causing it to happen, but this morning they reported that they tried unplugging it from the UPS and plugging it into the outlet and the computer still would not turn on.  It took them turning the computer back on, pulling the power cable out of the power supply and then leaving it off for a minute and then powering it back on.

There are no trouble symptoms while within Windows.  Everything runs perfectly fine and no errors or glitches.

I’m now waiting to hear back from Dell’s ProSupport team.  I’ll keep you all posted.

Update 4/8/2019:

I ended up contacting Dell ProSupport and they had me try several things, and upon none of them fixing the problem, they sent a new motherboard and a technician out to replace it. They replaced the motherboard on a Friday, and on Monday, the problem DID NOT RETURN. So, if you experience a weird issue where your new Dell OptiPlex 7060 powers on with a blinking amber light, two times and then once, you probably need a new motherboard.

I am going to make a bet with myself that this drive will die within six months.  I’ll report back in six months if the drive is still working and by working I mean being able to read disks properly.

I hadn’t seen a reputable optical disk drive/burner since the days when Plextor still made their own hardware and when Pioneer had a slot-loading DVD drive.

I’m not crossing my fingers on this one.  I’ve found that I don’t need optical drives all that much, but every once in a while I wouldn’t mind one out of convenience.

About a year or two ago I finally switched my web browser from Internet Explorer 11 to Chrome. Yes, I was an avid Internet Explorer fan, but the sluggishness and crap rendering made me finally make the move to Chrome. I actually use Firefox too, but primarily, everything is in Chrome.

One awesome thing that I really like with Chrome is that you can create a favorite folder in the favorite’s bar and drag and drop favorites into the folder. When you turn this flag to false: browser.bookmarks.openInTabClosesMenu, you can open up a folder, middle click on a favoreite and the folder stays open which then allows you to open up second, third, forth, fifth, sixth, however many links you want. Of course, you might tell me that I should just middle click the entire folder, but, what if I don’t want to open every single link inside the folder?

Besides, if Firefox can do this, Chrome should be able to too.

Another minor annoyance that Chrome does is opening up new links from the favorite’s bar and various websites open up in a tab at the very far right of your tab set. In Firefox, you can turn on a flag so that every time you open up a new favoritre, it iopens up to the right of your current tab. That’s what I want!

Testing

https://chrismenardtraining.com/post/remove-blank-page-inserting-envelope-word

If you’re like me, I cannot stand the extra page that is generated by Microsoft Word when you create an envelope to be printed. It wastes an perfectly fine piece of paper every time you want to print an envelope unless you hit print the first page only. Who does that? I don’t. I ended up using my Google-Fu and found this link above which shows you exactly how to get rid of the page. Make sure you save the file after you make the changes and delete the second page.

I’m not sure if this is placebo but I swear that the Office programs run faster and even the add-ins such as the Grammarly Add-In for Outlook runs a lot faster. I’m in the preliminary stages as I am still testing it out. But once I heard that Office 2019 was going to be installed by default as a 64-Bit application, I figured it was time to make the move.

When Apple announced that their new iPhone XS Max was going to have dual-sim capability I was ecstatic.  I finally moved my business line which is on Verizon to the eSIM.  Last night I purchased a Simple Mobile SIM card from Best Buy and setup a personal line.  I didn’t have much problems other than the activation taking a few hours.

Here is the issue I am having.  I have two phone numbers which are VOIP lines that, after X amount of rings, forward the call to my Verizon phone number.  I noticed this morning I was receiving voicemails with no missed calls.  I immediately figured it was related to the dual-sim.  I can fix this temporarily by either turning on airplane mode and then turning it off and or going into cellular settings and disabling my personal line and then turning it back on.  This will fix the problem temporarily but will eventually start blocking calls that are forwarded from this VOIP line that I own.

I am assuming it is some kind of bug and hope it is not by design.  The fact that I can fix it by disabling the line and re-enabling it leads me to believe that this is a bug and not by design.

On top of getting a 10 TB external drive that normally costs $289.99 you also get a 32 GB thumb drive.  One more thing, people have been shucking this drive and according to reports it’s a white label drive with 256 MB of cache.  It is not a WD Red drive.  However, people have also been reporting that they’ve had no problems installing it into their storage servers/NAS devices.  No 3.3 mod was required to get the drive to show up and work properly.  It’s plug and play.  If you click the picture above it’ll take you right to the Black Friday special.

So Adobe took it upon themselves to change the way you free transform in Photoshop CC 2019.  Before you’d hold shift and drag and it would keep its aspect ratio instead of having your text look too tall or too thin or too wide and out of aspect ratio.

I finally figured out what they did. The aspect ratio lock is on by default now.  If you hold shift it’s the reverse of what you would expect in past Photoshop versions.  I honestly don’t understand why they would do this as it’s been one way all these past years and versions and I am talking years!