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Pathcare entrusts Olympus with all their Dictation Requirements

by Wayne Melleon 30 April 2013in Digital Voice Recorders, General, Olympus, Transcription Kits 4 comments

Pathcare, one of the largest Pathology practices in South Africa have for years entrusted Olympus with all their Dictation requirements. The working relationship between Maynards Office Technology (Official importer and distributor of Olympus Voice Recording products in S.A) and Pathcare goes back over 15 years and in that time Pathcare have continually made use of the “top of the line” Olympus Dictation Devices, DS-3000, DS-4000, DS-5000 and now moving onto the new DS-7000.

The origin of the Pathcare group of practices can be traced all the way back to 1922, coincidentally this is the same year Maynards Office Technology was founded

The Olympus DS-3500 – Versatile Multitasker

by Wayne Melleon 16 April 2013in Digital Voice Recorders, Olympus No comment

The new Olympus DS-3500 Digital Voice Recorder has certainly taken a few steps forward in relation to its predecessor the DS-3400.
The DS-3500 makes use of a 2” colour TFT LCD screen which gives the user an extremely crisp image; struggling to see the screen is no longer a concern. From a security point of view the DS-3500 makes use of 256 bit real time data encryption with a 4 pin device lock feature to ensure all data is securely stored. The new Li-Ion battery pack replaces the old Ni-MH pack and gives the device better battery life (up to

Olympus Audio SA Sales Conference – 2013

by Wayne Melleon 26 March 2013in General, Olympus No comment

A couple of weeks ago we hosted the third annual Olympus Audio SA Sales Conference at the beautiful Theewaterskloof Country Estate. It was the first time we have headed out of Cape Town for the annual event, something that turned out to be a great success. This year we were extremely fortunate to be joined by Chris Baugh and Badr Alaoui-Sossai from Olympus Europe. Their input from a product and development point of view was invaluable to our team and certainly added that little bit “extra” over the previous couple of years.

Our sales teams from our Johannesburg and Durban offices

Olympus ME-33 Boundary Microphone

by Wayne Melleon 14 February 2013in General One comment

Its with great excitement that we are finally able to introduce the new Olympus ME-33 Boundary Microphone to the South African marketplace, our first stock consignment on the new mic’s has just arrived and they are guaranteed to be an immediate success.

The ME33 is a powerful, omni-directional microphone that is purpose-built to record voices from a distance – even in the largest conference rooms. Combined with an Olympus professional voice recorder, it consistently produces audio files in crystal-clear sound quality by automatically cutting extremely high and low frequency sounds.

It also gives you scalable recording power: By connecting up multiple ME33

End of an Era – Tapes Discontinued

by Wayne Melleon 4 February 2013in Digital Voice Recorders, Olympus No comment

With the recent announcement from Olympus that all Microcassette Tapes have been discontinued it truly means we are coming towards an end of an era, the era of Analogue (tape) recording devices. With the advent of Digital Recording products in the early 1990’s many people believed these analogue machines would have been a thing of the past a long time ago, this is however far from what is the case today. Many small businesses, individuals and even the odd corporate company still have the old tried and tested tape machines performing critical day to day activities within those businesses.

Analogue tape

Olympus ODMS Free Update – R6.1

by Wayne Melleon 14 January 2013in Digital Voice Recorders, Olympus, Transcription Kits No comment

With the increased implementation of the new Olympus ODMS software (supplied with Olympus DS-7000, DS-3500 and AS-7000) it has necessitated some updates to address certain compatibility concerns of the initial version (R.6.0), this came in the form of the free update to R.6.1 towards the end of last year.

This update brought with it some exciting compatibility improvements over the initial version. Windows 8 is now fully supported under R.6.1 and something that came as a massive relieve to the S.A users was that R.6.1 is now fully compatible with MS Office 2010 64bit edition. Probably the biggest feature update to

Maynards 90th Anniversary

by Wayne Melleon 28 November 2012in General No comment

Wednesday the 21st of November 2012 marked Maynards 90th Anniversary, a pretty remarkable achievement if you consider the trials and tribulations the company has had to endure over that period of time in this industry. Since its inception in 1922, The Maynards Group has survived The Great Depression and World War 2, overcome the enormous impact of Decimalisation, the Computer Revolution and Office Automation and emerged as a market leader in Office Technology Products and IT Solutions.

To celebrate this milestone the company hosted a “high tea” event. The fairly low key and rather intimate event was attended by a select

Risks of Using a Shredding Service

by Wayne Melleon 22 November 2012in Ideal, Shredders No comment

USING A SHREDDING SERVICE IS PUTTING YOUR COMPANY’S SECURITY IN THE HANDS OF STRANGERS. IT’S ALSO EXPENSIVE.
If you’re using a shredding service, you’re putting your company’s security at risk
When it comes to protecting your company, customers, and employees, shredding sensitive data is imperative. But shredding your data before it leaves the building is the only way to be absolutely sure it was destroyed prior to someone else seeing it.

When you hand over documents to a shredding service, you are relinquishing control of your security program. A complete stranger is now in possession of your sensitive data. Would you feel comfortable

Advantages of the NEW Olympus ODMS Software

by Wayne Melleon 14 November 2012in Digital Voice Recorders, Olympus, Transcription Kits No comment

Now that the new Olympus ODMS Software is pretty much established world wide i thought it would be a good idea to put together a post outlining the differences between it and the software it has replaced the Olympus DSS Player Pro V.5. There seems to be a general lack of information on this specific topic so i hope this helps all of you out.

ODMS (Olympus Dictation Management Software) is supplied with the new Olympus DS-7000 and DS-3500 Voice Recorders as well as the Olympus AS-7000 Transcription Kit. So lets start off on the visual side of things, from a

C.T Sales Teambuilding – Theewaterskloof

by Wayne Melleon 5 November 2012in General 3 comments

So with the year rapidly approaching an end we thought it would be a good idea to squeeze in a teambuilding outing for our Cape Town sales team. We decided on Theewaterskloof Country Estate as its close to Cape Town and our MD owns a family vacation home there.

After a traditional Gatsby to welcome our newest member of the sales team we hit the road taking the lovely scenic route through Franschhoek, over the stunning Franschhoek Pass down towards Theewaterkloof. We arrived at the Theewaterskloof Country Estate around 3.30 on Friday afternoon, after unpacking we had a little time to