Sometimes children think they are adults and other times adults think they are children.  Me and my neighbors had a case of the later this weekend when we built a haunted forest in my backyard for the second year.  The only real goal is to scare our kids as bad as possible, and of course they love it.  They've been talking about it for weeks now and as good parents, we can't disappoint them.

These pictures were taken at about 75% completion.  I'll try to post more from Wednesday night when we the scaring begins.  Keep in mind this is during the day... I had to go out and put the fires out late last night and it was creepy.

http://chrislcap.spaces.live.com/photos/cns!2B396B3160473E4C!1043/

  
Windows Live Spaces

I've been wanting to talk about this publicly for a long time and now that the scanners are getting ready to hit the U.S. shores it's time to let the cat out of the bag.  PFU Limited, the maker of Fujitsu scanners, and KnowledgeLake reached an agreement that puts our Connect technology in the box with the upcoming S300 scanner.  The application is called "Scan for Microsoft SharePoint" and is one of the installation options when installing the ScanSnap software.  The really cool thing is since the ScanSnap software is the same for all devices, so the ScanSnap S510/S500  can take advantage of this too.

The way it works is after you push the button to create a searchable PDF with the ScanSnap you get a quick menu with an option for saving to SharePoint.

Clicking this button launches a lightweight version of our Connect software (which you can read about elsewhere on my blog) and allows you to index and save the PDF to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Service 3.0/2.0 or SharePoint Portal Server 2003.  Like Connect 3.2 there will be an update available shortly that will also integrate with Office Live.  You can also upgrade to KnowledgeLake Connect 3.2 and get the same integration plus the features of the full version of Connect.

As for the S300, it's a great little USB powered device that can fit inside your laptop bag.  It has an ADF, scans in duplex color up to 600dpi, automatically detects paper sizes, automatically cleans up images, at speeds up to 8 ppm.

This also marks the first time we've entered into an OEM relationship as the supplier and it was a big step forward for us.  PFU was great to work with during the development, showed us great hospitality while we were in Japan, and I hope to have a long relationship with them and other similar companies in the future.

Happy scanning,

Chris

Just wanting to put up a quick post announcing KnowledgeLake Connect 3.2.  The product should be released next week, both for free trials and for purchase.  Although listed a minor release, don't let that fool you.  This product has a bunch of great new features, plus it went through a testing and QA cycle greater than most products twice it's size.  Basically it's a small package with great feature set.

The first change you'll notice is the the slide out indexing window.  In previous versions, the indexing window was always visible, creating quite a bit of blank space when nothing was really happening.  When you are actually indexing a document in 3.2 you will then see the window slide out.

We also added Office Live support, which gives users the ability save, index and edit documents in Office Live libraries, just like it was SharePoint.  You don't even have to know the location of you Office Live sites, but just simply connect using your Windows Live ID.

We also solved a problem that was causing some complaints and that was the way we allowed indexing on SharePoint 2007 sites.  We used to show the different Content Types on the tree, but now we simply show Document Libraries for specific sites and let the user select the Content Type when indexing.

If you are an KnowledgeLake Imaging Server user, we only show Document Classes for the particular site and its sub sites.  This is a major improvement over the previous version that showed all Document Classes for the entire farm.

There are a lot of other minor updates, including support for Windows Vista and 64 bit platforms.  For more information about Connect and it's features, check out http://www.knowledgelake.com/connect.  The new 30 day trial should be available next week.

Happy SharePointing,

Chris