GhostNet: Your computer can spy on you

What a scary world we live in. The University of Toronto have discovered an Internet spying operation that has infiltrated over 1,200 computers in over 100 countries. The codename is GhostNet. The malware phishes for information, and has remote access to turn any computer into a listening device.

The office of the Dalai Lama- the spiritual leader of Buddhism- suspected malware or viruses on its computers and contacted the Munk Center for International Studies to investigate. However, it was no mere malware or trojan. The operation not only spyied on the Dalai Lama, but also on the governments of South Asian countries.

Is Potfest real?

Everyone is searching for “Potfest”, the sequel to the Broken Lizard team’s 2006 movie Beerfest.

The Potfest rumors and speculation began with the Beerfest movie itself, which ended claiming that the sequel, Potfest, was just on the horizon. But that was clearly a joke just to get some publcity.

However, the amount of fan interest (especially on the Internet) in a Potfest project has made Broken Lizard reconsider the project's viability, and they are now seriously considering creating a Potfest movie to give into the demand.

In the economy, I wouldn't be suprised if it happens.

Convert paper to digital

The importance of converting physical paper documents to be scanned to digital images is paramount. It was the only way to find organizations or individuals who have saved old documents from the pre-MS Word days to finally create an immortal copy without the hassles of manually scanning documents yourself. Using state of the art document scanners and document scanning techniques, Microfilm Depot can quickly scan all types of paper documents and bring you up to 21st century speed.

Kodak Microfilm processing and duplication

Microfilm Depot provides complete microfilm processing and microfilm duplication. We process 16mm roll film, 35mm reel, and microfiche. MDepot also creates diazo and silver duplicates for backup microfilm copies. We also sell Kodak Microfilm.

Of course, if you already have your documents on microfilm, MDepot can transfer film to digital images from your existing microfilm, using our microfilm scanners.

Located near 1-95 in Florida, MDepot is Florida's most experienced microfilm processing service.

Buy Kodak microfilm

Microfilm Depot is a leading supplier of solutions for 16mm or 35mm Kodak microfilm, from reselling to duplication services. Over the past 25 years, MDepot has been helping organizations and governments archive their important documents.

Additionally, Microfilm Depot provides microfilm, microfiche and paper scanning services that will create images from your film or documents. and then provide the means to access the digital images on your computer system, saving you time, productivity and money.

Aperture cards

The digital conversion of aperture cards at Microfilm Depot can allow OCR (object character recognition) of the engineering drawing, excel spreadsheets, databases, CSV files, XML files, TIFF, searchable PDFs, and more.

If you are an engineering company, architecture firm, city, county government, or any other organization still using aperture card viewers, you need to take the next step and work with digital images by contacting Microfilm Depot for an aperture card scanning price quote.

16mm and 35mm roll film

Advanced Imaging Solutions- The Microfilm Depot offers many different microfilm services, including 35mm & 16mm Planetary Microfilming,16mm Rotary Microfilming, 35mm & 16mm Digital Image to Microfilm, 35mm & 16mm Silver Roll Film Duplication, 35mm & 16mm Diazo Roll Film Duplication,35mm & 16mm Microfiche Jacketing,Microfiche Diazo Duplication,Kodak Certified Deep Tank Microfilm Processing, and more.

With an eye on quality and customer satisfaction, it's no wonder that MDepot is the #1 Florida company in microfilm services.

Microfilm scanners

What types of microfilm scanners are used in a digital conversion? A microfilm conversion entails using a microfilm scanner to convert the analog frames to a digital image, such as TIFF, PDF, or JPEG. This is a highly specialized skill. In addition to learning how to use a Sunrise, NextStar, Mekel, or Wicks & Wilson scanner, you must be able to properly maintenance these scanners, hire labor, and create a microfilm scanning workflow with supervisors and managers.

Or you can just send your 16mm or 35mm to Microfilm Depot to get your roll film transferred to digital images.

What is microfilm?

When most people think of microfilm, they refer to 16 mm or 35 mm film. Roll microfilm is stored on reels or in 3M or Kodak hard plastic cassettes. The standard length for using roll film is 100 ft, which may contain around 2,000 frames (documents reduced in size). A 35 mm film may have around 600 images of large engineering drawings or approximately 800+ frames of newspaper pages. 16 mm film duplex film (a front and back side) or 16mm films containing checks may hold over 15,000 small documents.

