Do you still have an old machine kicking around in the basement or the back room, long forgotten?
For no cost and almost zero effort, you can set it up as a dedicated network appliance, using one of the many turnkey products from the open-source TurnKey Linux project.
I’m serious. You don’t need to know anything at [...]

I have to admit that I mocked the device from the outset. I sort of chuckled as I said “Boy, they really hit the ball out of the park with the iPhone, but this thing doesn’t know whether it is a laptop or a iPod Touch. Why would I want one?”
I have a nice iMac [...]

This evening I opened my email and found a most welcome message: Fujitsu has released their patched version of the ScanSnap software for Snow Leopard.
[UPDATE: I spoke too soon—they only delivered half of the goods. See below.]
[UPDATE 2: Hurray! It's fixed! The birds are chirping and the sun is shining and life is good!]
When Snow [...]

Life is too short to keep trying to figure out which side of a cable fits where. Here’s my silly little tip for simplifying one miniscule part of your life.