Engadget has short article up about scanR. scanR is an interesting product service - here’s their description:

Scan documents or whiteboards, anywhere, anytime, using only your camera phone.

scanR is simple to use:
• Take a picture of a document or whiteboard with your 1 megapixel or better camera phone.
• Send the picture to scanR
• Receive the scanned image in email or fax.

I have used OCR (optical character recognition) software in the past with scans I made using my scanner, but had never thought to try it with my camera phone (which I will do this weekend). With camera phones getting cheaper and better, this could a fairly big deal for genealogists who need to copy some information but don’t have the time or means to do it on the spot properly.

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In addition to using your iPod for showing family home movies or recording interviews using one of the microphone attachments, there are several applications that allow you to store lots of useful information in text format (including genealogy records and information). The only drawback is formatting your genealogy information, but many genealogy applications allow you to export to various text formats/layouts, so it shouldn’t be a problem finding a useful layout.

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For those of you who use Google’s Gmail, you can now access it on your cell phone, according to The Register

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HEREDIS Mac X.2, a Mac OS X genealogy application, has been released.

One of the new features that maybe of interest to PDA genealogy users - you can export your individuals from your database to your Address Book, as well as events involving your ancestors to iCal, both of which you can then sync to your PDA (Palm using iSync, or Windows Mobile/Pocket PC using the various 3rd party sync programs.

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PocketPC Magazine has a review of Phatware’s CalliGrapher 8.0: Taking handwriting recognition to the next level. About a month ago we posted MobileTechReview.com’s review of this handwriting recognition software.

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Jake at Aximsite.com wrote two guides to using GPS hardware and software that you might find interesting. It’s tilted heavily towards Pocket PC/Windows Mobile, but still has more than enough information for anybody curious about using GPS in general.
Might be handy to know if your curious about plotting locations important to [...]

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