The advantages of microfilm are numerous:

• Microfilming documents allows libraries or research institutes to expand access to collections without putting rare, fragile, or valuable items at risk of theft or damage.
• Obviously holding 2,500 document on a small 16mm reel saves storage space.
• Prints from microfilm can be used in legal proceedings.
  

Of course, microfilm scanning will digitize the microfilm to create a document that literally has no space/storage issues, and can be copied with no degradation in quality.

Document Imaging

What is document imaging and why is it important in today's economy? Document imaging enables systems to replicating documents used in business and government. This includes microfilm, microfilm scanning, document scanners, Computer Output Microfilm (COM fiche) and archive writers. Document imaging is also used in software-based computer systems that capture, retrieve, store and reprint images.

Microfilm Depot has been in the document imaging business since the 1980's and has evolved into an image processing center which specializes in digital microfilm conversion, paper scanning of source documents, plat map scanning, aperture card digitizing, microfiche to digital image, 16mm and 35mm film processing, and other digital conversions and Kodak microfilm processing.

Kodak microfilm

Microfilm Depot is known for creating 16mm and 35mm Kodak microfilm for you to use. Many organizations, courts, cities, counties, governments, and businesses order Kodak 35 mm or 16 mm microfilm through us. MDepot not only serves Florida counties and cities, but also is a nationwide and global Kodak reseller and microfilm company. Additionally, MDepot has extensive expertise in Kodak film processing and duplication service.

Florida paper document scanning

The document scanning market is crowded in South Florida. I've been in the business for decades, and have seen it all. For some companies, document scanning and image processing is a small portion of their business. I've seen a few guys rent expensive office space, buy three paper scanners from ebay and call themselves a company.

Digital imaging and document scanning are serious business matters, and shouldn't be trusted to amateurs who are just learning.

At Microfilm Depot, however, our clients are Miami-Dade County, federal government, Engineering and architecture organizations, mortgage and loan companies, law firms, doctor medical offices, hospitals, universities, utilities, manufacturers, aircraft, airline operators & maintenance facilities, small businesses, healthcare insurance, and many others.

We are not a fly-by-night company, and we do quality work. Our document imaging and document scanning is affordable. Your records management system, document management, and information management programs would greatly improve by working with us.

NHL trade: Daniel Carcillo and Scottie Upshall

Hockey news: The Flyers have acquired Daniel Carcillo from Phoenix for winger Scottie Upshall and a second-round pick.

If this is a payroll move, it only saves a few hundred thousand dollars. This deal doesn't make a lot of sense on the surface, which leads me to believe another trade is in the words. Upshall is a better hockey player than Carcillo, and to also give up a second round pick is weird.

Microfiche scanning

If your company or organization is working with COM fiche or microfiche jackets, you know how cumbersome it is to use a microfiche reader to retrieve a record. That's why it is so important to transfer microfiche frames to a digital image.

The benefits of converting microfiche image (TIF, PDF, JPEG, etc.) are numerous. Having microfiche images in a digital format enable instant retrieval, the ability to edit images, and make unlimited copies.

Rachel Ray FHM photo

You'd think the #1 news item today would be the Dow Jones continuing to go down; instead it was the cooking TV icon Rachel Ray FHM photo shoot (made back in 2003). For Him Magazine published the sexy Rachel Ray photos when she was 35. It's not like the Rachel Ray 2003 FHM photos contains any nude pics, but the pics are still racy.

For those of you who don't know Rachel Ray is is a television personality and author. She hosts the syndicated program Rachael Ray and two Food Network series, 30 Minute Meals and Rachael Ray's Tasty Travels.

Aperture card scanning

Converting aperture cards to digital images is one of Microfilm Depot's specialties. It all starts with sorting and inventorying the aperture cards by drawing size (usually A-E). Sometimes these sizes are typed on the header; other times the frames need to be examined. Once the cards are batched by size, they can be scanned. Aperture card scanning is a process that utilizes experienced labor, supervision, and an aperture card scanner.

The aperture card scanner is set up to name the files by the Hollerith punch code, or the images can be named sequentially. Images can be TIFF, JPEG, PDF, or other file formats and extensions. Microfilm Depot can create a database, spreadsheet, or text file wherein the filenames can be imported into your electronic drawing management system.